Simone Young conducts the Concertgebouw Orchestra Bruckner’s Symphony No. 6

Date & Time

Fri, Jan 17, 2025, 20:15

Venue

Het Concertgebouw, Main Hall (Amsterdam)

The Sixth Symphony is shorter, lighter in tone and less monumental than Bruckner’s other symphonies. Bruckner himself was in the habit of saying ‘Die Sechste ist die keckste’ (the Sixth is the sauciest). Perhaps most remarkable is the third movement: instead of the lively, Ländler-like folk dances that characterise his scherzos, Bruckner wrote a rather dark and eerie movement here, with a theme from his Fifth appearing in the Trio. It was not until December 1930, under the baton of... Read full text

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Musicians

Concertgebouw Orchestra
Simone Young	Conductor

Program

Symphony No. 6 in A major

Anton Bruckner

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