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DARK SECRETS: Bruckner | Vintage Vibes

Imagine a world without Wagner … it’s not easy, but let’s try

As the Bayreuth festival turns 150, we look at the composer’s huge and enduring influence, and wonder what might have happened to classical music in his absence?

The Guardian - UK

From penalties to Pavarotti and Beckham to Bruckner: classical music and football are closer than you might think

As the World Cup gets underway, we look at the music that has soundtracked the beautiful game – and the composers who have loved it

The Guardian - UK

Vienna Philharmonic/ Welser-Möst review – mighty ensemble strike gold with Bruckner

The Austrian legends glided through Mozart and Tchaikovsky but found grand and powerful direction in Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony

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Vienna Philharmonic at the Royal Albert Hall: big hitters bring sonic beauty

4/5 The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra take to the Proms and - eventually - show their masterly talents on Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony

Evening Standard

Bruckner & Gesualdo: Motets album review – less might be more for Monteverdi’s Gesualdo

The choir’s first release since the departure of its founding conductor filters the composers through a 19th-century lens but things can at points feel a little unwieldy

The Guardian - UK

From exquisite Elgar to razor-sharp Cage: our classical recordings of the year

A piano prodigy burst onto the scene, studio opera recordings were few and far between – and the year’s most rewarding discs were the ones that ventured beyond the mainstream

The Guardian - UK

Kirill Petrenko finds leading the Berlin Philharmonic means 100 opinions and 100 expectations

In his sixth season as chief conductor, Kirill Petrenko is leading the Berlin Philharmonic on its 25th U.S. tour and second in three years

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Bruckner: Symphony No 7 album review – Jurowski’s live recording is one to cherish

Marking the centenary of the composer’s birth, this recording of the 1944 Haas edition sees conductor and orchestra combine to create an effortless natural flow

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Yuja Wang x Hockney; Proms 61 & 62: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Rattle – review

Surrounded by giant projections of her friend David Hockney’s art show, star pianist Yuja Wang pushes the boundaries of what a concert can be

The Guardian - UK

Proms 55 and 56: Berlin Philharmonic/Petrenko review – spellbinding magic

Over two evenings of music by Schumann, Smetana and Bruckner, the Berlin orchestra and their chief conductor Kirill Petrenko played with sumptuous mastery

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BBC Prom 14 at the Royal Albert Hall: Beethoven, Bruckner and Tüür review – dynamic and playful

Soloist Yunchan Lim brought the swing to this captivating blend of orchestra and piano

Evening Standard

First Night of the Proms review – a thrilling adventure ride

A seemingly safe ticket – Handel, Bruckner, Clara Schumann and Beethoven’s Fifth – became in the hands of Elim Chan and the BBCSO a dazzling, joyous launch night

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Stutzmann review – her monumental Bruckner is also light on its feet

Singer-turned-conductor Nathalie Stutzmann presented Bruckner’s unfinished Ninth with his Te Deum, making an eloquent and majestic statement

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Bruckner: Symphony No 3 album review – mountaintop moments of human intimacy

Conductor François-Xavier Roth’s period-instrument sensibility is all over this beautifully recorded live performance of a much tinkered-with work

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The week in classical: Das Rheingold; Lucerne festival review – all about oil

From an all-consuming performance of Barrie Kosky’s fierce new Rheingold to a stage invasion in Lucerne, musical excellence and the climate emergency went hand in hand

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Christian Thielemann leads Vienna Philharmonic US tour

Christian Thielemann is leading the Vienna Philharmonic’s six-concert U.S. tour as another symphony of his Bruckner cycle with the orchestra is released on CD

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Colin Currie Quartet; Liam Byrne; Southbank Sinfonia; Bournemouth SO/ Wigglesworth

Percussive thrills on all sides and live electronics 17th-century style meet a woodwind Mozart masterclass and Bournemouth’s answer to Cate Blanchett…

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Hans Rott, Symphony No 1/Mahler review – friends but not equals

His friend Mahler called him a genius, but there’s little in this recording – fine though it is – of Rott’s first symphony to persuade us of that

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The week in classical: Proms 2 & 5; Attila; Thomas Kelly – review

Star violist Lawrence Power and John Wilson’s orchestra dazzle at the Proms. Elsewhere, fireworks on the stage and podium in early Verdi, and a young pianist astonishes

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Philharmonia/Blomstedt review – flow and glow as one one of wonders of our age remains in control

In Mozart, Maria João Pires was an ideal partner for Blomstedt’s attentiveness to pulse, phrasing and dynamics; his unified and unshowy approach brought lightness and clarity to Bruckner

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CBSO/Gražinytė-Tyla review – assured Bruckner and arresting Tchaikovsky mark the end of a Birmingham era

Symphony Hall, BirminghamIn her last UK concert as the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s music director, Gražinytė-Tyla showed just what a fine and nuanced Bruckner interpreter she really is

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Bruckner: Symphonies Nos 1 and 5, etc review – Nelsons’ buoyant reading lets the lyricism flow

The conductor’s latest journey through Bruckner (and Wagner) is typically extrovert, allowing the music to flow naturally

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