Southbank Centre: Royal Festival HallBelvedere Road, London, Greater London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Programme
| Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791) | Symphony no. 39 in E flat major, K543 | |
| Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896) | Symphony no. 4 in E flat major, "Romantic", WAB 104 |
Performers
| Philharmonia Orchestra | |
| Herbert Blomstedt | Conductor |
The renowned Herbert Blomstedt returns to the Philharmonia. Having rejected his First Symphony as ‘too wild and daring’, the Second as ‘nonsense’ and ‘unplayable’ and the Third as ‘unperformable’, the Viennese instantly embraced Bruckner’s glorious Fourth Symphony with its irresistible combination of flowing lyricism, spiritual intensity and earth-shaking orchestral eruptions.
