European Union Youth Orchestra

For Rudolf Buchbinder, Antonin Dvořak’s B minor Cello Concerto is simply «the perfect concerto». Who could disagree with him? Julia Hagen, a former master student of Heinrich Schiff who has since risen to the top of her profession, immediately goes into raptures as well: «It is perhaps the most beautiful cello concerto». On this evening, Dvořak’s melodic richness finds a monumental counterpart in Anton Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony with the European Union Youth Orchestra under the direction of Spanish conductor Gustavo Gimeno. However, Bruckner’s great works contain lyrical sections that are always widely sung: No one wrote more beautiful adagios than Bruckner in his late symphonies, to which the Sixth may justifiably be counted. Together with the Fifth and Seventh, it is the only completed of his symphonies that its creator never revised.