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Symphonies News

• Edo de Waart / Mahler: Symphony No. 1

  Wednesday, January 9th 2013

  
  Gustav Mahler came of age in the late 1880s as the long and storied tradition of Austro German Romanticism reached its peak.

• Sandor Vegh / Vegh in Hungary

  Wednesday, November 7th 2012

  
  For the concerts on 23 March 1993 and 20 March 1995 Sandor Vegh brought his own orchestra, the Camerata Academica Salzburg to Hungary.

• Markus Stenz / Mahler: Symphony No. 8

  Monday, October 29th 2012

  
  I have just finished my Eighth. It is the greatest thing I have done so far, Gustav Mahler wrote euphorically to the conductor Willem Mengelberg in 1906.

• Bruno Weil / Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

  Thursday, September 27th 2012

  
  Tafelmusik presents Beethoven's landmark Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Eroica - a heroic and monumental symphony originally dedicated to Napoleon, and Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Italian.

• Jaap van Zweden / Bruckner: Symphony No. 8

  Friday, September 14th 2012

  
  Jaap van Zweden is currently releasing the cycle of Bruckner Symphonies with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic for Octavia Records, with Symphonies 2, 4, 5, 7 and 9 already released to great critical acclaim.

• Salonen / Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4, Orango

  Thursday, May 10th 2012

  
  Commissioned to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the October Revolution in 1932, Orango tells the fantastical story of a human-ape hybrid, who, through a combination of sleazy journalism, stock-exchange swindles and blackmail, rises to become a ruthless newspaper baron.

• Gustavo Dudamel / Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

  Thursday, May 10th 2012

  
  Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Orchestra bring their unique energy to one of the summits of the orchestral repertoire - Beethoven's mighty Symphony No.3, the 'Eroica'.