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Bruckner Supreme: Haitink and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra

By Sarah Batschelet, 22 August 2016
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Reviewed at Culture and Congress Centre: Concert Hall, Lucerne on 20 August 2016
Programme
Bruckner, Symphony no. 8 in C minor, WAB 108 (Nowak Edition)
Performers
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Bernard Haitink, Conductor
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Sarah Batschelet
Sarah Batschelet
Sarah Batschlelet, long based in Switzerland, took a degree in Art History from Smith College, Northampton, Massachuetts, and lives as a freelance writer and editor near Zurich.