Flora concert 3

“If the only thing Bruckner had ever written had been the slow movement to his string quintet, his reputation would have been secured for all time,” Bruckner’s contemporaries said. This Flora concert, recounting the fascination for Bach’s universe, culminates in Bruckner’s only string quintet. No less a figure than Mozart studied the scores of Bach and his sons by arranging them for strings. Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue for String Quartet even surpasses his ingenious role models by wedding traditional technique and modern subjectivity with each other. And even without an orchestra, Bruckner always touches the gates to paradise.