Composer

It remained his last major orchestral work, which Johannes Brahms completed in 1887—a "final act of stupidity," as he announced to his publisher Simrock with characteristic irony. Brahms dedicated the Double Concerto for Violin and Cello to the violinist Joseph Joachim, with whom he had been friends for decades. This friendship had recently reached a crisis, however, and to break the ice between them, Brahms sent the score to his friend. Joachim gratefully accepted the offer; thus, a rapprochement was established, and the furious finale proved to be a veritable celebration of reconciliation between the two. A uniquely well-coordinated duo, the siblings Tanja and Christian Tetzlaff, come to Lübeck for this double concerto.

6th  Symphony Concert

Music and Congress Hall Lübeck

EPSG:4326

Francisco del Pino + Beethoven & Bruckner

Troy Savings Bank Music Hall

Music for the Soul

Holy Rosary Catholic Church

The USC Thornton Symphony presents an evening concert in collaboration with the USC Thornton Choral & Sacred Music department.

USC Thornton Symphony

Bovard Auditorium (ADM)

After devoting three years to his Eighth Symphony, Anton Bruckner was beyond devastated when it was rejected by the conductor he described as his “artistic father.” But instead of giving up, he made many cuts and revisions. Five years later, when it finally had its premiere in Vienna, it was a triumph.

Søndergård Conducts Bruckner

Orchestra Hall

Be there for the Atlanta Symphony debut of one of the most acclaimed artists of our time, Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. The supreme virtuoso plays a hard-hitting, high-octane concerto by Beethoven. Maestro Stutzmann harnesses the Herculean forces of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for a gargantuan heavyweight – Anton Bruckner's Sixth Symphony. "[Bruckner shows] Stutzmann at her best...making the music sound especially bold and raw" (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).

Stutzmann Conducts Beethoven + Bruckner

The Woodruff Arts Center

Guest performance

Rudolf Oetker Hall

Sunday Matinee 03: Andris Poga & Rafael Fingerlos

Great Festival House

BNY Classics showcases unforgettable performances by your Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, featuring timeless masterpieces, thrilling premieres, and renowned guest artists.

Bruckner's Eighth

Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts

Phenomenal horn player Felix Klieser takes the spotlight in tonight’s concert. He’s the perfect soloist for Richard Strauss’ swashbuckler of a concerto, and even that is just the upbeat to what comes next, as Thomas Søndergård and the full RSNO embark on one of the greatest adventures in 19th-century music; Bruckner’s colossal Eighth Symphony. It’s been compared to a cathedral in sound and a mighty mountain range. Either way, you simply have to hear this breathtakingly beautiful music live. 

Felix Klieser Plays Strauss

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Phenomenal horn player Felix Klieser takes the spotlight in tonight’s concert. He’s the perfect soloist for Richard Strauss’ swashbuckler of a concerto, and even that is just the upbeat to what comes next, as Thomas Søndergård and the full RSNO embark on one of the greatest adventures in 19th-century music; Bruckner’s colossal Eighth Symphony. It’s been compared to a cathedral in sound and a mighty mountain range. Either way, you simply have to hear this breathtakingly beautiful music live.

Usher Hall

Sir Donald Runnicles, a leading conductor of late Romantic repertoire, joins the Philharmonia in its 80th birthday season for one of Bruckner’s great symphonies.  

Two movements of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony are marked ‘Feierlich’ – ceremonial – and indeed a live performance of this 80-minute work can feel like a musical ceremony, even a spiritual journey. Writing in the 1920s, an American critic described it as ‘a world of deep breaths and far vistas and profound experience.’ 

Runnicles conducts Bruckner 8

Southbank Centre

Join WNO Conductor Laureate, Carlo Rizzi, the award-winning mezzo-soprano, Justina Gringytė (La forza del destino, Roberto Devereux) and WNO Orchestra for a concert that will win both hearts and minds.

Carlo Rizzi & Justina Gringytė with WNO Orchestra

Bute Park

This year’s Remembrance Concert commemorating the destruction of Dresden on 13 February 1945 features Igor Stravinsky’s »Mass«, a deliberately sober, liturgically reduced Mass setting. The composer did not produce a bombastic celebration of Christ’s sacrifice but rather a piece of quiet contemplation. Anton Bruckner’s Ninth feels rather like a testimonial. The composer dedicated the symphony to »our dear Lord« as an act of the deepest devotion. The three completed movements take us on an emotional journey from loss and devastation to hope before the unfinished work fades into silence. Daniele Gatti unites these two compositions to create a poignant tapestry of mourning, remembrance and contemporary spirituality.

