Celebrating Linz's favourite son: a majestic Eighth

By Mark Pullinger, 07 May 2018

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

Reviewed at Symphony Hall, Birmingham on 6 May 2018

Mozart, Symphony no. 35 in D major, "Haffner”, K385

Bruckner, Symphony no. 8 in C minor, WAB 108

Bruckner Orchester Linz

Markus Poschner, Conductor

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.

****1

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.

*****

Hindemith's Die Harmonie der Welt in Linz

Hugo Shirley, 11th April

Hindemith's opera, based on the life and theories of Johannes Kepler, is impressively realised by the Landestheater

****1

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.

***11

Terra Nova larger than life at the Landestheater Linz

Chanda VanderHart, 26th May

I can certainly attest that this was the closest I have ever felt to watching a 3-D thriller in Dolby Surround Sound whilst at the opera.

****1

Polished Glass from Bruckner Orchester Linz

Mark Pullinger, 22nd April

A mixed evening at Cadogan Hall, with Philip Glass' Ninth Symphony emerging much more strongly than some stodgy Beethoven.

***11

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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