Talk:Mass No. 2 (Bruckner)

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The first draft of the article is mainly what I could glean from the de: and ja: branches of Wikipedia. I haven't looked at a score yet, but I've listened to it several times. James470 (talk) 01:36, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Version 1 of 1866

Version 1 of 1866, the version which was performed at the celebration of the Votive Chapel of the New Dom in 1869, has been first edited in 1977 by Leopold Nowak, i.e., more than 100 years after it was composed.

As can also be seen in the in the first version of the symphonies, the 1866 version is somehow the raw material, not yet "unsweetened". In Version 2 of 1882 a lot (about 150) of quite small changes, mainly during the Credo and the Benedictus, have been introduced. The most of these changes are hardly audible without comparing the scores of the two versions.^[1] However, some changes are more obvious, as in the mid-section of the Credo: other phrasing and instrumentation, among others the postlude after "et sepultus est" by the woodwinds instead of by the brass instruments, and in the mid-section of the Sanctus: three additional "sanctus" by the female voices in unison.

There is only one out-of-print recording of a music-school performance of the 1866 version.
An excellent live-performance by Hans-Christoph Rademann with the RIAS Choir (23 June 2013) has unfortunately not been publicly issued. Hans Roelofs has provided me with a recording of Rademann's performance for private purposes (DutchDragon HR 777). A recording of it (Charter Oak COR-1904) is also put by John Berky in the Bruckner archive.^[2]
Hopefully performances of this "forgotten" first version of the Mass will be publicly available in the future. --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 09:34, 18 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: "DutchDragon" is the label of Roelofs' home-produced compact discs, and "Charter Oak" that of Berky's home-produced compact discs.^[3]

When looking in my archive, I have In the meantime found a second live-performance of the 1866 version of the Mass in E minor by Hans-Christoph Rademann on 13 August 2014 in the Kloster Eberbach during the Chornacht „Das Licht gegeben„ at the Rheingau Musik Festival 2014. --Réginald alias Meneerke bloem (To reply) 12:12, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Critical discography by Hans Roelofs

[2] The Bruckner archive

[3] Labels not listed in the Bruckner Discography

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