Symphony Concert N° 6

Semperoper Dresden

Pianist and conductor Kristian Bezuidenhout will make his Boston Philharmonic debut playing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20.

MOZART / BRUCKNER Concert

Boston Symphony Hall

Before Esa-Pekka Salonen became one of the world’s most renowned conductors, he started his musical life as a working horn player and progressive composer. He brings his musical worlds together in leading the American premiere of his Horn Concerto composed for Stefan Dohr, principal horn of the Berlin Philharmonic. The concerto draws on material from Anton Bruckner’s magisterial, brass-friendly Fourth Symphony, which Salonen has programmed for the second half of this concert. Bruckner’s soaring symphonies are frequently described as “cathedrals in sound.”

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Bruckner and Salonen

Boston Symphony Orchestra

The full blast of orchestral sound: This season, the Royal Concertgebouw's regulars present Anton Bruckner's monumental Eighth Symphony at the Elbphilharmonie under the baton of the young star conductor Klaus Mäkelä. He will take over as Chief Conductor of the Dutch orchestra in 2027. Together, they are already testing the limits of this powerful symphony.

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Klaus Mäkelä

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

A vast cathedral of sound, Bruckner's titanic Symphony No. 8 achieves an awe-inspiring effect with its massive orchestration and rich harmonies. Hear your BSO in the spotlight as Concertmaster Jonathan Carney performs Mozart's radiant Violin Concerto No. 5.

Bruckner & Mozart

Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall

The Music Center at Strathmore

Mari Eriksmoen is the soloist in Ludvig Irgens-Jensen’s song cycle Japanischer Frühling, with texts drawn from a collection of Asian poetry. Honorary Conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste also leads the Oslo Philharmonic in Anton Bruckner’s monumental Symphony No. 8.

Jukka-Pekka Saraste Mari Eriksmoen

Oslo Concert Hall

From the very first second ofBruckner's 4th Symphonyhe conjures us out of our earthly shell and into a world of mystery, of euphony, of overwhelming currents and enormous constructions. Bruckner's music is 'larger than life', but his 4th symphony is the most welcoming of all his great symphonies and a good place to start if you still have your first Bruckner experience to enjoy. He takes us from outer space to the very deepest place in the heart of the ball when he builds his enormous musical sequences, which switch surprisingly effortlessly from great drama to subtle intimacy. Organ virtuoso that he was, he uses the orchestra as a gigantic luxury organ, which in a split second can switch from the finest little Austrian folk melody to terrifying cascades of sound - produced with an orchestra that is not much larger than in Beethoven's time, but which uses the entire register in new and surprising ways.

Bruckner's 4th Symphony

Odense Concert Hall

Over a misty landscape of storybook castles and deeply carved valleys, a solitary horn calls out at dawn. Bruckner’s Romantic Symphony begins its four-movement journey, encompassing birdsong, forest dances and hymns of thanksgiving. Chicago favorite Daniil Trifonov takes on Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto, a work that crackles with invention and ends with a rollicking, dance-like finale.

Salonen, Trifonov & Beethoven

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Dutch conductor Jaap van Zweden and American pianist Emanuel Ax return to the San Francisco Symphony for a stellar program featuring two Austrian giants. The passionate, far-reaching C-major Piano Concerto, K.503 is now recognized as one of Mozart’s finest—and most difficult—works in the genre. Olivier Messiaen called the brief third theme of the third movement the most beautiful sequence of bars that Mozart ever wrote. It wasn’t until his Seventh Symphony that Bruckner, age 60, enjoyed any popular success as a composer. The Seventh Symphony features a contrabass tuba and, for the first time outside The Ring cycle, four Wagner tubas. It’s a fitting tribute to Wagner, whom Bruckner memorialized in the symphony’s elegiac coda—calling it “funeral music for the Master.”

