Event listing: The Bruckner Project | Royal Festival Hall | Tue 17 Apr 2012 at 19:30

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Southbank Centre: Royal Festival HallBelvedere Road, London, Greater London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

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Programme

Symphony no. 8 in C minor, WAB 108 (1890 ed. Haas)

Performers

Daniel Barenboim	Conductor
Staatskapelle Berlin

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Barenboim's Bruckner 8 at the Southbank falls short of its promise

Ken Ward, 18th April

Of Bruckner’s mighty symphonies, the Eighth is the mightiest. Dedicated to Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (although at one stage the repeatedly lovelorn 63 year old composer sought to dedicate it to a young girl he met at the opera, Marie Demar) Bruckner’s hints at its programme speak of such things as ‘the annunciation of death’ in the first movement and the grand meeting of the three emperor

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