Welser-Möst conducts the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in this 1989 recording of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony. The interpretation by these young performers was astonishing in its...

Welser-Möst conducts the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in this 1989 recording of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony. The interpretation by these young performers was astonishing in its transcendence and manner of outlining the work’s musical contrasts. It’s no surprise that the press greeted the conductor and orchestra as a sensation and great hope for the future.