The orchestra's journey with Bruckner began in 2016 when the musicians first performed his symphonies in concerts. At the ...

[Photo provided to China Daily] For conductor Lyu Jia, the music of Austrian composer Anton Bruckner is more than just a series of symphonic works — it is a journey into the depths of human ...

You don’t turn to Bruckner the man or the musician for the light touch. His worship of Wagner verged on the neurotic for, really, there is something worrying about his debasement before the composer ...

Honoring important classical composers on the anniversaries of their ... And 2024 marks the bicentennial of Anton Bruckner’s birth. Thus his sprawling symphonies—those ineffable “cathedrals ...

Bruckner was a devout Christian whose deep, simplistic faith informed every note he wrote, yet it was into his religious choral music that he poured his innermost soul. So it’s sometimes difficult to ...

as both composers included these accelerated sections directly after expansive first movements and immediately preceding languorous Adagios. Bruckner typically placed these swifter movements in ...

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In the second half is a major work by 19th Century Austrian composer Anton Bruckner. Music Director Daniel Hege says listening to Bruckner’s music can be a life-altering experience.