Bruckner's Ninth

Sat 19 Jan 2008 7:00pm at Symphony Hall

Canadian conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin made a thrilling CBSO debut in
2006 with an all-French programme. For his return visit to the CBSO he
turns to the last of Bruckner’s symphonies, a mighty torso which, like
Mozart’s Requiem or Schubert’s Eighth Symphony, remained unfinished yet is complete in itself. The final slow movement, like that of Mahler’s Ninth, seems to be an extended farewell to life, in music of glowing sincerity. Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto is also concerned with profound thoughts at times, though it also offers many opportunities for virtuosic display, and today we are joined by one of the most brilliant of the new generation of pianists, making his CBSO debut.

£39, £36.50, £31.50, £27.50, £23, £20, £16.50, £13, £9.50

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor
Jonathan Biss piano

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

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