The first but by no means my last earful of Bruckner’s 8th Symphony live.
This one was Bernard Haitink conducting the European Union Youth Orchestra.
I’m not 100% sure who joined me for this one, but Jilly is my prime suspect.
Here is a link to the BBC stub for this concert.
It got a Nice review in the Guardian…David Nice, to be precise:
Haitink Prom Nice Guardian 29 Aug 1989, Tue The Guardian (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com
If you want to hear Haitink conducting this piece, you could do worse than this Royal Concertgebouw recording.
When I was sitting in this August 1989 Prom, I would not have expected to have been sitting in the Concertgebouw less than four week’s later:
Life was a bit like that for me back then.