Bruckner's symphonies in their original sound
Adoration

Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, which he composed between February 1875 and May 1876 and called his "contrapuntal masterpiece" , is a truly powerful work. It is permeated by a dense network of motivic relationships. The final movement was considered  to be the "most monumental finale in the entire musical literature of the world" by the conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler.
The composer never heard his work in its original form, which was not premiered until 1935, and only added a bass tuba to the orchestra and changed a few minor details in the course of a revision between May 1877 and January 1878. There is therefore only one single version of this symphony.

Throughout his life Bruckner considered Wolfgang Amadé Mozart's Requiem in D minor to be a central work and it proved to be an important point of reference for his own church music. He also repeatedly analysed its score in great detail as is evidenced by voice leading studies, the results of which he entered in his Krakow writing diary in 1877. What is less well known, however, is that it served to a certain extent as a blueprint and 'motif source' for his 'Fifth'. In addition to a literal quotation of the phrase„Qua resurget ex favilla / Iudicandus homo reus“from the „Lacrymosa“in the second movement of the symphony, almost all of the themes of all four movements of the work refer to the Requiem.

Presumably for the first time ever, the world-famous Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Ádám Fischer, one of the most important conductors of our times, supported in the Mozart Requiem by an excellent quartet of soloists and the outstanding Ad Libitum Choir, will allow listeners to experience this exciting connection by juxtaposing the two works in one concert.

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1756-1791)

Requiem in D minor, KV 626 (1791) [after the edition of the completion by Franz Xaver Süßmayr (1766-1803) published in 1877 and edited by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)]

- Intermission -

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)

Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, WAB 105 (1875-76, rev. 1877-78)

Fenja Lukas | Soprano

Michaela Selinger | mezzo-soprano

João Terleira | Tenor

Alexandre Baldo | Bass

 Choir Ad Libitum

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Ádám Fischer | Conductor