Jaap van Zweden & Emanuel Ax

Davies Symphony Hall

Thursday Concert No. 6 (2026)

Volkshaus Jena

Through night to light – per aspera ad astra – numerous works and symphonies since Beethoven's Fifth Symphony have led. Would Franz Schubert have followed a similar path if he had completed the Symphony Fragment in B minor, as the "Unfinished" should correctly be called? After the abysmal, gloomy beginning of the work, the second movement already embarks on the path to light and contains passages of otherworldly beauty that have cast off all earthly weight. Bruckner's Seventh Symphony takes the key of this movement, the radiant E major, as its home key, so that the symphony, metaphorically speaking, already begins in the light. Conversely, as in Schubert's case, the second movement then marks the zone of gloom and despair. In the end, however, this Seventh Symphony closes in dazzling brightness.

4th Philharmonic Concert

Konzerthaus Dortmund

Under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen, Colburn’s Maestro Ernst H. Katz Chair of Conducting Studies, the Colburn Orchestra brings to life Bruckner’s sweeping “Romantic” Symphony: a vivid narrative of medieval knights, the enchantment of nature, and the thrilling drama of forest hunts. Joining Esa-Pekka on the program are Salonen Conducting Fellows Aleksandra Melaniuk and Mert Yalniz, with Yalniz conducting the world premiere of his own orchestral composition. Lizst’s bold and playful symphonic poem Les Préludes opens the concert.

Romantic Realms: Esa-Pekka Salonen Conducts Bruckner

University of California, Los Angeles

Under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen, Colburn's Maestro Ernst H. Katz Chair of Conducting Studies, the Colburn School’s flagship ensemble presents Bruckner’s sweeping "Romantic" Symphony: a vivid narrative of medieval knights, the enchantment of nature, and the thrilling drama of forest hunts. The program will also feature Salonen Conducting Fellows Aleksandra Melaniuk and Mert Yalniz, with Yalniz conducting the World Premiere of his own composition.

Subscription Concert

Kurpark Bad Oeynhausen

Konzerthalle, Bad Salzuflen

Detmold University of Music

Stadthalle Gütersloh

Schützenhof city park

Stadtpark Schützenhof Hangül GmbH

Stadttheater Lippstadt

Minden City Theater

Paderhalle Paderborn

Although Bruckner placed his symphonic work in the tradition of Beethoven, he could not equal the great Ludwig: his Ninth Symphony remained unfinished, with several incomplete versions of the finale. Aware of his imminent end, he left a majestic score that the extraordinary Marko Letonja, a regular guest of the OPRL, will magnify: a devastating scherzo framed by slow movements that resonate like a final farewell to life. Bruckner's sonic testament... At the end of his life, Richard Strauss composed a final bouquet of vocal pieces, the Four Last Songs, peaceful swan songs tinged with melancholy.

Bruckner 9

UCLouvain

Philharmonic Hall of Liege

Grand Manège

Mendelssohn was influenced less by Prussian austerity and dramatic pathos than his comprehensive education, evangelical piety and, in musical terms, adherence to classical form. The three movements in his violin concerto flow seamlessly into one another. We're delighted that Arabella Steinbacher is back, playing one of the most popular violin concertos there is.

5th Sunday & Monday Symphonic Concerts

Alte Oper

Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8 is a monumental journey of grandeur and introspection. From delicate string passages to thunderous brass fanfares, this symphony showcases Bruckner’s mastery of orchestration, capturing a vast emotional spectrum—from vulnerability to triumph.

Bruckner's Majestic Eighth

Jacoby Symphony Hall

Season ticket V09 - Thomas Dausgaard

Opera House, A Coruña

Let us venture to claim that we could all use a little more romanticism. In this regard, Bruckner’s deeply romantic Fourth Symphony fits the bill. Emerging from the delicate string tremolos in the opening measures, the horn evokes the sounds of nature and a palpable sense of longing for a more ideal world – savoured with a continuous stream of bright colours. Prior to that, there is an opportunity to solve a mystery surrounding the “Prague” Symphony: to this day, it remains unclear why Mozart did not write a minuet for his Symphony No. 38, leaving it with only three movements. Mozart’s biographer Alfred Einstein simply remarked that the symphony said everything it had to say in three movements. The impressive trajectory leading from gloomy realms to sparkling joie de vivre in the “Figaroesque” key of D major confirms his judgment.

