Celebrating Linz's favourite son: a majestic Eighth

Von Mark Pullinger, 07 Mai 2018

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“The timpanist's galloping assault was explosive, like Wotan thundering onto the stage”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Symphony Hall, Birmingham, am 6 Mai 2018

Mozart, Symphonie Nr. 35 in D-Dur, "Haffner", KV385

Bruckner, Symphonie Nr. 8 in c-Moll, WAB108

Bruckner Orchester Linz

Markus Poschner, Musikalische Leitung

Hindemiths Die Harmonie der Welt in Linz

Hugo Shirley, 11th April

Hindemiths Oper, die auf dem Leben und den Theorien Johannes Keplers basiert, wird vom Landestheater beeindruckend umgesetzt.

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Terra Nova überlebensgroß am Landestheater Linz

Chanda VanderHart, 26th May

Eine Erfahrung, als sähe man einen Thriller in 3-D mit Dolby Surround - im Opernhaus.

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Bolcolms McTeague genießt goldene Europapremiere in Linz

Chanda VanderHart, 6th February

Bolcolms McTeague, eine zweiaktige Oper auf der Basis von Frank Norris' Roman McTeague: A Story of San Francisco von 1899 wurde bei ihrer europäischen Erstaufführung am Landestheater Linz sehr wohlwollend aufgenommen.

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Tristan und Isolde arrives in Linz from Bayreuth

Ako Imamura, 25th December

25 years after its creation in Bayreuth, Director Heiner Müller's legendary production of Tristan und Isolde was recreated and presented in Linz with committed performers with great success.

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Intimate and epic Mahler 2 from the Bruckner Orchester Linz

Rohan Shotton, 3rd May

Markus Poschner conducts the Bruckner Orchester Linz and Bournemouth Symphony Chorus in Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony in London.

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Bruckner Orchester Linz in Chicago

Sam Jacobson, 3rd February

The Bruckner Orchester Linz’s Chicago appearance was centered on American music with music director Dennis Russell Davies and vocalist Angélique Kidjo, rounded off by a Zemlinsky song cycle based on African-American poetry.

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Celebrating Linz's favourite son: a majestic Eighth from the Bruckner Orchester Linz in Birmingham