Great Performers: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

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Barbican HallSilk Street, London, Greater London, EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink	Conductor

Tickets: £15 / 25 / 40 / 50 / 65.

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A Bruckner 5 of Integrity and Nobility from Haitink and the Concertgebouw

Ken Ward, 21st May

Bruckner moved to Vienna in 1868 to take up the post of Professor of Organ, Harmony and Counterpoint at the Conservatory. Seven years later, in 1875, he was still ruing the day he had left his local city of Linz: only one symphony had been performed, his income was meagre and he envisaged going to debtors’ jail, “where I can descant to my heart’s content on my folly in ever coming to Vienna.

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