Event listing: Bernard Haitink conducts Bruckner | Royal College of Music: Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall | Tue 26 Jun 2012 at 19:30

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Royal College of Music: Amaryllis Fleming Concert HallPrince Consort Road, London, Greater London, SW7 2BS, United Kingdom

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Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896)

Symphony no. 8 in C minor, WAB 108

Performers

RCM Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink	Conductor

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Haitink and the outstanding RCM Orchestra play Bruckner 8

Ken Ward, 27th June

The opening theme of Bruckner’s Symphony no. 8 is announced in the depths of the orchestra; with the precise rhythm of the main theme of the first movement of Beethoven’s 9th and something of the character of the Siegfried motive from Götterdämmerung, it contains energy and heroic aspiration, but also a harmonic instability that gives it a searching and unsettled quality.

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