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DESCRIPTION:Jun 4-6\, 2026\nThe symphonic literature holds no greater chall
 enge than Bruckner’s Eighth\, which occupied the composer from 1884 to 1
 892. Early reactions to the score caused him no end of grief. His staunch 
 champion Hermann Levi (remembered as the first conductor of Wagner’s Par
 sifal)\, sent Bruckner back to the drawing board\, deeming the first manus
 cript unperformable. After extensive revisions\, Munich scheduled the prem
 iere but repeatedly postponed it. When Vienna sprang into the breach\, eac
 h break between movements brought new defections from the hall\; the kingp
 in critic Eduard Hanslick (whom Wagner caricatured in Die Meistersinger as
  the insufferable pedant Beckmesser) dismissed the Eighth as “repellent.
 ” Yet posterity came to regard its exploration of spiritual struggle\, y
 earning\, and ultimate triumph as one of the most profound works in the sy
 mphonic canon. The fact that New York’s two principal orchestras would p
 erform the work in a single week beggars belief. There’s much to hope fo
 r from the New York Philharmonic’s interpretation under Semyon Bychkov\,
  a bullet-proof technician who is also a thinker and a seeker (June 4\, 5\
 , 6). That may be a hard act for Yves Nézet-Séguin and the Met Orchestra
  to follow at Carnegie Hall (June 11). Nézet-Séguin isn’t one to lose 
 his nerve\; no matter how taxing the assignment\, he’s game and he makes
  it to the finish line. He’s a personable ambassador for the high arts\,
  but he’s no deep diver\, and his performances\, too often\, are lite. C
 onrad L. Osborne\, doyen of American opera critics and standard bearer of 
 the values of an age invested in classical music just as our own is invest
 ed in nothing of cultural import\, characterized Nézet-Séguin for the ag
 es in his dissection of the Met’s new Tristan und Isolde\, “From time 
 to time\, I glanced down at Nézet-Séguin and his players\,” said Osbor
 ne\, who perches by choice in the first row of the Family Circle\, where t
 he acoustics are best\, “and saw him working away with broad\, eager ges
 tures like a passionate lecturer at the base of Mt. Rushmore.”
LOCATION:David Geffen Hall\, Lincoln Center\, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza\, New
  York\, NY 10023
SUMMARY:New York Philharmonic: Semyon Bychkov Conducts Bruckner's Eighth
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