Davies’s Ninth begins rather oddly. With the first 96 bars played extraordinarily slowly as a drama within a drama, the performance only really begins to move forward when the shackle of D minor is ...

The London Symphon Orchestra under Nathalie Stutzmann give an exemplary performance of Bruckner’s last symphony, rounded off with the composer’s 1883 Te Deum It’s probably true to say that Stutzmann’s ...

Royal Concertgebouw O / Haitink/ Chailly/ Jansons/ Jochum/ Sanderling/ Tennstedt/ Mehta (RCO Live, nine CDs) In advance of Bruckner’s bicentenary, a roll call of tremendous historic interpretations is ...

I’m midway through exploring a cycle of symphonies by Heinz Winbeck, a German contemporary composer very much in the Bruckner tradition. I’ll report back next week, but, as a stopgap, here’s an ...

In his first official concert as chief conductor of the BBC SSO, Thomas Dausgaard chose an intriguing way to mark his territory: the Scottish premiere of a completion of Anton Bruckner’s unfinished ...

Few composers thought bigger, or longer, than Bruckner, who constantly revised his colossal works – in the case of this final symphony, spending nine years writing and still not completing it before ...

This is no ordinary account of the Ninth Symphony that Bruckner left in an incomplete, three-movement state on his death in 1896. It includes a23-minute, 653-bar account of the finale, as ...

What is at stake in Bruckner’s unfinished Ninth Symphony, writes Volker Hagedorn in an excellent booklet essay, is nothing less than life itself. Some Brucknerians might go further, echoing Bill ...