Bruckner: Symphony No 8

If you only owned one performance of the greatest of Bruckner’s symphonies, this would be the one to have. Sublime. Michael Tanner

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Michael Tanner

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:32 pm

COMPOSERS: Bruckner
LABELS: Arthaus
WORKS: Symphony No. 8
PERFORMER: NDR SO/Günter Wand
CATALOGUE NO: 107131

If you only owned one performance of the greatest of Bruckner’s symphonies, this would be the one to have. Sublime. Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.

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