Golly.
Tom is a closet Bruckner fan.
Whodathunkit?
I thought you detested the overblown grandiosity of romantic large orchestral?
It has its place Jerry but at heart I'm a renaissance/baroque/classical chamber music and vocal junkie. There's not a huge amount after 1850 that floats my boat though an exception would be a good Bruckner or Mahler symphony.