The Upper Austria Concert Series 2024.25 THE BRUCKNER ORCHESTRA LINZ CAN BE EXPERIENCED IN ITS OWN CONCERT SERIES WITH FIVE ORCHESTRA CONCERTS IN THE 2024/25 SEASON.
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#ONE: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DENNIS!
Sunday, 17.11.2024 | 4.00 pm
Another significant figure for the BOL celebrates a milestone birthday in 2024: its long-time chief conductor Dennis Russell Davies, who celebrated his 80th birthday in April amidst his numerous musical commitments. For the long-overdue reunion with the BOL and Linz, the jubilarian, always open to change and transformation, has chosen the less popular of Tchaikovsky’s piano concertos and a Rachmaninoff symphony for the wish and program list – and has won the great Elisabeth Leonskaja, a living legend, as a soloist.
Program
Piotr I. Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 44
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44
Elisabeth Leonskaja // Piano
Dennis Russell Davies // Conductor
#TWO: ALPINE SYMPHONY
Friday, 20 December 2024 | 7.30 pm
By their nature, even the Bavarian Pre-Alps are always good for a mountain drama, as the young Richard Strauss experienced when he lost his way on the Heimgarten in 1879 and got caught in a thunderstorm. David Afkham, chief conductor of the Spanish National Orchestra, and the BOL lead into the sound massif of Strauss’ profound and musically unquestionably high-alpine narrative. Before that, there is an encounter with Matthias Goerne, one of the leading song interpreters of his generation, with selected songs by Hugo Wolf in a version for voice and orchestra.
PROGRAM
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) Selected Songs for Voice and Orchestra
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) An Alpine Symphony, Op. 64 Symphonic Poem (1915)
Matthias Goerne // Baritone
David Afkham // Conductor
#THREE: TCHAIKOVSKY’S MANFRED
Friday, 28 March 2025 | 7.30 pm
When the program is the program, it is not a tautology. Rather, it is an evening with two program symphonies. The first is – world premiere! – the orchestral Bruckner confrontation by the legendary Christoph Cech, who, as a composer, pianist, teacher, arranger, conductor, and bandleader, connects jazz and new music, among other things. Strong stuff afterwards: Tchaikovsky’s epic auditory realization of Byron’s Manfred, featuring incest, retreat, and death. The setting: again the Alps.
Program
Christoph Cech (*1960) Bruckner (World Premiere)
Piotr I. Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Manfred Symphony in B minor, Op. 58
Markus Poschner // Conductor
#FOUR: BEETHOVEN’S OVERTURES
Friday, 16 May 2025 | 7.30 pm
Everything has been said about the qualities of a magnificent prelude, it just needs to be performed: on this evening four times in a row, with Markus Poschner and the BOL practically and sensually examining the hypothesis that four Beethoven overtures together form something like the equivalent of a symphony. The familiar concert reality will be minimally shaken; programmatically, it is the opposite with Johannes Maria Staud’s powerful composition from 2023. At the center of the tremor is the soloist Christoph Sietzen, celebrated as a shooting star and a former BOL orchestra academy member.
Program
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Fidelio Overture, Op. 72
Johannes Maria Staud (*1974) Whereas the Reality Trembles for Percussion and Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Leonore Overture 1, 2 & 3 in C major, Op. 138 and Op. 72a
Christoph Sietzen // Percussion
Markus Poschner // Conductor
#FIVE: MAHLER’S FOURTH
Thursday, 26 June 2025 | 7.30 pm
Already turning towards heaven, Richard Strauss, in a farewell mood shortly before the end of his eventful life, sets to music poems by his contemporary Hermann Hesse and the Romantic Joseph von Eichendorff. The four of these last orchestral songs by Strauss in their own way form a bridge to Mahler’s Fourth, which in turn refers to Des Knaben Wunderhorn and thus also to poetry with almost unlimited half-life. Although the sky is “full of violins” in it, Mahler was not spared a hellish disappointment at the time: the premiere was a failure.
Program
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Four Last Songs, TrV 296 for Soprano and Orchestra
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) Symphony No. 4 in G major for Orchestra and Soprano Solo
Erica Eloff // Soprano
Markus Poschner // Conductor
