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Ian Skelly introduces a concert given by Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin, first broadcast live from the Royal Festival Hall in 2012 and presented by Martin Handley. There was only one work on the bill: Bruckner's epic Symphony No 8. For many, it's the greatest of all Bruckner's symphonies and the one with a slow movement which, when Barenboim heard it for the first time as a teenager, 'absolutely tore my heart apart'. The acclaimed performance was described by one critic as 'organic and animated' and having an 'idiomatic spontaneity that... was Bruckner to treasure.'

Bruckner: Symphony No.8 (vers. composite, ed. Haas)
Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)