Bruckner: Symphony no. 5

Considered by many to be his symphonic masterpiece, Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 5 represents the culmination of the first period of his time in Vienna. He had relocated to the city in 1868 from Linz, where he had been the organist at the ‘Old’ Cathedral and produced many of his fine choral works.

Curiously, Bruckner never heard this symphony performed by an orchestra. This performance, using instruments of the type that would have been familiar in Vienna at the time, gives us the rare chance to hear the symphony its composer imagined.

We continue our blossoming relationship with Adam Fischer, acclaimed for his performances and recordings of the complete symphonies of Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms and Mahler.