Bruckner: Symphony No.5

Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony embraces the range of human experience, from humour to the sacred. The work represents the culmination of the first period of his time in Vienna. He had relocated to the city in 1868 from Linz, where he had been the organist at the city’s ‘Old’ Cathedral and produced many of his fine choral works. Curiously, Bruckner never heard this symphony performed by an orchestra. This performance, using instruments of the type that would have been familiar in Vienna at the time, gives us the chance to hear the symphony its composer imagined. The OAE continues its blossoming relationship with Adam Fischer, widely acclaimed for his performances and recordings of the complete symphonies of Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms and Mahler.