Bruckner: Te Deum im Wiener Musikverein

About the Event

Anton Bruckner's music is close to Yutaka Sado's heart, both in the concert hall and on CD: he has worked on all of the symphonies with the Tonkünstler Orchestra, starting with the third. So it seems only logical that Bruckner is once again on the program when the former principal conductor returns to the Tonkünstler podium as a guest for the first time – for Bruckner's “Zero,” which should actually be called ‘Canceled’: it was not written before the first symphony, as long assumed, but after, as a “Second” that was then withdrawn. It is now considered an essential, characteristic contribution to the series of early symphonies. A comparatively concise yet monumental later work from the circle of the Seventh Symphony is the Te Deum, with its rushing sounds of ecstasy, rapture, and fervor. Together with the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno and hand‐picked solo voices, the Tonkünstler Orchestra, conducted by Yutaka Sado, lets the heavenly hosts celebrate the great praise of God.

Wiener Musikverein

The Wiener Musikverein is one of the world's great concert halls. The home of the Vienna Philarmonic Orchestra and the centre of Viennese musical life, the building was opened in 1870 as a part of an ambitious plan to create an elegant cultural boulevard along the Ringstrasse. Designed in the Neo‐Classical style to resemble an Ancient Greek temple, the Great Hall of the Musikverein is deemed to be one of the best music halls in the world thanks to its impeccable acoustics.
In 2004 four new halls were added to the building. The Austrian architect Wilhelm Holzbauer recognised the aesthetic importance of the existing building and sought out ways to echo the style in a modern language of form. Each of the four New Halls focuses on a different material — glass, metal, stone, and wood.