Programme

For this new concert in the El so original series, maestro Jordi Savall has chosen two very rarely performed symphonies by essential Romantic composers: Schumann and Bruckner. In his youth, almost a decade before he truly began composing the symphonic music he had dreamed of, Robert Schumann wrote an orchestral piece that he left unfinished, known as the “Zwickau” Symphony. In its two movements he already shows boundless imagination. Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 0 is one of three he wrote. Although it contains the embryo of the genius of his later work, the composer himself, always insecure and sensitive to criticism, withdrew it from his catalogue. In this concert the two works accompany Schubert’s mysterious Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished”, which, curiously enough, remains one of his most famous orchestral works, despite its incompleteness.