Satoshi Akima <[log in to unmask]> writes dithyrambically on Bruckner:

>It is with a certain rapturous sense of wonder that I have just listened
>through to the new recording of Boulez conducting the Bruckner 8th with the
>Vienna Philharmonic.  I must say I did not ever think I would ever get to
>hear this performance, but here it is.

"Zeus choosed the Eagle", the ancient Greeks would have said; I think
Boulez made a good choice when he picked up Bruckner 8.  The symphony, as
I see it is perhaps the peak of all his creative output.  All inventions
that can be found in his row of symphonies he also used in the 8th into
perfection.  Still it is paradoxically so, that this symphony wasa returnth
to his very origin symphonic ideas, as presented in 00, 0 and 1.  But when
speaking about Bruckners early symphonies, I wonder if he ever was so
infernalically critical to the earlier symphonies as to the eight.  But
perhaps Mr Satoshi could entlighten us on this point?...

Mats Norrman
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