Bruckner's Sixth Symphony

He is sometimes called the composer of the German forest: Carl Maria von Weber. Especially after his brilliant opera Der Freischütz. Less known is that he toured the German concert halls as a piano virtuoso with moving sonatas and piano concertos of his own hand. And also with his Konzertstück, which conceals a romantic love story. The narrator behind the grand piano is Ronald Brautigam. He also plays the solo in the still decidedly romantic Orchestral piece that Willem Pijper wrote down when he was twenty-four. With Bruckner's Sixth Symphony, we enter a totally new world. Here a grand scale is set in motion that composers and audiences never knew before. All in all, a cathedral of tones over an hour and much longer than an average symphony by Mozart or Haydn.