Bruckner's symphonies in the original sound
Experimentation

In January 1869, shortly after his appointment as Professor of Harmony and Counterpoint at the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, Anton Bruckner began work on a symphony in D minor, which he named "No 2" in his autograph. This explains why its outdated designation as the "Zeroth" is not only misleading, but simply wrong. Presumably due to critical reactions - the conductor ,Felix Otto Dessoff, is said to have asked about the beginning: "Yes, where is the theme?" - Bruckner withdrew the symphony, probably in 1873, only jotting down "annulirt" in the score in 1895, which gave it the nickname the "Annulierte ". Long since recognized as a fully-fledged Bruckner symphony, the focus is now increasingly on the work's decidedly experimental traits in particular.

Bruckner's " Annulled" is by no means the only symphony to be set aside by its composer. Franz Schubert did the same with his Symphony No. 7 in B minor, the famous "Unfinished". In 1822 he stopped working on this composition for reasons unknown at the beginning of the third movement. Robert Schumann did the same with his Symphony in G minor named "Zwickauer" after the place where the premiere of its first movement was performed. Only the first two movements were completed in 1832 and 1833.

Le Concert des Nations, unquestionably one of the best original sound orchestras in the world, whose members come mainly from Romance and Latin American countries, and its founder, Jordi Savall, who last performed at the Brucknerhaus Linz more than a quarter of a century ago, take on the three symphonic children 'rejected' by their composer fathers.

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Symphony No. 7 ("Unfinished") in B minor, D 759 (1822)

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Symphony ("Zwickau") in G minor, WoO 29 (1832-33)

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Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)

Symphony ("Annulled") in D minor, WAB 100 (1869)

Le Concert des Nations

Jordi Savall | Conductor