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Bruckner - Symphony No. 8 / Mehta, Israel Philharmonic |
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Listening to Bruckner's monumental Eighth Symphony, here running some 88 minutes, is like scaling Everest. The summit doesn't come into sight until well into the third, slow movement, then it's not until the third approach via other vistas that we arrive with a clash of cymbals at the peak. En route there are diversions into Alpine meadows where it's not too fanciful to suggest edelweiss is in flower. Zubin Mehta recorded Bruckner's Ninth Symphony early on in his career, but neither his name nor that of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra has been much associated with the Austrian composer. In this 1987 performance, Mehta pleads and cajoles his orchestra to give their all, but ultimately the demands of the music and the unsympathetic acoustic of the Alte Oper Frankfurt defeat them. One senses that the conductor's forward pacing of the music takes its toll on the precision within the huge waves of sound Bruckner launches throughout the work. --Adrian Edwards
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