On September 4, 1824, the Austrian Romantic composer Anton Bruckner was born. Do you have a favorite Bruckner composition? Enjoy this excerpt of Leonard Bernstein conducting the @Vienna Philharmonic / Wiener Philharmoniker in Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 (mvmt. 2 excerpt), the composer’s final and unfinished symphony. This concert, in the Spring of 1990, was Bernstein’s final concert at the Musikverein with his beloved orchestra, with whom he collaborated over a 20-year period. The recording is ava

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On 9/9, we share with you Leonard Bernstein’s examination of the superstition surrounding “Ninth” symphonies. What's your favorite Ninth? In an introductory trailer to his Dmitri Shostakovich 9th Symphony performance with the Vienna Philharmonic / Wiener Philharmoniker, distributed by Deutsche Grammophon, Bernstein explains how Shostakovich “thumbed his nose” at the tradition of Ninth symphonies of the great composers. "The mystique of the number nine exerted itself in an odd way, so typical of

29K views · 107 reactions | “Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” - composer Leonard Bernstein who would've been 100 years old today. | Biography | Facebook