J. S. Bach, arr. A. Guilmant
Cantata 'Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir', BWV 29 – Sinfonia 5'
J. S. Bach
Chorale Prelude 'Allein Gott in der Höh' sei Ehr', BWV 662 8'
Chorale Prelude 'Komm, Gott Schöpfer, heiliger Geist', BWV 667 3'
Chorale Prelude 'Vor deinem Thron tret' ich hiermit', BWV 668 5'
Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543 10'
interval
Bruckner
Symphony No. 8 in C minor (1890 version, ed. Nowak) 85'
Klaus Sonnleitner organ
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Lorin Maazel conductor
Who better to open tonight's Prom than Klaus Sonnleitner, present-day organist at St Florian's Abbey, Linz, where Bruckner himself became organist almost 160 years ago.
Lorin Maazel conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in Bruckner's Eighth Symphony, a vivid realisation of the self-doubting composer's lifelong ambition to build upon the legacies of Beethoven, Schubert and Wagner.