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Episode 42: Anton Bruckner and his Ninth Symphony

Words like “epic” and “timeless” are regularly applied to Bruckner symphonies. They have a pace of their own. But let yourself get in synch with their pulse, and you’ll be richly rewarded. The Ninth inspires awe, as its sweeping score unfolds, rising—like spires of a grand cathedral—to God.

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  Carl Nielsen’s De fire Temperamenter

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  Mozart and Religion

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  Edvard Grieg

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  Béla Bartók and Witold Lutosławski

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  Verdi’s Requiem

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  Claude Vivier

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  Brahms’ and Schumann’s first symphonies

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  Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem

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  Schubert's Ninth Symphony

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  You don’t have to be a music-lover to love Beethoven

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  Anton Bruckner’s eighth symphony with the TSO

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  Kaija Saariaho, Violin Concerto Graal théâtre

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  Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade

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  Shostakovich Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor Op 77

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  Sibelius’ Symphonic Poems

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  Jean Sibelius' First Symphony