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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2023 - One Hundred and Twenty Eighth Season - Prom 65: Bruckner's 'Eighth Symphony'
Performance Date4 September 2023
Performance DayMonday
Performance Time19:30
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ConductorsSemyon Bychkov
Set List'Symphony No.8 in C Minor (1890 version, ed. Nowak)', Bruckner
Performance NotesSemyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony. The composer described the finale of his symphony – the last he would ever complete – as ‘the most significant movement of my life’.

It’s the culmination of a career, perhaps even of an era: music of ‘blazing calm’ and impossible grandeur in which the shattering terror of the opening finally finds not just resolution but transcendence.

There was no interval.

The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
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Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work12976BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2023 - One Hundred and Twenty Eightth Season71
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/983Bychkov; Semyon (30 November 1952); Soviet conductor
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
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