Article: A taut yet expansive reading drawing on a lifetime's experience; Dresden Staatskapelle Symphony Hall Birmingham University Music Society Orchestra The Great Hall, Birmingham University.(Review)

Byline: Christopher Morley

Conductor Bernard Haitink and the music of Anton Bruckner hold a very special place in this listener's affections, encountering them both for the first time nearly 40 years ago in a Prom concert at the Royal Albert Hall.

As on that memorable occasion, at Symphony Hall on Saturday a Bruckner symphony was preceded by a Mozart masterpiece in Haitink's programme, a telling juxtaposition of one composer to whom inspiration seemed to come so easily and one who had to ...

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