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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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