Christian Tetzlaff
What's it about?
FINALLY "When finally finally comes [...] Then be different, so that the world changes, so that it changes direction, finally!" Ingeborg Bachmann: The thirtieth year together in the 'standing now' Finally it begins - the theme to which the Brucknerfest Linz 2026 dedicates itself is nothing less than the 'establishment' of the festival itself. For its essence first and foremost includes its temporality; its beginning and its end, but at the same time the striving for infinity: in sounds, words and gestures, in thinking together and meeting each other, to use the artistic device allowed only to imagination, which transforms the either-or into the both-and, twinning finitude with infinity. For when on September 4, 2026, Riccardo Chailly and the Filarmonica della Scala commemorate Anton Bruckner's birthday 202 years ago, when Franz Welser-Möst celebrates his farewell as chief conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra on Bruckner's 130th death anniversary on October 11 after 25 years - and when, framed by these highlights, from September 13 to 30, the Brucknerhaus and all of Linz fall into a musical state of emergency, then, finally, the space of the 'Nunc stans', of the 'Standing Now', opens up: Time holds its breath, between infinite past and infinite future, the one precious moment emerges that only the shared experience of the extraordinary can conjure. Perhaps it is Immanuel Kant's "land of truth," a place of ideals, "surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, [...], where many a fog bank and many a soon-melting ice lies new lands." An island in the midst of what we call everyday life. Not a retreat, but a place of departure on the "barely discernible path of non-time [...], a kind of timeless time in which people can create timeless works to transcend their own finitude with them" (Hannah Arendt). The Brucknerfest Linz 2026 attempts to unfold this "timeless time" and thus create a listening field, a meeting place that literally concentrates us and brings us together in the finite space of the here and now. And Bruckner? His music is the sounding foundation for precisely this space "in which we can see anew, relate differently to ourselves and to the world and to the possibility of infinity," as Jagoda Marinić so urgently formulated in her keynote speech in 2025. In 2026, Bruckner will be at the center of the Brucknerfest in many forms beyond the expected: improvised, recontextualized, unconventionally arranged, creatively rethought - in world premieres and last works, debuts and farewell concerts, in familiar and new places. Andreas Meier Head of Program Planning & Dramaturgy
Where?
Alter Dom Linz
Domgasse 3
Source: Eventim
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