Honoring important classical composers on the anniversaries of their births and deaths may not be the most imaginative tradition, but it is a longstanding one. And 2024 marks the bicentennial of ...
‘I never had a more serious pupil than you,’ remarked Bruckner’s renowned teacher of counterpoint, Simon Sechter. Certainly, no one could ever accuse Bruckner of being frivolous and quite how this ...
When a recording of Symphonies Nos 1 to 9 — the entirety of Anton Bruckner's symphonic cycle — was released by NCPA Classics ...
In Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's recently published Echoes of a Lifetime (Macmillan), there is a provocative reflection: ''Although Eugen Jochum was usually thought of as the authentic Bruckner conductor ...