A weekend's music devoted to Anton Bruckner. First, the 7th Symphony with Eduard van Beinum (1952); then the 8th Symphony with Bernard Haitink (2005) -- the orchestra being the magnificent Concertgebouw Orchestra in both cases. Haitink is, for the moment, the last in the line of Bruckner conductors that includes Furtwängler, Klemperer, Horenstein, Knappertsbusch, Jochum and Wand. Conducting Bruckner is becoming a lost art. I enjoyed my Bruckner sessions. Unlike Brahms' orchestral music, Bruckner knows when to relax during his long journeys.  And Haitink is a much under-rated conductor. Both recordings courtesy of Ronald. Eat my usual weekend two kilos of moules marinières; they go well with Bruckner.