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"He wrote the same symphony nine times".
I was coming from a tour with the Vienna Philharmonic where we had done the same symphony.
This concert marks the fifth occasion the orchestra has used the organ; the first was in 1989, when the same symphony was performed.
There's an old jibe that Bruckner did not actually write nine symphonies (10 if you count Die Nullte), he just wrote the same symphony nine times.
Here, as part of a welcome three-week minifestival of Mendelssohn, Mr. Masur leads the orchestra in the same symphony, two overtures and the Violin Concerto, with Sheryl Staples, the Philharmonic's superb principal associate concertmaster, as soloist.
But by way of a Mahlerian amouse-bouche: here's Mengelberg's Dionysian Mahler 4, van Beinum's classicism in the same symphony, Haitink's combination of the visionary and the structural, also in the 4th, the clarity and wildness of Chailly's 7th, and the sheer epic intensity of Jansons's 2nd.
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As for links with predecessors, that same symphony, although it has just two movements, is scored for chamber orchestra and lasts less than 10 minutes, has something of the grand melodic sweep Webern admired in Bruckner.
In that same Symphony No. 10, as in all of his greatest orchestral works, music dramas and chamber pieces, Shostakovich's reliance on jagged rhythms, tonal ambiguity, wrenching formal surprise and hefty doses of expressive dissonance creates a language at least as "modernist" as Bartok's and one that is certainly never simple.
The glut -- dozens of versions of the same Beethoven symphony or Tchaikovsky concerto -- came much later.
It will be playing the same Fifth Symphony at its Blossom festival this summer.
Set to the Prokofiev symphony of the same title, "Classical Symphony" is dedicated to Peter Pestov, a revered teacher of Mr. Possokhov's.
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