Word: bruckner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bernard Haitink, 31, will soon take over as one of two permanent conductors of Amsterdam's famed old Concertgebouw Orchestra. Haitink has guest-conducted widely throughout Europe, is best known for his coolly controlled readings of Beethoven and Bruckner. A childhood violin student at the Amsterdam Conservatory, Haitink "felt the need to have a broader instrument," studied conducting, was soon picked as assistant conductor of the Dutch Radio Philharmonic. In frequent guest stints with the Concertgebouw, Haitink has already replaced the light, silvery Eduard Van Beinum tone with a darker, deeper glow reminiscent of the way the orchestra sounded...
...AFTERNOON CONCERT--Handel-Suite No. 6 for Harpisichord; Bruckner-Symphony No. 3; Beethoven-Piano Trio op. 1 no. 1; Honegger-Sym. No. 5; Bachby Joyce Smith...
Although The Song of the Earth consists of six songs translated from the Chinese, Mahler himself thought of it as his ninth symphony, refused to call it that only because of his fear that, like Beethoven and Bruckner, he would not live long beyond the ninth. The work is roughly a catalogue of the emotional ages of man, beginning in "life's sweet-scented morning," and concluding with the peaceful resignation of "The Farewell" ("My heart is still and waits for its deliverance"). Walter's intense performance last week wonderfully illuminated the score's leafy detail...
...slight man, Mahler wrote giant-sized, tempestuous music that echoes his countryman, Anton Bruckner; on first hearing, a Mahler piece usually sounds like far-out Brahms with Wagnerian delusions. To Mahler, the symphony was the ideal musical form; he composed no chamber music, no music for solo instruments, no small-scaled choral pieces; even his famous song cycle, Das Lied von der Erde, calls for a full orchestra. Of the ten symphonies he wrote, only the First and Fourth are of normal length; the rest run on for as much as 90 minutes and employ vast orchestras. Symphony...