Steve Schwartz wrote:

>Okay.  I've never really warmed to Bruckner.  Vanilla and chocolate.

Brahms called them symphonic boaconstrictors.  I'm just trying to listen
to the 4th (Haitink at the Proms) apparently it was inspired by Lohengrin
- some of the harmonies have a tinge of it.  Haitink suggests they are
more like an Austrian landscape.  I managed 18 minutes until Bruckner
seemed to have wandered to off into a musical labyrinth where I have left
him looking for a way out - 'Excuse me is this the way to the end of the
first movement?  I was hoping to meet Wagner around about here'.

Tim Horwood