Anton Bruckner
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Aided by eloquent playing, Andris Nelsons was alive to the composer’s uncertainty in a lithe and at times mesmerising performance
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Compiled from Abbado's final concerts at the Lucerne festival last year, this recording captures the transparent beauty of the occasion, writes Andrew Clements
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Leave your baggage behind with performance artist Marina Abramović, find Hansel and Gretel in Lancaster, enjoy Bruckner with Haitink and grab a final chance to see Twelve Angry Men at the Garrick
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There's no doubt Anton Bruckner was an oddball, a man with an unhealthy interest in dead bodies and teenage girls. But, writes Tom Service, the composer's obsessions and terrors also gave us some astonishing music
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With Bernard Haitink at the helm, the LSO bring clarity and light to Bruckner's unfinished symphony, writes Fiona Maddocks
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An electrifying evening in London is perfectly preserved in this 1962 recording of Herbert von Karajan and the Vienna Philharmonic, writes Stephen Pritchard
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Conductor Otto Klemperer's versions of six Bruckner's symphonies are fluent and purposeful, with a faultless sense of symphonic architecture, writes Andrew Clements
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It's not often you hear cries of "encore" after a Bruckner symphony but in Runnicles' hands the Eighth flowed superbly, writes Guy Dammann
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Barenboim is never overawed by Bruckner's cathedral-like Eighth Symphony, an approach that made for an organic, spirited and rich interpretation, writes Martin Kettle
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Nézet-Séguin proved once more that he is an outstanding Bruckner conductor, even if 'completing' the composer's Ninth with the Te Deum did not convince, writes Martin Kettle
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Tom Service: Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra's astonishing performance of Bruckner exemplifies mathematician Roger Penrose's idea that time goes round in loops
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If you think you Bruckner's too heavy, try his second symphony played by a chamber orchestra, writes Fiona Maddocks
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Bruckner completists might just find some curiosity value in this downscaled version, writes Andrew Clements
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Osmo Vänskä shows that Anton Bruckner's last thoughts on his most popular symphony deserve to be heard, writes Andrew Clements
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In the rush of excellent new Bruckner recordings - Mariss Jansons conducting Nos 3 and 4, Paavo Järvi the seventh - one stands out, says Fiona Maddocks
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Whether Bruckner devotee or newcomer, snap this up, says Fiona Maddocks
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Tom Service: Anton Bruckner's startling mini symphony managed to win the respect of his nemesis, Brahms - and it's a great starting-point in every way
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None of these come within touching distance of the best performances already available, says Andrew Clements
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One is an anti-clerical sceptic best known as a baroque specialist, the other a deeply religious 19th-century composer of epic grandeur. Philippe Herreweghe explains his love of Bruckner
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(Lucerne Festival Edition)
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(Deutsche Grammophon)
Topics
- Classical music
- Claudio Abbado
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Bernard Haitink
- Proms
- Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Daniel Barenboim
- Proms 2012
- Simon Rattle
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Hallé Orchestra
- Art
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Proms 2009
- Scottish Chamber Orchestra
- Andris Nelsons
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Space
- Performance art
- Physics
SCO/Ticciati review – expansive, revelatory Bruckner