Bruckner’s monumental symphonies can be intimidating, so members of the Berliner Philharmoniker give their tips for the Bruckner listening experience.
A short listening recommendation
The intimate strangers
Bruckner and Mahler were titans. Both men were symphonists whose works were unprecedented in their length. They had neither predecessors nor successors. They were close and simultaneously distant. A closer look at the lives of these two disparate symphonists.
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The Misfit
Anton Bruckner was always an outsider in Vienna’s polite society. Who was this “mifit” and what motivated him? In search of the evidence.
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Fanning the flames
Today, concerts featuring Bruckner’s symphonies are among the Berliner Philharmoniker’s seasonal highlights, but this was not always the case. On the Bruckner tradition of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
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