Lucerne Festival Orchestra/Abbado

[Petrushka]

Coming up on R3 this coming Wednesday, Oct 5 a very welcome repeat of Abbado's final UK concert given on October 11 2011 with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in the Royal Festival Hall.

On the programme: Mozart Symphony No 35 and Bruckner 5.

I was in the hall that night for what was one of the great concert hall experiences I've had (and, goodness knows, there have been a few).

On no account should this be missed!

[Alison]

You don't often get repeats of this sort of concert. I missed this first time around.

[BBMmk2]

Thanks for the heads up, of this rather special repeat broadcast!! :) I think Abbado done a recording of the 5th with the Lucerne. If so, I may have it! :)

[jayne lee wilson]

It's a Bruckner Special this week isn't it?

5th ain't for me just now, but note Rattle doing the 6th with... the OAE on Friday. We've certainly never heard that before - (unless you were at the RFH in April). Worth staying in/rushing back/getting up for!

[Tevot]

Hello there,

I actually listened to the Bruckner in China on listen again in late October. It was the first time I'd ever heard the 5th - and it was a revelation. And boy wasn't the finale superbly executed? Carrying all before it and banishing any doubts about the music and its craft?

Prompted by that broadcast I listened to other recordings of the 5th (Jochum and Haitink) and I must say that it is the Abbado (particularly the finale) that sticks in the mind.

Following that, I started to listen again to Bruckner 6. I had the Colin Davis / LSO Live CD which I listened to once years ago and which left me quite unmoved. I looked at Youtube to find the Bruckner Symphonies (Haitink recordings) posted by a Dutch gent called Bartje Bartmans. And what a glory imho the 6th is ... a serenely beautiful slow movement.

The moral? R3 Broadcasts can work wonders and broaden this old stick in the mud's horizons ;-) And for that I am deeply and humbly grateful.

Best Wishes,

Tevot