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 ...

As Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin are packing their bags for this week’s concerts in London, here is a DVD of them playing Bruckner at home in Berlin. This recording of Bruckner’s last, ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic; Deutsche Grammophon 139011). Even a non-Brucknerite is likely to be temporarily converted by Karajan’s strong, sonorous reading and the Berlin Philharmonic’s rich ...

After nearly a decade, Bruckner was still working on his Ninth Symphony when he died in 1896. The sense of agony and struggle, especially in the massive first movement, can make this work feel ...

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 ...

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