Anton Bruckner

...nod to Alex the Droog, and the soundtrack is filled with the triumphal pomp of 19th-century Europe's greatest hits: Wagner, Verdi, Bruckner. This is what Peterson hears in his head - his own private Gotterdammerung. "Bronson'' is mostly a...

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...and imaginative figures as Jonathan Harvey or, closer to home, Nigel Osborne. And to talk of Boulez's dismissal of Schumann and Bruckner, without acknowledging that Boulez conducted Schumann years ago, and more recently performed several...

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The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and guest conductor Lawrence Renes filled Friday evening's program with the grand sounds of Anton Bruckner's "Symphony No. 8." Playing the composer's 1890 revision of the symphony, Renes gave a performance of...

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...at Symphony Center was more a preview of great performances to come than a fully realized achievement. When Haitink has paired Haydn and Bruckner in the past, the two composers' visions played and even fed off of each other. This week, the...

In this article: Bernard Haitink, Ninth Symphony, Daniel Barenboim, and Chicago Symphony Orchestra

...with vintage photos of LA crime scenes. Cops with fedoras and overcoats. Sprawling corpses. Dark stains on the sidewalk. Beethoven and Bruckner glower across the living room at a black and white photo of two boxers mid-punch. It's 3pm but the...

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...unique fusion of refinement, passion and preternatural sensitivity. While next week's concerts hold more of Haitink's out-of-this-world Bruckner and Haydn, this week he ventures into other periods with Ravel and Mendelssohn. Ravel's 1918...

In this article: Bernard Haitink, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Orchestration, A Midsummer Night's Dream, First World War, Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, William Shakespeare, and Igor Stravinsky

...- created difficulties on set. His directing work has also extended to the stage. He has directed work from Strindberg, Goethe, Bruckner and Kleist in Berlin, Munich and Vienna. In 2006 he took on Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Paris...

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Navigation - link to other main sections from here London Philharmonic Orchestra/ Eschenbach at the Festival Hall Bruckner's Sixth Symphony presented by Christoph Eschenbach and the well-oiled machine of the London Philharmonic...

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...Arab music that came across the Mediterranean with the Moorish conquest of Spain and the music of gypsies from the north and east. Anton Bruckner's symphonies present two barriers to symphonic audiences. First, they are long. His Symphony No....

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...part of the X Avant New Music Festival; Sun. 8 p.m. ($20 at door). Music Gallery, 197 John St. Orchestra Toronto opens the season with Bruckner's Symphony No. 4 in E-flat Major, Sun., 3 p.m. with pre-concert talk at 2:15 p.m. ($35/$30...

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