Paavo Järvi | Mozart · Bruckner

Gasteig HP8

The sweeping sonorities of Bruckner’s epic, final symphonic masterpiece unfold and rise sublimely like spires of a grand cathedral, inspiring awe and transporting you to a world with its own conception of time. A devoutly religious man, the composer’s dedication reads: “To the Lord of Lords, to my dear God, my last work, and I hope that He will grant me enough time to complete it and will generously accept my gift.” With this awe-inspiring symphony, he is already standing on the threshold of eternity.

Luisi Conducts Bruckner’s Ninth

Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center

When Herbert Blomstedt ascends the conductor’s rostrum, music truly becomes a way of life. The 98-year-old Conductor Laureate of the Staatskapelle embodies a humility and clarity that are deeply rooted in his art. His performances of Bruckner have long been regarded as benchmark interpretations. They are free of pathos and imbued with intellectual rigour, tonal transparency and inner calm. Bruckner’s exploration of musical form culminated in the Fifth Symphony, which premiered in 1876. The composer himself described it as his »most contrapuntally daring symphony«. Placing the highest demands on musicians and listeners alike, the work has an understated grandeur. The finale brings a brilliant fugato, truly an aural apotheosis that abjures vanity.

Symphony Concert N° 5

The soundscapes of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra's chamber concerts are as diverse as the characters of the musicians who perform in them. The demands in the orchestra pit are often characterized by the size and diversity of the voices. Chamber music, on the other hand, reduces this dimension to smaller ensembles and allows for intimate musical interaction. As in a dialog, different opinions come together, new ideas emerge and develop during the performance, opening up a creative space for spontaneous development.

3rd Chamber Concert

Elbphilharmonie

Season ticket V08 - Eva Ollikainen

Galicia Symphony Orchestra - Eva Olikainen

Garcia Barbon Theatre

2025 December Concert

University of New Orleans

Among the most famous movements of any of Bruckner’s symphonies, the Adagio from Symphony No. 7 is melodically rich and expansive in scope, resolving into serene acceptance. Miguel Harth-Bedoya considers the music from Cinderella to be some of Prokofiev’s most beautiful and dynamic; he has selected movements from the original ballet score to recreate the beloved fairy tale.

Prokofiev’s Cinderella

Alice Pratt Brown Hall

In 1896, on the 50th anniversary of his concerto debut, Camille Saint-Saëns wrote a final piano concerto for himself as a soloist. It is considered his "Egyptian" concerto because he supposedly composed it in Luxor on the Nile. Indeed, the second movement in particular draws inspiration from Egypt (a Nubian love song and the sounds of crickets and frogs on the Nile), but also influences from Spain and East Asia. The energetic third movement is also inspired by Saint-Saëns's frequent travels, namely by the sound of ships' steam engines. Yet the composer knows how to dress it all in melodic elegance.

Romantic

Bochumer Symphoniker

With Liszt and Bruckner, the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra unites two titans of Romanticism. Franz Liszt revolutionized piano playing, dazzling audiences with his virtuosity and sparking ‘Lisztomania.’ The brilliant Lise de la Salle, known for her technical mastery and fiery temperament, is the perfect interpreter of his works. Anton Bruckner expanded the symphony orchestra’s horizons, crafting harmonically rich and grandiose compositions. His Fourth Symphony, the ‘Romantic,’ evokes medieval chivalry, complete with forest hunts and gallant knights. Under the baton of Eliahu Inbal, the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra brings these romantic masterpieces to life in all their splendor.

Inbal dirigeert Bruckner 4

Queen Elisabeth Hall

TivoliVredenburg

Joyce DiDonato has been described as “an American treasure” (Operawire), “increasingly incomparable” (New Yorker) and “a great, brave and inspiring artist – one of the finest singers of our time” (Gramophone). She brings her voice, described by NPR as “luminous, silken, flexible, full of colours and expressive shadings” to Hector Berlioz’s equally luminous song cycle Les nuits d’été (Summer Nights). Berlioz’s gorgeously intimate orchestrations embody the sound of love, both new and long lost.

