The year 2024 marked the centenary of two major disappearances from the classical world: that of Gabriel Fauré and that of Giacomo Puccini. 2024 was also the 200th birthday of one of the greatest symphonists of Germanic culture: the Austrian Anton Bruckner.
Long misunderstood, even despised by a part of the musical world, the man remains too often in the shadow of a Mahler who admired him. For Daniel Barenboïm, who did not hesitate to return to the profession, the complete symphonies which he had already recorded twice in the past, "there is an exalted and twilight"