Bruckner and Messiaen
Simone Young conducts Messiaen’s L’Ascension and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 6
Anton Bruckner and Olivier Messiaen have much in common. The conductor Simone Young and the Concertgebouw Orchestra forge a musical and spiritual bond between Bruckner’s Symphony No. 6 and Messiaen’s L’Ascension.
‘In his symphonies, Bruckner lived the drama and the emotions he could not find in his personal life.’
Concert programme
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Olivier Messiaen
L'Ascension
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Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 6
Performers
About this concert
Anton Bruckner was a deeply religious organist, as well as a composer whose highly personal sound was far ahead of its time. The same was true of Olivier Messiaen a century later. Simone Young forges a musical and spiritual bond between Bruckner’s Symphony No. 6 and Messiaen’s exquisite symphonic meditations on the Ascension.
The Sixth Symphony is shorter, lighter in tone and less monumental than Bruckner’s other symphonies. ‘Die Sechste ist die keckste’ (the Sixth is the sauciest), Bruckner himself once wrote. 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. Conductor Simone Young: ‘In his symphonies, Bruckner lived the drama and the emotions he could not find in his personal life.’
Dates and tickets
About this concert
Anton Bruckner was a deeply religious organist, as well as a composer whose highly personal sound was far ahead of its time. The same was true of Olivier Messiaen a century later. Simone Young forges a musical and spiritual bond between Bruckner’s Symphony No. 6 and Messiaen’s exquisite symphonic meditations on the Ascension.
The Sixth Symphony is shorter, lighter in tone and less monumental than Bruckner’s other symphonies. ‘Die Sechste ist die keckste’ (the Sixth is the sauciest), Bruckner himself once wrote. 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. Conductor Simone Young: ‘In his symphonies, Bruckner lived the drama and the emotions he could not find in his personal life.’