When a recording of Symphonies Nos 1 to 9 — the entirety of Anton Bruckner's symphonic cycle — was released by NCPA Classics ...
Bruckner typically placed these swifter movements in the third position, though not in his monumental Eighth Symphony, whose structure is echoed in the Ninth. This symphony’s opening—marked ...
You don’t turn to Bruckner the man or the musician for the light touch. His worship of Wagner verged on the neurotic for, really, there is something worrying about his debasement before the composer ...
Released on the NCPA's 17th anniversary, the recording also coincided with the 200th anniversary of Bruckner's birth. This complete cycle, the pinnacle of Lyu's decade-long journey with the China NCPA ...