#freebrahms (in der Reihe AN.TON.HÖREN)

Education concert in the series AN.TON.HÖREN

Inspiring children, adolescents and young adults for classical music, reducing barriers to emerging and enabling people from all social groups to access cultural events is one of the core concerns of Brucknerhaus Linz. The series AN.TON.HÖREN opens up new insights into the world of music with unusual concert projects and educational programs.

The STEGREIF.orchestra has enjoyed great succes since 2015 with its genre-transcending programmes, which take masterpieces of the symphonic repertory as a starting-point and combine classic with jazz, world music and techno. This unorthodox artistic approach frees both the musicians and the public from their listening habits and usual patterns of thought, as well as from the rules of applause and dress codes. The exciting legacy of classical music, under the influence of a variety of musical styles, undergoes a re-interpretation of performative and visual potency. The ensemble performs without music, without a conductor and without chairs, and the freedom that this brings creates space for improvisation and movement.

#freebrahms releases the avant-garde spark slumbering in the 135-year-old bars of the 3^rd Symphony of Johannes Brahms. The 30 musicians move about the stage and the auditorium with no reserve about the proximity of their music to the audience, achieving a totally new sound performance in the course of four 15-minute movements. This programme, into which excerpts of Bruckner's 4^th Symphony have been specially incorporated for these appearances at the Bruckner Festival, represents the first appearance of the STEGREIF.orchestra in Linz.

Programme

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)

Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90 (1883)

Arranged and re-composed, as well as a short excerpt from Anton Bruckner's (1824–1896) Symphony No.4 in Eb major, WAB 104 (1874, rev. 1877–80) „1878/80 version“, enhanced by Alistair Duncan (* 1991), Wolf Kerschek (* 1969) and Juri de Marco [BHP] (* 1993).