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[email protected] 4 Lulworth Close, Halesowen, B63 2UJ 01384 566383 VOLUME SIXTEEN, NUMBER TWO, JULY 2012 Associate Editor: Crawford Howie In this issue: On First Hearing a Bruckner Symphony Keeping True by Simon Spero Page 2 The emotional, even spiritual, response we have to the music of our Bruckner, Mahler and anti-Semitism favourite composers often leads us to feel that, at some level, we by Ken Ward Page 3 On the track of Bruckner’s ‘railway have a similar understanding, something profound in common with obsession’ by Ken Ward Page 7 them which their music has inspired and cultivated within us. Sometimes it becomes necessary to resist a temptation to extend this Sir Simon Rattle & Berlin Philharmonic bond of assumed empathy, a temptation that would recreate the Bruckner Ninth with SPCM Finale: composers and their music in an image more closely related to our An Unfinished, and Very Imperfect own preferences, and thereby moderate our reliance on the facts of Dialogue by Dr. John A Phillips Plus Concert and CD review Page 9 biographical and manuscript sources. But the intention to remain true to Bruckner, whilst a simple Bruckner String Quintet thought, is a matter of some complexity when the attempt is made to Bruckner’s Quartet and Quintet: put it into practice, open to a variety of interpretation, and beset by Context, Performance, Recording literature littered with misinformation - hence, one might say, the need by Dr.