Bruckner Orchester Linz
The Bruckner Orchester Linz ("Bruckner Orchestra of Linz") is one of the few large orchestras devoted to a composer of the late Romantic era; with between 110 and 130 members, depending on repertory, it is well equipped to realize the giant scores of Anton Bruckner, who came from the Linz area where the orchestra is based. Its repertory extends well beyond the music of Bruckner, however, and it has broadened as the orchestra's international reach has increased.
Like many other regional European orchestras, the Bruckner Orchester Linz had its beginnings as a theater orchestra for the Landestheater in Linz. The group still contributes musical aspects to stage productions at the Upper Austrian State Theater. In 1938, the ensemble was converted into a "Reichsgau orchestra," an administrative unit of Austria's new Nazi regime. In 1967, at the initiative of chief conductor (and scholar) Kurt Wöss, it became the Linzer Theater- und Symphonieorchester and, shortly after that, assumed its present form. After the retirement of Wöss in 1975, Theodor Guschlbauer took up the baton, and the orchestra continued under the direction of a succession of Austrian conductors.
That changed in 2002 with the hiring of Dennis Russell Davies. He remained true to the orchestra's traditions, helming a complete cycle of Bruckner's symphonies that was issued on the Arte Nova label and concluded in 2010. He also expanded the orchestra's activities; it now performs at such nontraditional events as the Linzer Klangwolke (an outdoor "cloud of sound" at the city's Danube Park). Under Davies, the orchestra made tours throughout Europe, Turkey, and Japan. In 2017, Markus Poschner assumed the music directorship of the orchestra.
The regular concerts of the Bruckner Orchester Linz are based at the Brucknerhaus Linz concert hall, but it also performs frequently around the state of Upper Austria, at the Wienerkonzerthaus and the Musikverein hall in Vienna (where since 2012, the group has mounted their own concert series), at the Stephaniensaal in Graz, and the Großes Festspielhaus in Salzburg. The Bruckner Orchester Linz has recorded several albums by composer Philip Glass and others for Glass' Orange Mountain Music label (with which Davies has worked closely); its album of selections by Arvo Pärt appeared on the label in 2018. In 2021, Giedrė Šlekytė became the orchestra's first female principal guest conductor. Both Davies and Poschner remained active with the Bruckner Orchester Linz on recordings; Davies helmed the 2020 album Africa Sings, featuring vocalist Angélique Kidjo (in Glass' Three Ifé Songs), while Poschner continued to record a cycle of Bruckner symphonies that featured all the variant performances of those works; by 2023, the cycle reached the 1887 version of the Symphony No. 8 in C minor.
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Discography
17 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108 "Apocalyptic" (1890 Version)
Markus Poschner, Bruckner Orchester Linz
Classical - Released by Capriccio on 5/11/2021
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bruckner: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, WAB 101 (1866-1868 Linz version)
Bruckner Orchester Linz, Markus Poschner
Classical - Released by Capriccio on 5/01/2024
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A Major, WAB 106
Markus Poschner, Bruckner Orchester Linz
Classical - Released by CapriccioNR on 3/09/2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bruckner: Symphony in D Minor, WAB 100 "Die Nullte"
Bruckner Orchester Linz, Markus Poschner
Classical - Released by Capriccio on 4/02/2022
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, WAB 102 (1877 Version, Ed. W. Carragan)
Bruckner Orchester Linz, Markus Poschner
Classical - Released by Capriccio on 1/09/2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Isang Yun : Sunrise Falling
Matt Haimovitz, Maki Namekawa, Christoph Bielefeld, Yumi Hwang-Williams, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies
Concertos - Released by PentaTone on 18/09/2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108 (1887 Version)
Bruckner Orchester Linz, Markus Poschner
Classical - Released by Capriccio on 3/02/2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat Major, WAB 104 "Romantic" (2nd Version)
Bruckner Orchester Linz, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Markus Poschner
Classical - Released by CapriccioNR on 6/05/2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, WAB 103 "Wagner" (1889 Version, Ed. L. Nowak)
Bruckner Orchester Linz, Markus Poschner
Classical - Released by Capriccio on 1/03/2024
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bruckner: Complete Symphonies (Leopold Nowak Editions)
Kurt Eichhorn, Bruckner Orchester Linz
Symphonic Music - Released by Camerata Tokyo on 18/05/2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bruckner: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, WAB 101 (1891 Vienna Version, Ed. G. Brosche)
Bruckner Orchester Linz, Markus Poschner
Classical - Released by Capriccio on 3/05/2024
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Europe a symphonic vision by Christian Kolonovits
Sacred Oratorios - Released by homebase-records on 22/10/2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Korngold: Fairytale Pictures and other Orchestral Music
Bruckner Orchester Linz, Caspar Richter
Classical - Released by Decca (UMO) on 1/01/2001
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Bruckner: Symphonie No. 6 (Mono Version)
Bruckner Orchester Linz, Georg Ludwig Jochum
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1/01/1953
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Korngold: Einfache Lieder; Much Ado About Nothing; Abschiedslieder
Gigi Mitchell-Velasco, Stephen Gould, Jochem Hochstenbach, Ladies of The Mozart Choir, Linz, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Caspar Richter
Classical - Released by Decca (UMO) on 1/01/2002
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Korngold: Schauspiel Overture, Piano Quintet, String Quartet No.2, Tomorrow
Bruckner Orchester Linz, Caspar Richter, The Schubert Ensemble, The Flesch Quartet, Gigi Mitchell-Velasco, Ladies of The Mozart Choir, Linz
Classical - Released by Decca (UMO) on 1/07/2002
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Korngold: Sursum corda; Baby Serenade; Interlude
Bruckner Orchester Linz, Caspar Richter
Classical - Released by Decca (UMO) on 1/01/2000
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo