Prom 73: VPO/Haitink – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonBruckner died before completing his Ninth Symphony, whose three finished movements comprise one of music's most tantalising fragments. While Bernard Haitink, who conducted this performance by the Vienna Philharmonic, feels that the various attempts to complete the piece from the composer's sketches are not for him, his interpretation of the work as a torso achieves a stature that few performances of any masterpiece attain.Haitink's mastery of Bruckner's style both at a l...

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