BBCSSO/Runnicles | Classical review

City Halls, GlasgowDonald Runnicles cemented his relation-ship with the BBCSSO at successive ­Edinburgh festivals with a repertoire largely consisting of epic concert works, so it is no coincidence that his first ­season as chief conductor of the orchestra features both Bruckner and Mahler. Symphonies don't come much more epic than Bruckner's Eighth, a leviathan of a work in which the composer extended his massive musical-architectural forms to unprecedented proportions. It is a long and p...

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