BBC Proms 2023 - Prom 65 - Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony (320kbps .mp3)
01. Bruckner - Symphony No. 8 in C minor (1890 version, ed. Nowak) (84 mins)
01a. Introduction to Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8
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BBC Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov (conductor)
Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony. The composer described the finale of his symphony – the last he would ever complete – as ‘the most significant movement of my life’. It’s the culmination of a career, perhaps even of an era: music of ‘blazing calm’ and impossible grandeur in which the shattering terror of the opening finally finds not just resolution but transcendence.
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Broadcast: 4 September 2023