Prom 27: BBCSSO/Runnicles – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonFew figures were more important for Anton Bruckner's career than the great German-Jewish conductor Hermann Levi, and Levi's refusal to mount a performance of the composer's Eighth Symphony because he felt unable "to make it his own" sent Bruckner into a deep depression from which he only emerged three years later, with the work revised and extended. At 80 minutes long the symphony appears daunting, but when well prepared and patiently executed, there are few works of com...

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