There is a considerable tradition of – if not outright derision so at least tut-tutting of the Zeroth Symphony. Not the least by the great and sympathetic Bruckner scholar and expert Robert Simpson ...
Seven conductors share what it’s like to lead Anton Bruckner’s monumental symphonies, and why they resonate today. By David Allen Christian Thielemann led the storied orchestra in three concerts at ...
Here’s a parlor game of sorts: Pick your Bruckner First Eleven. How does that work? Easy enough - there are only a few rules to follow (lest you make some up of your own). Take every one of Bruckner’s ...
A symphony by Anton Bruckner (1824-96) sounds like nothing else, except perhaps another Bruckner symphony. The joke is that Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, and though that isn’t exactly ...
As the Cleveland Orchestra and music director Franz Welser-Möst prepare to perform and record Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 in C Minor this month at Severance Hall, it's worth taking a moment to explore ...
The Los Angeles Philharmonic is not known as a Bruckner orchestra. No American orchestra other than the brassy Chicago Symphony is. The Austrian composer’s main body of work, his nine spiritually ...
Agnes Bruckner plays a role in two major mysteries this spring — on A&E’s The Returned, which revolves around inexplicably resurrected dead folk, and ABC’s Once Upon a Time, where she soon will recur ...
If you’re a bit of a skeptic on the subject of Bruckner’s symphonies — and let’s speak frankly here, some of us are — the Third Symphony is not the piece that’s going to help you see the light. It ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Jakub Hrusa and the Bamberg Symphony have released a new recording of them all. By J.S. Marcus The Austrian composer Anton Bruckner died in 1896, but ...
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