Poster Anton Bruckner
Anton Bruckner
Society of Friends of Music, Vienna
Performance Today®

Anton Bruckner

Johannes Brahms said he just didn't understand symphonies by Anton Bruckner. To which Bruckner replied, "I have the exact same problem with yours." On Wednesday's Performance Today, we'll hear the New York Philharmonic play music by the often misunderstood Bruckner - the gorgeous slow movement from his Symphony No. 8.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Piano Sonata in F-sharp minor: Movement 1
Mikhail Pletnev, piano
CPE Bach: Sonatas & Rondos
DG 459614

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Concerto in A major for Cello and Strings, W. 172
Jupiter String Quartet
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY

The Piano Puzzler: This week's contestant is Kelly Ferjutz from Cleveland, OH

Julius Klengel: Hymnus, Op. 57
Johannes Moser, cello; Cellos of the German Youth Philharmonic Orchestra; Alondra de la Parra, conductor
Grand Hall, Concert House, Berlin, Germany

Hour 2

George Frideric Handel: A Gavotte from "Ottone"
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra; Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Handel: Ottone
Mundi 907073

Claude Debussy: Prelude Bruyeres
Emmanuel Ceysson, harp
The Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, The Mar-a-Lago Club, Palm Beach, FL

Francois Couperin: The Mysterious Barricades
Emmanuel Ceysson, harp
The Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, The Mar-a-Lago Club, Palm Beach, FL

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 8: Movement 3 Adagio. Feierlich langsam
New York Philharmonic; Alan Gilbert, conductor
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY

George Frideric Handel: Concerto Grosso in B-flat Major, Op. 3, No. 2, HWV 313
Venice Baroque Orchestra; Andrea Marcon, conductor
Hodgson Concert Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

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