Bruckner ~ journal ISSUED THREE TIMES A YEAR AND SOLD BY SUBSCRIPTION Editorial and Adv.ertising: telephone 0115 928 8300 2 Rivergreen Close, Bramcote, Nottingham NG9 3ES Subscriptions and Mailing: telephone 01384 566 383 4 Lulworth Close, Halesowen, West Midlands B63 2UJ VOLUME SEVEN, NliMBER THREE, NOVEMBER 2003 EDITOR: Peter Palmer MANAGING EDITOR: Raymond Cox ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Crawford Howie
[email protected] [email protected] In This Issue page Concerts in Vienna, B"inningham, London &Nottingham 2 Compact Discs Bruckner, Rott, Wetz 6 MWY Wien Scores Update &Limited Offer 12 Speech (1939) to the German Bruckner Society by Furtwangler 13 Confessions of a Discographer by John Berky 22 Change = Progress? by Arthur Butterworth 26 Letters 28 Chronicle &Diary 32 Silhouette by O. Bohler Furtwangl er by E. Orl ik Copyright in all pieces remains with the author (Collection Bernard Thilie) Articles on pp. 26-7 are taken from the New Queen's Hall Orchestra newsletter 2 ll VIENNA. Bruckner's Symphony No.1 in C minor (IILinz version ) in the Musikverein. Vienna Symphony Orchestra/Marcello Viotti. Saturday 10 May 2003 IN 'I'HE WAKE of a surfeit, over the last eighteen months, of conductors trying to outdo each other in slow speeds and soul searching interpretations of Bruckner's symphonies, it was refreshing to hear Marcello Viotti's view of the First, played by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. He achieved what was, for me, just the right speed in each of the four movements. There was no excessive "pulling out ll of phrases, nor was there any rushing or over-dramaticism, yet the performance was colourful and alive, and thoughtful where necessary.