Joyce DiDonato

Auckland Town Hall

Michael Fowler Centre

The opening piece is Study for Orchestra by Julia Perry, a 20th - century African-American composer . This energetic and rhythmically inventive work reveals the full vitality of American music, bridging the gap between classical tradition and modern language. Next comes the poetry of Aaron Copland's Clarinet Concerto , brilliantly performed by our principal clarinet, Andrea Fallico. Alternating between jazzy tenderness and virtuoso flights of fancy, this iconic score lets the clarinet sing over intimate, sparkling orchestral colors. Finally, Bruckner's monumental Symphony No. 4 "Romantic" unfolds its mystical forest world, with horns calling out in the mist and majestic orchestral developments. A masterful work that transports us to the heart of nature sublimated by symphonic genius. Under the dynamic direction of Roderick Cox, this contrasting program celebrates the enduring Romantic spirit across centuries and continents.

Échos romantiques

Opéra Berlioz

Spanning a wide range of emotion, this concert offers music both epic and intimate. Jolted to life by its famous opening chords, Grieg's beloved Piano Concerto is the self-assured statement of Norway's most famous musical son. The concerto continues to reign as an audience favorite and features brilliant piano soloist Orion Weiss. Anton Bruckner's sprawling Symphony No. 9 is a passionate symphonic statement that produces what many call a "cathedral of sound."

Grieg Piano Concerto + Bruckner Symphony No. 9

Sunset Center Theater

They are compatriots, the composers Joseph Haydn and Anton Bruckner. But apart from their Austrian origins, the similarities are limited. Haydn is the grand old man of the Viennese classical era . With charming melodies, concise movements and a unique sense of musical brilliance, his trumpet concerto has become a popular masterpiece.

Haydn and Bruckner

The Conservatory Concert Hall

Herbert Blomstedt is Sweden’s most internationally renowned conductor – ever. Among the many orchestras he has worked with are the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, and not least the San Francisco Symphony, where he served as Music Director for ten years. He has also conducted the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra on more than 200 occasions. In connection with his 90th birthday in 2017, Konserthuset Stockholm named its main conductor’s dressing room in his honour.

Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony

Stockholm City Hall

Concert in Seoul

Seoul Arts Center

At once rooted in the purest liturgical tradition and a laboratory for avant-garde music intent on seduction, Ligeti's Requiem is a landmark work of the 20th century, succeeded by the mystical medievalism of the Fourth Symphony that Bruckner himself called “Romantic”.

Orchestre de Paris / Esa-Pekka Salonen

Philharmonie de Paris

For the Lied Concert series, pianist Magnus Svensson invites an exclusive group of artists from the world’s opera and concert stages, offering audiences the opportunity to experience their vocal artistry in the intimate setting of the Grünewald Hall. In this concert, we hear British tenor Robin Tritschler, admired for his radiant, clear voice and his ability to illuminate the meaning of the texts he performs.

Lied Concert with Robin Tritschler

Stockholm Concert Hall

Future Chief Conductor Marie Jacquot arrives in Cologne with a room-filling classic. The Frenchwoman will take over as the WDR Symphony Orchestra's conductor in the summer of 2026. She's already stoking anticipation with Anton Bruckner's Seventh. The symphony electrifies with its sky-high verve. Bruckner was himself a church musician and plays the orchestra's instruments like the stops of an organ. Thus, the combination with works for the "Queen of Instruments" is a natural fit. Parisian organist Thomas Ospital will enrich the program with music by Handel and Jehan Alain.

Marie Jacquot - Bruckner's Seventh

Museum Ludwig

"No one else has managed to fill music with such meaning and consistent beauty." That's what Herbert Blomstedt says about Anton Bruckner. And his countless admirers say it about Blomstedt, who has filled the concert halls of the world with his humble interpretations, his unpretentious personality, and his insatiable need for musical communication for more than an incredible 70 years. The 97-year-old maestro's outstanding experience with Bruckner has already manifested itself in numerous CD recordings with various orchestras as well as in repeated Bruckner performances with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, to which he has returned regularly since his time as chief conductor. Blomstedt now concludes this series—most recently with the Sixth in October 2019 and the Seventh in June 2022—with Bruckner's Ninth and final Symphony.

