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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London

Presented by Donald Macleod

Lorin Maazel directs Bruckner's mighty Symphony no 8, a work composed as a conscious tribute to three mighty Austro-German orchestral masters. Alongside it, music by J S Bach for Bruckner's own instrument - the organ.

J. S. Bach arr. Guilmant: Cantata 'Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir', BWV 29 - Sinfonia
J. S. Bach: Chorale Prelude 'Allein Gott in der H枚h' sie Ehr', BWV 662
J. S. Bach: Chorale Prelude 'Komm, Gott Sch枚pfer, heiliger Geist', BWV 667
J. S. Bach: Chorale Prelude 'Vor deinem Thron tret' ich hiermit', BWV 668
J. S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543

8.00pm Interval

8.25pm
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C minor (1890 version, ed. Nowak)

Klaus Sonnleitner (organ)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Lorin Maazel (conductor)

Lorin Maazel directs Bruckner's mighty Symphony no 8, a work composed as a conscious tribute to the three great Austro-German masters whose legacy Bruckner most admired: Beethoven, Schubert and Wagner.

Before it, music for organ by J S Bach - a reminder both that Bruckner was himself an accomplished organist, and also that he himself gave six recitals on the Albert Hall organ in 1871. Tonight's soloist - the distinguished performer Klaus Sonnleitner - is present-day organist at St Florian's Abbey, Linz, where Bruckner himself was organist almost 160 years ago.