The Bruckner Journal

VOLUME THIRTY, NUMBER ONE

MARCH 2026

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Announcements & Awards

2026 Readers Conference at Yale

2026 Kilenyi Medal of Honor Recipients announced

Brucknertage 2026 schedule

... “Canceled, Unedited, Forgotten” ...

On the fate of Anton Bruckner's Symphony in D minor (1869)

by Rudolf Innig

Cristian Mandeal's Bruckner Cycle With The Cluj-Napoca Philharmonic Orchestra (1982-1989): A Critical Reassessment Of Eastern European Interpretative Traditions

by Martin Spiteri

Miguel Ramirez: 'Anton Bruckner and the Reception of his Music': A Psychological Commentary.

by Malcol Hatfield

Maestro Fabio Luisi Receives Bruckner Medal of Honor: The Luisian Buzz Behind the Scenes

by Jason Kiss

From Rehearsal to Performance in One Day: Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 with the Old Scotch Symphony Orchestra

by Kevin Lee

CONCERTS REVIEWED

ROME, IT SALA SANTA CECILIA 13 DECEMBER 2025

BEETHOVEN: Choral Fantasy (Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, piano)

BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 3 (1889 Nowak ed.)

Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Tugan Sokhiev

by Neil Schore

MELBOURNE, AUS ST FRANCIS CHURCH 9 NOVEMBER 2025

BRUCKNER: Locus iste, WAB 23

St Francis Choir / Tony Way

by Kevin Lee

MELBOURNE, AUS IAN ROACH HALL, SCOTCH COLLEGE 22 NOVEMBER 2025

FISHER (arr. David Wright and Jason Ha): Goin' Home (Members of the Concordis Chamber Choir)

BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 8 in C minor (1890 version) [77']

Concordis Chamber Choir, Old Scotch Symphony Orchestra / Yuki Goh

by Kevin Lee

DALLAS, US MEYERSON SYMPHONY CENTER 15,16 JANUARY 2026

BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 9 in D minor

Dallas Symphony Orchestra / Fabio Luisi

by Brian Miller

PITTSBURGH, US HEINZ HALL 21 & 22 FEBRUARY 2026

SAMY MOUSSA: Agdilis Deda - Hymn for Orchestra

BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 8 (ed. Nowak) (84')

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra / Manfred Honeck

by Sol L. Siegel

BOSTON, US SYMPHONY HALL 13 FEBRUARY 2026

BOCCHERINI/BERIO: Four original versions of “Ritirata notturna di Madrid”

SALONON: Horn Concerto (Stefan Dohr)

BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 4 in E-flat Major, “Romantic” [64:08]

Boston Symphony Orchestra / Esa-Pekka Salonen

MOZART: Piano Concert No. 20 (Kristian Bezuidenhout)

BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 7 in E Major [70:06]

Boston Philharmonic / Benjamin Zander

by Michael Cucka

MEDIA REVIEWED

BRUCKNER: Mass in D minor

Regina Riel, sop; Gerda Lischka, alt; Markus Miesenberger, ten; Michael Wagner, bar

Singakademie St Florian; Altomonte Orchestra / Matthias Giesen, cond

rec. live 8/13/2018, Stiftsbasilica St Florian, Austria

BRUCKNER: Psalm 146

Krista Renée Pape, sop; Sarah Dyer, alt; Zachary Averyt, ten; Mark Diamond, bar

Texas Music Festival Houston Chorus and Orchestra / Franz Anton Krager, cond

rec. live 6/8/2024, Moores Opera House, Houston

BRUCKNER SOCIETY OF AMERICA BSA006 (75:08)

BRUCKNER: Symphonisches Präludium

Moores School Symphony Orchestra Houston / Mursel Yavuz, cond

rec. live 3/7/2024, Moores Opera House, Houston

BRUCKNER: Helgoland (transcribed for organ by M. Bernhard)

Kevin M. Clarke, organ

rec 5/27/2025, St. John the Divine Episcopal Church, Houston

BRUCKNER: Motets

Ecce sacerdos magnus (Willow Castro, Matthew Gibbs, Steven Luong, trombones), Os justi meditabitur, Ave Maria III (Daniel Boyd, bar), Ave Maria II, Aequale II-Afferentur regi-Aequale I (Willow Castro, Matthew Gibbs, Steven Luong, trombones), Vexilla regis prodeunt, Christus factus est pro nobis, O Du liebes Jesukind (Karisma Mendoza, sop), Virga Jesse floruit, Ave Regina caelorum, Locus iste, Tota pulchra es Maria (Zach Barba, Sean Jackson, ten)

Chorus Regi Cantorum Houston / Kevin M. Clarke, cond / Gustavo Andres, org

rec. live 10/11/2024, St John Vianney Roman Catholic Church, Houston – performance in observance of 10/11/1896, the day of Bruckner's death.

BRUCKNER SOCIETY OF AMERICA BSA007 (75:22)

by James A. Altena

BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 8 in C minor (1887 Nowak ed.)

Tokyo Symphony Orchestra / Jonathan Nott

rec. 5 April 2025

EXTON OVCL-00897 Hybrid SACD

BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 8 in C minor (1887 Hawkshaw ed.)

Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra / Kenshiro Takaseki

rec. 9 June 2025

BRAIN MUSIC OSBR-41064-1/2