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Monumental und raumflutend, ohne langweilig oder kitschig zu wirken: ein Geburtstags-Jubilar begeisterte das Publikum der Symphoniker in der Konzerthalle Bamberg mit Bruckner und Saint-Saëns.

Seong-Jin Cho und Giullaume Jehl zeigen einen perfekten Schostakowitsch, doch manchmal sollte man der Kühnheit der Komponisten mehr vertrauen...

Die Wiener Philharmoniker begeistern unter Christian Thielemann mit Schumann und Bruckner.

Mit einer packenden Interpretation von Schumanns Cellokonzert erwies sich Julia Hagen als würdige Gewinnerin des UBS Young Artist Award. Und die Wiener unter Christian Thielemann sorgten mit Bruckners Erster für Aufsehen.

Vladimir Jurowski graces his return to the Concertgebouw with a ravishing performance of Mozart's Symphony no. 40 in G minor. 

Athletic accounts of Beethoven and Bruckner bring OIympic agility to the BBC Proms.

En medio de su apretada agenda, el director Christoph Eschenbach programó su retorno a La Coruña para dirigir la Sinfónica de Galicia, en esta ocasión con un programa que combinaba la pintoresca Sinfonía española de Édouard Lalo la Primera sinfonía de Anton Bruckner. El papel solista estuvo a cargo de Iskandar Widjaja.

A program that didn't look too exciting on paper was made special by an outstanding interpretation. 

Daniel Barenboim and the Berlin Staatskapelle start a traversal of the Bruckner numbered symphonies, a first for Carnegie Hall

For his guest appearance with the Berlin Konzerthausorchester last weekend, Russell Davies was joined by violinist Chad Hoopes for performances of Glass and Adams alongside Bruckner’s First.

It is often interesting to hear performers one knows well in a different setting, and this concert was a case in point for me. The London Philharmonic Orchestra have performed often in Eastbourne since the 1930s and at the Congress Theatre for the past seventeen seasons, but this was my first visit to the venue. Based on this concert, I am hopeful that it will not be my last.

All three works in this programme were written by composers in mid-life - late 30s, early 40s - and all worked within the Austro-German tradition, but one would be surprised to find they had much else in common. The performances this evening did, however, manage to forge an unexpected congruence between them.Pintscher’s ‘orchestral study’ towards Osiris set the agenda.