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Bernard Haitink's farewell

Highlights from the 2019 Lucerne Festival, including Bernard Haitink's very last concert. The 90-year-old conductor ends his 65-year career with music by Beethoven and Bruckner.

Highlights from the 2019 Lucerne Festival, including Bernard Haitink's very last concert. The 90-year-old conductor ends his 65-year career with music by Beethoven and Bruckner - two of the composers he loves best; the orchestra is the Vienna Philharmonic. Plus the Lucerne Festival Orchestra with another symphonic blockbuster by another of Haitink's favourite composers, Shostakovich.

Presented by Kate Molleson

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4 in G major, Op 58
with Emanuel Ax (piano)
2.35pm
Bruckner: Symphony No 7 in E major
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor Bernard Haitink

3.50pm
Shostakovich
Symphony No 4 in C minor, Op 43
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Conductor Yannick N茅zet-S茅guin

3 hours

Last on

Tue 18 Feb 2020 14:00

Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No 4 in G major, Op 58

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
  • Franz Schubert

    Der M眉ller und der Bach

    Performer: Emanuel Ax. Music Arranger: Franz Liszt.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony No 7 in E major

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No 4 in C minor, Op 43

    Orchestra: Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.

Broadcast

  • Tue 18 Feb 2020 14:00