Click here to visit our new site --> CafeDVD 2.0 Bruckner: Sym. 8: Giulini (1985) Rating: Starring: Anton Bruckner Director: Category: Music, Special Interest Studio: Image Ent. Subtitles: [None] Length: 95 mins     World Philharmonic Orchestra The WORLD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA was created so that through the universal language of music, once a year since 1985 in a single concert, music would be the instrument of a message of peace and fraternity of the whole international community, uniting and bringing closer all nations through the participation of soloists who represent symphonic orchestras from 60 countries.The receipts from this annual concert benefit an international humanitarian institution each year. Anton Bruckner lived until age 72 (1824-1896).Wagner described him as the only real symphonist since Beethoven.Bruckner wrote nine symphonies, the ninth unfinished.He was the eldest of eleven children of a poor village schoolmaster and had more responsibilities than advantages, but he somehow managed to prepare himself to become an organist, teacher and composer.After years of struggle, he became a professor at the Vienna Conservatory and earned enough to permit himself to compose at ease. His symphonies, characterized as "the monumentalization of his organ improvisation," require from an hour to 1-3/4 hours to perform.They are mystical and deeply and fearfully earnest. During his lifetime, he was compared, to his disadvantage, with Brahms, who was nine years his junior and as anti-Wagner as Bruckner was pro-Wagner.Since his death, there has been an increasing realization that he was really born out of his time.He did not belong in the 19th century. The melodic grandeur of Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 is as apparent as its constructive weaknesses.The symphony needed a long time to mature.Its earliest sketches go back to October 1884, and the Finale was completed in August of 1887.The first performance took place in Vienna on December 18, 1892.