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Celebrating Bernard Haitink: Vienna Philharmonic

Recorded at the 2019 Lucerne Festival, Haitink's final concert begins with Emanuel Ax performing Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto and ends with Bruckner's Seventh Symphony.

To end the series celebrating Bernard Haitink, the great conductor's last performance, when the 90-year-old bade farewell to the international concert stage with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded at the Concert Hall, KKL, Lucerne, as part of the 2019 Lucerne Festival. To open the concert, he's joined by Emanuel Ax for Beethoven's by turns elusive and playful Piano Concerto No. 4. But to end, one of those 'Haitink' composers with which he made his name: Bruckner and his Seventh Symphony, which in this performance unfolds with Haitink's trademark inexorable inevitability, a fitting end to a seven-decades-long career.

Presented by Martin Handley.

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, Op. 58

8.10 pm
Interval

Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E

Emanuel Ax (piano)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)

2 hours, 28 minutes

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, from Die sch枚ne M眉llerin, D.795

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

    Symphony no.7 in E major

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet in D major. K.155

    Ensemble: Quartetto Italiano.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Franz Schubert

    An den Mond, D.193

    Singer: Christian Gerhaher. Performer: Gerold Huber.
    • Schubert: Schwanengesang & 4 Lieder: Gerhaher/Huber.
    • Arte Nova Classics.
    • 17.

Broadcast

  • Fri 14 Jan 2022 19:30