Eric Schissel ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >Composers whose last works seem to me to be not only great but to explore >strange, perhaps unique "territories" include Beethoven, Zemlinsky, >Sibelius, Holmboe, Brian, and perhaps Robert Simpson. ... To which I'd add Bruckner: the first movement of his 9th is certainly other-wordly. Or, as somebody put it, he exploresall the gothic possibilities of D minor which the first movement of Beethoven's 9th outlined. Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]