Bruckner, Anton - Symphony No. 6 - Haitink, Bernard (conductor)

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Live from the Semperoper Dresden 2003


Anton Bruckner composed the Sixth Symphonybetween 1879 and 1881. He completed the first movement in the summer of 1880 in Switzerland, where the beauty of the landscape made him extraordinarily happy. He finished work on the final movement near Linz at the monastery of St Florian, where he had once been a choirboy and later held the post of organist; he returned to St Florian many times during his life and was buried there. He never heard a complete
performance of the work. He heard the outer movements only in a run-through with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, for the two central movements were premiered alone in Vienna in1883. It was not until 1899, three years after Bruckner’s death, that Gustav Mahler presented the whole symphony to the public – and then in an abridged form with instrumentational touchups. Bernard Haitink was Chief Conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden from 2002 to 2004;
Vol. 14 of the Edition Staatskapelle shows Haitink as an outstanding Bruckner-interpreter and found in the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden a perfect ensemble.


Staatskapelle Dresden/Bernard Haitink

Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 6 in A major, WAB106