Blomstedt & Bruckner

Something special happens every time Herbert Blomstedt returns to the orchestra he first conducted in 1955 - not least when he has the music of Anton Bruckner with him. No composer can connect the human with the spiritual as Bruckner does, and no conductor can match Blomstedt's experience in releasing the power and dynamics of the music. Bruckner regarded Symphony No. 6 as his boldest work - a shorter, brighter and more rhythmically alive work than its sister symphonies, often described as his Cinderella symphony. Here the composer's legendary Gothic structures acquire a special elegance - calm, tender, sublime and noble. The concert opens with music that also comes from Austria but is inspired by London. When Haydn visited the English capital in the 1790s, he was received as the greatest musician in the world. His gift to the Londoners was a series of symphonies, the last of which bears the name London - a work of immense charisma, humour and immediacy, created with the simple purpose of delighting and entertaining. Programme: Haydn / Symphony No. 104, London Bruckner / Symphony No. 6

• Dirigent: Herbert Blomstedt

RECORDINGS OF THE WORKS

Joseph Haydn: Symfoni nr. 104 i D-dur, Hob. I:104, «London»

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Anton Bruckner: Symfoni nr. 6 i A-dur, WAB 106

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