| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 20-May-2012 Barbican Centre: Hall | A Bruckner 5 of Integrity and Nobility from Haitink and the Concertgebouw |
 Bruckner moved to Vienna in 1868 to take up the post of Professor of Organ, Harmony and Counterpoint at the Conservatory. Seven years later, in 1875, he was still ruing the day he had left his local city of Linz: only one symphony had been performed, his income was meagre and he envisaged going to debtors’ jail, “where I can descant to my heart’s content on my folly in ever coming to Vienna.” But the day after writing that letter he began his Fifth Symphony, starting with the Adagio and its sorrowful oboe theme.Read full review... | |
| 9-May-2012 Konzerthaus: Großer Saal | Eliahu Inbal rescues Wiener Symphoniker's Mozart and Bruckner |
 The Wiener Symphoniker has suffered recently from more late conductor cancellations than most orchestras, and things reached a peak last season when their chief conductor Fabio Luisi pulled out of a string of engagements in order to substitute for James Levine at the Met.Read full review... | |
