Vienna Philharmonic Plays Bruckner’s Ninth

One of the world’s great orchestras, the Vienna Philharmonic concludes this year’s triptych of ninth symphonies with the grandest of them all. Dedicated to God, Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 is the extraordinary product of a career’s experience and a decade’s labour – an unfinished swansong that confronts darkness even as it grasps towards heaven in music the composer himself thought ‘the most beautiful I have ever written’. The concert opens with Berg’s Lulu Suite, a distillation of the composer’s tragic opera into a heady and sometimes violent outpouring for orchestra.

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