Palace Concerts
Festival Prelude / #Bruckner200
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
Kirill Petrenko conductor
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, WAB 105 (1875-76)
Concert without intermission
Celebrating Bruckner
One of the most admirable youth orchestras in Europe, the Gustav Mahler, visits Granada for one of the four concerts that will act as a prelude to the Festival, and does so under the guidance of one of the most prestigious batons of our time, Kirill Petrenko, who has been leading the Berlin Philharmonic for five years. It will be the first stone of a project around Anton Bruckner, the Austrian composer whose 200th anniversary will be celebrated in 2024. As an essential symphonist to understand the evolution of the genre, Petrenko will bring forward the Fifth, a work defined by its composer as his "contrapuntal masterpiece" and that he was never able to hear in its orchestral version. Indeed, an illness prevented Bruckner from being present at the premiere, which had been delayed until April 1894, more than fifteen years after he wrote the score.
