…this time Bruckner…

…after a Mozart concerto.

Bruckner is not the sort of thing you walk away from humming a tune, but it does demonstrate the power of an orchestra, especially one well well equipped with brass, including four Wagner tubas.

Most moving to me was the unscheduled Ukraninian folk song played as an opening piece, followed my a period of silence. Conductor Ken-David Masur, who grew up behind the iron curtain, and last conducted the Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in Moscow, explained how colleagues in Russia have been calling him to apologize for their country.