TheDecameron
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I have some terrible confessions to make but what about you?
Brahms and Bruckner.
I was interested that some folk find it difficult to find a tune in Bruckner. These days I find Bruckner is full of tunes...
My 72 year old self is now very glad my 22 year old self liked the sound enough to persevere until the music made sense on so many levels.
I've come to the conclusion that the greatest music would take more than a lifetime to get to know and even then it always keeps something in reserve. It's much the same with painting, it doesn't matter how many times I look at, say, a Cezanne, Rothko or Bridget Riley it always seems to have something fresh to say. Talking of Bridget Riley and whilst in waffle mode I do find a correlation between the instrumental music of Bach and Riley's later works. It's almost as though they both found the natural order of the world and expressed it in their chosen medium.I always considered Bruckner's music to be rather a meandering mess that never quite reached a satisfying conclusion.
I'm a few years older than you, and it's only recently that I've started to make sense of it, and really enjoy it.