The facebook format\/environment does not lend itself to deep\/meaningful\/philosophical conversations and in my music links I have (on the whole) limited what I have shared to shorter\/lighter\/easily-digestible \ud83d\ude02 music.<\/p>\n
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That means that there are a number of pieces of music that have not yet made an appearance despite being very high on my list of favourites. So – on mammoth Mondays I am going to share a few of those that have been previously omitted. of course you can still just listen to bits of it but there are some larger scale pieces of music that I think are worth spending some time appreciating.<\/p>\n
When I shared album covers (way back then before I got this idea….) the very first one was Bruckner’s 7th Symphony. No matter how often I listen to this – when it finishes I am always in a “better place”! I bought this record from a little 2nd hand record shop in Glasgow – it was a complete experiment as at that time I had heard none of Bruckner’s music so I had no preconceptions at all about this work. Ever since then – and that must have been over 50 years ago…. – this symphony has been a favourite.<\/p>\n
I do not have a top ten or top 20 or whatever because the “best” music is always dependent on context, but I don’t think there is ever a wrong context for this symphony. The recording that I have linked is the same one that I bought all those years ago – I still have the record. (and I still almost expect the break in the second movement when you had to turn the record over \ud83d\ude02)<\/p>\n
….. and yes, this recording does have the much debated cymbal clash – whenever I am faced with a percussion part with not much to do I always console myself with “at least I am not the cymbal player in Bruckner 7”!<\/p>\n