Well one year and around 400 pieces of music later this was the last of my regular shares of “my music” on Facebook\u2026.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
It all started with the challenge to share favourite album covers and the final one I shared was Bruckner 9. That was conducted by Jascha Horenstein \u2013 choosing a version to share was quite difficult. The interpretations \u2013 and particularly the tempi chosen \u2013 are quite diverse. I personally like Bruckner to be given space and do enjoy the Celibidache recordings \u2013 but I thought they might be too slow for some. (there is an interesting video of him rehearsing the adagio if anyone is interested)<\/p>\n
So I have gone for this one conducted by someone who made numerous recordings of Bruckner\u2019s music.<\/p>\n
The ending of this symphony almost always results in a prolonged silence before any applause \u2013 someone did suggest that I had chosen a lot of music for my funeral in these shares \u2013 I can think of worse endings than this symphony to go out to \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n
edit : on posting this in my blog I found that the original video was no longer available – this is not unusual. So I have substituted one of the Celibidache interpretations instead.<\/p>\n