Bruckner has never sounded quite so upbeat. Conductor Jaap van Zweden began his career as a violinist – at 19 he was the youngest-ever concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, just down the ...

Claudio Abbado here magnificently revisits Bruckner’s First Symphony, but with a twist. In the Nineties, Abbado included the First in his Bruckner cycle with the Vienna Philharmonic, recorded for ...

Bruckner and Brahms produced their official First Symphonies, both in C minor, in their 40s. Bruckner, the elder by nine years, got there first, in 1866. But it's his which is the more adventurous ...

Whatever has Hindemith’s Pittsburgh Symphony (1958) – the sixth and last he wrote – done to deserve such wretched treatment over the years? The piece has been ignored in the concert-hall, and few ...

BR Klassik präsentiert in einer 9 CD-Box Aufnahmen von Anton Bruckners 9 Symphonien mit dem Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks unter der Leitung von vier internationalen Bruckner-Experten: ...

The Cleveland Sound is what it says on the box, but this is a strange way to celebrate the Dohnanyi regime. While the conductor has often seemed at his most inspired in the opera pit, his time with ...