Anton Bruckner

For Anton Bruckner's bicentennial, we've asked WRTI classical hosts, and a couple of prominent others, to pick some favorite moments in his body of work.

For Austrian composer Anton Bruckner's 200th birthday, we sat down with Professor Benjamin Korstvedt to talk about Bruckner's complex legacy and unpack the changes that his music went through posthumously.

The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Haydn’s Horn Concerto No. 1, featuring Jennifer Montone, and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 6. On the podium is acclaimed guest conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla.

The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 18, featuring Emanuel Ax, and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 — both conducted by Herbert Blomstedt, still energetic on the podium in his mid-90s.

Join us on Sunday, September 19th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, September 20th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 to hear a 2017 Philadelphia Orchestra concert conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. It brings us works by two composers born almost 150 years apart, whose music expresses profound religious faith.

History has painted composer Anton Bruckner as a simple man who gave the world complex and innovative symphonies. Bruckner’s 8th symphony, which premiered in December of 1892, is a spiritual masterpiece.

Back in January, 2016, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra launched a three-week Music of Vienna series, and one of those concerts—both…

The symphony, as we know it today, underwent major changes from the end of the 18th to the late 19th century. As WRTI’s Susan Lewis reports, two…

Need to brush up on your Bruckner? Or discover his symphonies for the first time? Let conductor Daniel Barenboim guide you through all nine symphonies in this audio primer.

Vienna was a hotbed of musical evolution, and the second concert in the Philadelphia Orchestra’s three-part series of the Music of Vienna shows us how far…