Stepping in barely four weeks before opening day, he surprised the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and its public. 73-year-old Hartmut Haenchen is clearly a maestro with a mind of his own, as revealed in ...

‘This symphony is the creation of a giant and in spiritual range, wealth of ideas and magnificence it surpasses all of the master’s other symphonies’ (Hugo Wolf). Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8 in C ...