I thought people might be interested in this. If you are, go and purchase the CD. This RU-vid version has been deliberately encoded at low resolution.
Bruckner left substantial sketches for the Finale of his 9th symphony, with the entire movement mapped out. Some fully orchestrated, some in sketch. Sadly a number of the pages of this sketch were distributed as souvenirs on his death, and still not all have been recovered. The extant sketches have been the subject of work for the last 20 years by a few different sholars in an attempt to provide some kind of satisfying performing edition. This track is the latest of such attempts, which has been developing by these scholars since 1983. The 2008 revision includes the latest finds of missing pages of the sketches by Bruckner.
I find this attempt at a performing version of the sketches to be very exciting, and in no way takes away from the quality of the sublime slow movement immediately before it. However, in parts 2 and 3 I personally find some of the writing still a little confused, particularly in the articulation of the fugal section.
This second part of the movement is in the greatest part a speculative orchestration of some bare sketches (often just one instrumental line linking fuller-orchestrated sections). A significant number of bars of this are also guesswork, based on repetetion of previous material and including some material from discarded sketches. A small part is freely composed to link the material together.
This is the Musikalisches Akademie des Nationaltheater-Orchesters Mannheim conducted by Friedheim Layer in 2008.
3 мар 2011
