Bruckner: Te Deum

Anton Bruckner’s music is a labour of love for Yutaka Sado, in the concert hall and on CD. With the Tonkunstler Orchestra he has interpreted all the symphonies, beginning with the Third. So it seems only natural that Bruckner is on the programme once again as the former Music Director returns to the Tonkunstler podium as a guest for the first time – for Bruckner’s «No. 0», or as it should really be called the «Nullified». That’s because it was not in fact, as was long supposed, written before the First Symphony, but rather afterwards, as a subsequently withdrawn «Second». It is now considered an important, characteristic entry in the sequence of the early symphonies. With its swooshing sounds of ecstasy, rapture and fervour, the Te Deum represents a comparably concise yet monumental later work from the ambit of the Seventh Symphony. Together with the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno and a hand-picked team of soloists, the Tonkunstler Orchestra under Yutaka Sado’s baton invoke the heavenly hosts in a great celebratory praise of God.