Fischer, Altstaedt & Budapest Festival Orchestra

The legendary Budapest Festival Orchestra under the direction of its founder Iván Fischer concludes the series of major orchestras with Bruckner's 7th Symphony and Saint-Saëns' 1st Cello Concerto. The soloist is Nicolas Altstaedt.

Founded more than 40 years ago by Iván Fischer, the Budapest Festival Orchestra has quickly gained worldwide fame and is now regularly ranked among the ten best orchestras in the world. After 25 years, the ensemble can finally be heard again at the Brucknerhaus. Nicolas Altstaedt, currently one of the most sought-after cellists in the world, will make his debut in Linz with Camille Saint-Saëns' First Cello Concerto in A minor, one of the most prominent works of literature, which once earned the composer the "rare fame" of being "already considered a classic during his lifetime", as the writer Romain Rolland put it. An appreciation that Anton Bruckner had to struggle for a long time before he finally received the recognition he longed for with his Symphony No. 7 in E major at the age of 60. For example, the press reported after the Munich premiere on March 10, 1885, that the audience was so enthusiastic. After the Munich premiere on March 10, 1885, the press reported that the audience "had not known of the existence of a composer like Bruckner in the least until recently, had expected the announced symphony to be the first work of a budding talent; and [...] when a stormy, enthusiastic applause rose to an ovation and called out the composer again and again, the majority of the audience must have been astonished to see a simple, older man on the podium instead of a youthful, lively artist [...]."