If you’re a bit of a skeptic on the subject of Bruckner’s symphonies — and let’s speak frankly here, some of us are — the Third Symphony is not the piece that’s going to help you see the light. It ...

At 94, Herbert Blomstedt is back on the Boston Symphony Orchestra podium this week, and it’s a beautiful thing. The music, yes — Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony — but also the sheer profusion of grace, ...

As a child in Stockholm, Herbert Blomstedt was introduced to Bruckner when Wilhelm Furtwängler, no less, directed a performance of the Seventh to general bewilderment. The ghost of that maestro’s ...