Schubert: Symphony No 7 "unfinished" / Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 – Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg

About this event

This is an orchestral concert rather than a staged production. The NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra performs under Marek Janowski, with Schubert's Symphony No. 7 in B minor, D.759, followed by an interval and Bruckner's Symphony No. 3 in D minor. The program description focuses on Bruckner's relationship with Richard Wagner and identifies the Third Symphony as the work in which Bruckner explicitly paid homage to Wagner. It also refers to the final version, in which the obvious Wagner quotations were removed. Schubert's unfinished symphony is presented in a biographical and stylistic context: its incompleteness was not caused by Schubert's death, and the reason it remained unfinished has remained a subject of commentary. The atmospheric opening is identified as evidence of a more mature and personal style.

Cast & creative

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  Conductor

  Marek Janowski
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  Conductor

  Marek Janowski
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  Composer

  Franz Schubert
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  Composer

  Anton Bruckner