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Herbert Blomstedt

International piano star Yulianna Avdeeva returns after her stunning solo recital debut last year to play Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, balancing stormy energy and subtle introspection. This concerto marks a transitional period for the composer, rooted in Classical forms yet looking forward to Romanticism in its emotional intensity. Austrian conductor and Oregon Symphony Music Director David Danzmayr then takes us to the pinnacle of the Romantic era with Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony. Immerse yourself in the composer's musical vision of a mythic past, complete with knights riding from a medieval town into a lush forest full of lilting birdsong and the blaring of hunters’ horns.

Beethoven & Bruckner

Benaroya Hall

A grand program, weighty and deeply immersed in Romanticism: ultimate masterpieces by Brahms and Bruckner, interpreted by artists who have engaged with these works more intensely than almost anyone else. Bruckner dedicated his last symphony "to the dear Lord"—it doesn't get any lesser than that. The Austrian Manfred Honeck is among the most important Bruckner conductors of our time. He received three Grammy nominations in 2020 for his recording of Bruckner's Ninth with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra; he simply finds the perfectly balanced approach to the grand symphonic architecture of this music. Leonidas Kavakos' recording of the Brahms Violin Concerto was no less celebrated, and here, too, balance is central: his interpretation is "the best to appear on CD in years," wrote the music magazine The Guardian. The Brahms concerto, the violinist himself says, is not comparable to other violin concertos—the violin here doesn't merely have to sing melodically. "Here we have this truly incredible connection with the orchestra. It has to sound as homogeneous as possible."

European tour with Sir Simon Rattle

National Music Auditorium, Madrid

Palau de la Música Catalana

Barbican Centre

Philharmonie Luxembourg

Jardín del Turia

Bruckner said that the beginning of his Seventh Symphony came to him in a dream, played by an angel. This huge, glowing mountain-range of sound is basically soul music by any other name.

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle

Concert in Tokyo

ARK Hills

Baroque lovers will rejoice as we welcome the harpsichord in Bach’s Concerto in A major with Florence native Gabriel Smallwood. Bruckner’s monumental Fourth Symphony is a majestic, expansive journey through medieval landscapes, echoing with hunting horns and sweeping lyricism.

Go for Baroque

FMU's Performing Arts Center

Sunday matinee 02: Marek Janowski

Sir Simon Rattle, Schumann and Bruckner

Anton Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony is defined by extremes—at times bombastic, dissonant, and soaring and at others, to quote Zubin Mehta, “deeply Romantic” and lyrical in a way that “will break your heart.” Bruckner constructed massive musical architecture that invites listeners to look upward in sublime contemplation, and his Eighth is his most towering cathedral of symphonic ideas for its length and orchestral scale. Zubin Mehta has been studying Bruckner and the Eighth for seven decades, making this a rare opportunity to experience the symphony in all of its maximalist glory.

Mehta Leads Bruckner’s Eighth

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Few literary works had as significant an influence throughout the 19th century as The Boy's Magical Horn (Des Knaben Wunderhorn); its mix of everyday experience and the supernatural and bizarre were a perfect match for the Romantic movement. Mahler, one of the greatest songwriters of all time, used these texts as the basis for his own creation, evoking the lives and feelings of ordinary people in extraordinary times.

Where the Shining Trumpets Blow: Payare Leads Bruckner No. 4

Jacobs Music Center

Concert in Osaka

Festival Hall Osaka

2nd Subscription Concert

Vienna Music Society

Before becoming Head of Music at Westminster Cathedral in London in 2021, Simon Johnson was organist at St. Paul's Cathedral, where he performed at a variety of royal events, including the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II and the celebrations for her 90th birthday. The Eule organ in the Philharmonie Mercatorhalle, with its four manuals and 72 stops, is also very British and majestic. Its four manuals and 72 stops are modeled on the late-Romantic English town hall organs—in the first Toccata of the season, the Duisburg Philharmonic Choir will provide powerful support. Choir director Marcus Strümpe has included Anton Bruckner, among others, on the program, as the late-Romantic composer, as a virtuoso organist and composer of sacred music, was well versed in the combination of choir and organ. In Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's "Hear My Prayer," a soprano joins the organ and choir: the frequent alternations between solo voice and choir are reminiscent of the "anthem" tradition of the Anglican liturgy. William Harris and Herbert Howells, two prominent representatives of Anglican church music, are also on the program, while Louis Vierne, long-time chief organist at Notre-Dame de Paris, represents the rich organ scene in France. An exuberant romantic richness of sound characterizes his organ symphonies, a genre he himself invented.

