Bruckner has never sounded quite so upbeat. Conductor Jaap van Zweden began his career as a violinist – at 19 he was the youngest-ever concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, just down the ...

Bruckner and Brahms produced their official First Symphonies, both in C minor, in their 40s. Bruckner, the elder by nine years, got there first, in 1866. But it's his which is the more adventurous ...

Gerhard Markson, principal conductor of the NSO, talks to Michael Dervan about launching his players into the daunting challenge of Bruckner's symphonies, which he is presenting in some unlikely ...