Bruckner's symphonies have become a central part of the orchestra's repertoire, and their performances have attracted growing audiences. In fact, the average attendance rate for the composer's ...

as both composers included these accelerated sections directly after expansive first movements and immediately preceding languorous Adagios. Bruckner typically placed these swifter movements in ...

You don’t turn to Bruckner the man or the musician for the light touch. His worship of Wagner verged on the neurotic for, really, there is something worrying about his debasement before the composer ...

In the second half is a major work by 19th Century Austrian composer Anton Bruckner. Music Director Daniel Hege says listening to Bruckner’s music can be a life-altering experience.

Lasting over an hour, Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony has the composer’s signature gestures: lots of dotted rhythms, fanfares alternately solemn and celebratory, pacing bass lines, Wagnerian ...

‘Perhaps the greatest of all recordings of the work‚ spacious‚ involved‚ profoundly human’: so wrote Richard Osborne in 1994‚ referring to Carlo Maria Giulini’s EMI recording of Bruckner’s Symphony No ...

a connection to the classicism of 18th- and 19th-century German-Austrian master composers, particularly Wagner and Bruckner; an intellectual beauty of structure in the spirit of Berg; and a ...

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Lyu's relationship with Bruckner's music is built on admiration for its vast, profound nature. He describes the composer's symphonies as the "pinnacle of Romanticism". These works, with their ...

The life of the 19th century Austrian composer, famous for his grand symphonies. Donald Macleod focuses on Bruckner's time in Vienna, contrasting self-doubt with epic orchestral works ...