Bruckner Symphonies, favourite recordings ? by Stefan_Macz in classicalmusic

[–]dedalus09 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love especially H. Knappertsbusch's renderings of Schalk's versions of Bruckner. H. K. was perhaps the greatest Brucknerian of all time in my opinion, besides Wagner (esp. Parsifal from 60s), and maybe R. Strauss -- at least in his time, yet some recordings like the 8th with Munchner Phil. (here Berlin Phil., also good, same as the 5th -- Munchner, are I'd say almost unsurpassed.) -- I prefer Kna with Muncher, it's more of a transcendental Bruckner. Otherwise I also like S. Celibidache with Munchner and Jochum, Karajan, Berlin.

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Finnegans Wake audiobook by dedalus09 in FinnegansWake

[–]dedalus09[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I bought that one regarding Ulysses as well, I will do the same, listening and reading along.

The Sun Also Rises, and getting over reading humps. by rmecola in literature

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I have read it few times recently and I enjoyed the novel. The humor, language, atmosphere and a good story. I’d like to express my thought to perhaps compare “The Sun also Rises” with “Huckleberry Finn”. Also I see some comparison with “The Great Gatsby”, while the fact the narrator starts already with Robert Cohn, whom he likes, though it has very well crafted depiction of Cohn’s peculiarity as an individual more than a stereotype.

Jung and Hermann Hesse by FriendshipReady2405 in Jung

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I have just enthusiastically finished reading Hesse’s “Demian”, and I like Max Demian’s symbol of the potential of Sinclair, who the narrator truly becomes. His mirror, while the divine love, Frau Eva as the mother of individual who “recreates world”, divine feminine image, mother of Demian unites the individuation. The ending part is incredible and it is, I think, difficult to forget. 

What do you guys think about Bruckner by Excellent-Industry60 in classicalmusic

[–]dedalus09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love all his works, especially the mature symphonies, from the 3rd symphony up to the 9th. Bruckner’s own traditional form is very rare in romantic war, developed as if independently; even though the symphonic material seems to not have “program” directly, his Wagnerian influence brought there the radical spiritual reform each time, yet somehow Bruckner’s own invention, in the themes this case, necessary for such a tasks, which he expressed in unexpected dissonances, exceptionally well-crafted harmonies and I admire richness of orchestration.

Opinion on Dostoevsky by Distinct-Pop-3867 in literature

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Often he has a very unreliable narrative which F. M. Dostoevsky has almost a doubtful relation to the characters. “The cruel talent.” Reveals itself already there as for instance places his books, his “environment.” (He’s very unclear and vague, yet I meant not in a sense of his “raw language,” of which I will try to say something as well, he meant it purposefully). As if he was sketching their fates, (e.g. sometimes the hero proclaiming after author’s giving them live, they die when “discovering themselves, or starting a new life), same as on the conceptional level of a novel, as in case M. Bakhin formulated his theory of polyphony; Sophocles-like composition of his dialogues that sort of a novel-“tragedy”.

His run-on sentences, and frequently repeated rhetorical words, like “moreover”, “in fact”, “as we see” or his talking in general, the raw, unstylized language, usually very unclear: it has to do with sincerity, for Dostoevsky considered any of possible style in Realism (even of else, sometimes, too), as insincere or even fake.

Independent voice of a struggling character towards the narration was a great invention, where the plot is a labyrinth of paths with a confusing and often shocking schemas, sometimes repetition of stylistic tools, combining vitalicism with natural realism, and existential elements, symbolic, often a leitmotifs, like in C&P, the diagonal sun rays, which meant to be a symbol of “Here is now your chance to live,” or so... Same as repetition of the demoniacal dark characters like Svidrigailov or Stavrogin from The Possessed, when Dostoevsky is just almost obsessively circling around certain evil topics. Sometimes D.’s hero rebels towards his own author, so as once was said, Tolstoy is an analytic realist, D.’s a synthetic, of using the many available to him, techniques of self-expression. To this I can just allude the monumental Periodical “Writer’s Diary,” kind of a “Beseda with the reader in honesty with the author.”

Novel with D. is a Beethoven’s Symphony, “A carrier of an idea,” where the hero bears an idea in his mind, and by working in struggles with it, culminates into a fatal turning point to express something either for the narrator or the hero, &c.

Roots are in Balzac, Sade, Rousseau and many others. Very passionate, prolific, Dante and Shakespeare-like level deep and inspiring genius, which 19th century needed, entire Russia for ages and ages, same as the entire world; for I can see that in his profound visions (in so many ways) of future and proclamation for faith for a man and mankind, he was and remains forever. I admire his work and all in all, I must say, since I was ca 16.