Organ & Choir

CityPalais

The Viennese have the waltz * On the Beautiful Blue Danube* , the Praguers have the tone poem *The Moldau* , and the New Yorkers have the musical *West Side Story* . But we Nurembergers have Richard Wagner's opera * The Mastersingers of Nuremberg * as the "music of our city" – the greatest tribute to the Franconian metropolis ever composed. The prelude to Act 1, relatively short in duration but monumental in its impact, is a veritable symphonic poem that encompasses all of the opera's central plot motifs. Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 3, dedicated to Wagner in its original version, is monumental in every respect. Between these two monuments of late Romanticism is a famous masterpiece of early Classical music: Haydn's virtuoso C major concerto featuring the young Japanese rising star of the cello world, Michiaki Ueno. Benjamin Reiners, GMD in Chemnitz and conductor of the Robert Schumann Philharmonic, will be conducting. He has been a guest with us several times since 2012.

Bruckner And The Mastersingers

Meistersinger Hall

Bruckner's popular “Romantic” Symphony takes the listener on an emotional and philosophical journey with themes of humanity’s interactions with nature and a grandiose orchestral landscape. Don’t miss the rare opportunity to hear this popular work conducted by one of the world’s foremost ‘Brucknerians’. The great Canadian composer Jacques Hétu wrote his riveting Organ Concerto for the inauguration of the Winspear’s own Davis Concert Organ in 2002. This concert opens with a celebratory welcome march from Wagner's opera Tannhäuser.

Bruckner, Wagner & Organ

Winspear Centre

Mendelssohn’s final concerto ranks among the top violin concertos of all time, impeccably bridging Classical and Romantic styles. Violinist Maria Ioudenitch breathes new life into this perennial favourite. Bruckner’s symphonies are often called “Cathedrals of Sound” and his fantastic fifth is no exception, culminating one of the most triumphant finales ever composed. German conductor Constantin Trinks leads us on a spiritual journey of mystery and grandeur.

Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto

Orpheum

In its rave review of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s 2024 concerts with the Orchestra, the Philadelphia Inquirer praised his extraordinary ability to draw inspired performances from the musicians: “stunningly successful, the connection is strong … astonishing.” Salonen returns to conduct Bruckner’s majestic Fourth Symphony, a musical event not to be missed. 

Esa-Pekka Salonen Conducts Bruckner

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Curtis Symphony Orchestra launches its 2025–26 series with a dynamic program tracing the evolution of orchestral music. The evening opens with Overture to The School for Scandal, Curtis alumnus Samuel Barber’s witty and fast-paced overture inspired by Sheridan’s 18th-century comedy. Grammy-winning conductor Christoph Eschenbach leads Krzysztof Penderecki’s Concerto Grosso for Three Cellos, featuring Curtis alumni Nicholas Canellakis, Yumi Kendall, and Christine Jeonghyoun Lee—a striking work that blends lyrical beauty with bold dissonance and rhythmic intensity.

A Voyage Through Symphonic Expression.

A dream made of brass – and a musical encounter of the highest order: Daniel Téllez Gutiérrez, principal trombonist of the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, meets the world-renowned trombone legend Christian Lindberg. Together they present the world premiere of composer Andrea Tarrodi's captivating new double concerto – a work that will captivate and inspire you with the power and richness of sound of two outstanding soloists.
Alpesh Chauhan then guides you through Anton Bruckner's monumental 7th Symphony, which, with its sublime sound architecture, rises before you like an imposing cathedral. 

Composer

Anton Bruckner

Events

Upcoming events

Sep 21, 2025 - May 10, 2026

Chamber Concert / Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra · Elbphilharmonie

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Subscription Concert · Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie

Mar 29, 2026

Soundscapes · Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

Apr 1, 2026

Bach Reger Bruckner · Dresdner Philharmonie

Apr 2, 2026

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 · Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

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22 - 23 Mar, 2026

6th Symphony Concert · Theater Lübeck

14 - 15 Mar, 2026

Francisco del Pino + Beethoven & Bruckner · Albany Symphony

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