The Vienna Philharmonic plays Bruckner
Live at the 蜜芽传媒 Proms: The Vienna Philharmonic perform music from Berg's opera Lulu and Bruckner's Ninth Symphony with conductor Franz Welser-M枚st.
Live at the 蜜芽传媒 Proms: The Vienna Philharmonic perform music from Berg's opera Lulu and Bruckner's Ninth Symphony with conductor Franz Welser-M枚st.
Presented by Martin Handley, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Alban Berg: Lulu Suite (Rondo; Variations; Adagio)
c. 8.05pm
Interval: The writer and musicologist Katy Hamilton talks to Martin Handley about why so many composers have struggled to write their ninth symphonies.
c. 8:30pm
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D minor
Vienna Philharmonic
Franz Welser-M枚st, conductor
One of the world鈥檚 great orchestras, the Vienna Philharmonic concludes this year鈥檚 triptych of ninth symphonies with the grandest of them all. Dedicated to God, Bruckner鈥檚 Symphony No. 9 is the extraordinary product of a career鈥檚 experience and a decade鈥檚 labour 鈥� an unfinished swansong that confronts darkness even as it grasps towards heaven in music the composer himself thought 鈥榯he most beautiful I have ever written鈥�. The concert opens with Berg鈥檚 Lulu Suite, a distillation of the composer鈥檚 tragic opera into a heady and sometimes violent outpouring for orchestra.
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Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 9 in D minor
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Franz Welser鈥怣枚st.
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- Mon 8 Sep 2025 19:30蜜芽传媒 Radio 3
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