François-Xavier Roth & Les Siècles

Deify - Bruckner's 9th Symphony in the original sound.

Anton Bruckner's symphonies are undisputedly among the pinnacle works of the 19th century. However, we have become accustomed to hearing them performed on modern instruments whose sound does not correspond to the intentions of their creator. Bruckner wrote for string instruments with gut strings, which are both softer sounding and more blendable, and from 1868 onwards decidedly for Viennese woodwind and brass instruments, whose colours were different to those we know from the instruments commonly used today. The result is a completely different overall sound that allows Bruckner's music to appear in a new light. For the first time in the world, all eleven of Bruckner's symphonies will be performed in their original sound as part of the International Bruckner Festival Linz 2024, a journey of discovery in eleven concerts that can only be heard as a cycle at the Brucknerhaus Linz and exclusively in Austria.


Programme:
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony No. 41 ("Jupiter") in C major, KV 551 (1788)

- Intermission -

Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918-1970)
Silence and Conversion. Orchestral sketches (1970)

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, WAB 109 (1887-94)


Orchestration:
Les Siècles
François-Xavier Roth | Conductor