Edinburgh International Festival
Beethoven and Bruckner: Nine Symphonies Eighty-year-old Charles Mackerras triggers the most famous four notes in music and supervises their development into Beethoven's iconic symphonic masterpiece. Bruckner's Fifth is also a structural miracle, a colossal tour-de-force built from a simple pizzicato scale. Introduced by Donald Macleod.
Beethoven Symphony No 5 in C minor Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conductor Charles Mackerras
Bruckner Symphony No 5 in B flat
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Ingo Metzmacher