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  • Michel Tabachnik, © Camilla van Zuylen & Helene Grimaud, © Mat Hennek / DG
    Michel Tabachnik, © Camilla van Zuylen & Helene Grimaud, © Mat Hennek / DG

Brussels Philharmonic — Het Vlaams Radio Orkest

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With Michel Tabachnik at its head, the Brussels Philharmonic — Het Vlaams Radio Orkest presents Schumann's Concerto for piano and orchestra, and Bruckner's Symphony no. 7.


On one occasion when Brahms was the soloist in his mentor Schumann's piano concerto, the oboist missed the high A of the opening theme — whereupon Brahms, who was due to copy the oboe part, deliberately did the same. "So as not to embarrass the oboist," he declared sarcastically. On another occasion, during the Viennese feud between Wagnerians and Brahmsians, he was introduced to Bruckner, to whom he is alleged to have said, in similar vein, "So, you write symphonies too, do you?" The aged Bruckner, as everyone knew, had hardly ever written anything else.

So the combination of Schumann's Piano Concerto and Bruckner's Seventh Symphony is an ill‐starred one. From the luxury of our historical perspective, however, which can observe broad outlines of continuity, it is clear that Brahms and Bruckner could have been friends and mutual admirers. The then long‐dead Schumann would surely have acted as an intermediary.

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