Brahms’s searching Gesang der Parzen (‘Song of the Fates’) is a brooding meditation on man’s destiny, expressed in a work of tremendous power. The spiritual theme continues in the joyful Te Deum by one of music’s most profound mystical explorers, Anton Bruckner.

Bruckner’s monumental Ninth Symphony is the composer’s crowning orchestral achievement, a piece that explores profound emotions yet remains possessed of a serene, radiant mysticism. Herreweghe has devoted his career to returning masterworks to their original essences, and tonight his orchestra plays instruments from Bruckner’s time.