Daniel Barenboim’s performance of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, heard Thursday night at Orchestra Hall, made no apologies for the work’s sprawling rhetoric.

For nearly five decades, Daniel Barenboim has been making a case for the symphonies of Anton Bruckner. Tonight at Carnegie Hall, the conductor begins a complete cycle of Bruckner's nine numbered ...

Barenboim's cycle ... a vastation'' as thinkers and theologians of Bruckner's time often termed breakdown and purgation of the spirit. When it comes to the great central tetralogy, Symphonies Nos. 5-8 ...

Another was the flexibility of Barenboim’s speeds…. The flexibility of Barenboim’s tempi meant that Bruckner’s charm – an often overlooked aspect of his genius – shone through ...

By Zachary Woolfe Students from the Middle East come to Berlin to study music with the star conductor Daniel Barenboim ... from the Venetian Republic and a Bruckner cycle — will continue ...

But not Daniel Barenboim. This is because Barenboim is a Bruckner Guy, and his devotion has been lifelong. Most of the great conductors have had a preference for either Bruckner or Mahler ...

By Zachary Woolfe On Jan. 20, 1957, a 14-year-old pianist named Daniel Barenboim made his Carnegie ... a triumphant Bruckner cycle with the Staatskapelle in 2017, nine concerts in which he paired ...