Wagnerian in sound and fury, Beethovenian in form and content, Bruckner’s extraordinary Eighth Symphony was a success at its premiere in Vienna, the week before Christmas in 1892. It had taken over six years to get to that point, however – three to compose it, then another three to revise it several times at the urging of conductors.

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A work that is “the creation of a giant, surpassing in spiritual dimension and magnitude all the other symphonies of the master,” according to composer Hugo Wolf’s review of the premiere.

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Russian conductor Semyon Bychkov has garnered astonishing reviews wherever he goes, including his previous visits to Walt Disney Concert Hall.