Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony has long been one of the composer’s underrated works. According to Sir Simon Rattle, this is because it doesn’t offer what people usually expect of a Bruckner symphony. It is shorter, more transparent and less solemn than usual, “a piece full of humour and daring”.
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Bruckner himself seems to have seen it that way, for he whimsically said that the Sixth was his “boldest”.
To open the programme, Simon Rattle conducts the world premiere of a horn concerto written by Jörg Widmann, this season’s Composer in Residence, for our principal horn Stefan Dohr.
- Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- Sir Simon Rattle - Conductor
- Stefan Dohr - Horn
Jörg Widmann
Concerto for horn and orchestra (world premiere).
Commissioned by the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation
- Stefan Dohr - horn
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 6 in A major
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Participating artists
Berliner Philharmoniker
Stefan Dohr
Sir Simon Rattle
