Claudio Abbado conducted his final concerts at the Lucerne festival in August last year. The programme consisted of two unfinished symphonies – Schubert's eighth and Bruckner's ninth – and this disc ...

Symphony No. 00, 'Study Symphony' Linz Bruckner Orchestra Markus Poschner, Conductor Capriccio’s release of the first and last of Bruckner’s symphonies sees the completion of the cycle conducted by ...

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 ...

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 October 1944 Wilhelm Furtwängler’s ambiguous, much reviled association with the Nazi regime was reaching its end; in January 1945 he finally fled. The valedictory intensity of this famous recording ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...