Wagner és Bruckner
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MONUMENTAL. DEADLY LOVE.
The ‘Wesendonck Cycle’, written not much later than ‘Tristan and Isolde’ and featuring many links to the musical drama of love, is a particularly exciting piece of Wagner’s lifework. The author of the poems included in the Cycle is Mathilde Wesendonck: “She has been and she will always be my first and only love. The years I spent with her were the most dazzling years of my life,” Wagner once said. The greatest achievement of Bruckner’s symphonic lifework is his Symphony No. 8, which was premiered by János Richter in Vienna in 1892. The premiere was attended by such luminaries of Viennese music as Brahms, Hugo Wolf and Johann Strauss, and of course Bruckner’s most devoted supporters and most ardent enemies also visited the event. The reception of the piece was in fact varied and highly divisive. Although the controversy surrounding the work has since ended, the piece remains one of the most mysterious symphonies ever written.
Program
Wagner: Wesendonck Songs
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108
Conductor
János Kovács
Artists
Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Schöck Atala (alto)
Photo: Janos Kovacs ©Attila Voros
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