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Bruckner's Symphony No. 1

KWIT | By Mark Munger

Published June 24, 2015 at 4:13 PM CDT

Yesterday we played Beethoven's Third, the work that more than any other established the modern idea of Symphony. Today we hear Bruckner's First (Linz version), the beginning (OK, well there is the No. 0) of an oeuvre that returned the form to fashion after the death of Schumann.

Sir George Solti directs the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

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Mark Munger first began listening to public radio as a child in the back of his Mom's VW Vanagon, falling in love with the stories on Morning Edition and Prairie Home Companion and the laughter of Click and Clack on Car Talk. Through KWIT, he was introduced to the great orchestras and jazz artists, the sounds of folk and blues, and the eclectic expressions of humanity. This American Life and Radiolab arrived in his formative college years and made him want nothing more than to be a part of the public radio world.

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