Page 138 - Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Coverage Book 2023-24

04 December 2023

Total immersion: the Glasshouse's Big Bruckner Weekend features his final
three symphonies, a mass, motets & more
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Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia (Photo: Mark Savage)
Next year is the 200th anniversary of Bruckner's birth, so expect plenty of celebrations
of the composer's music, though the sheer scale of his symphonies makes anything like
completeness difficult. The Glasshouse in Gateshead is having a Big Bruckner Weekend
from 1 to 3 March 2024 offering audiences the opportunity to immerse themselves in
final three symphonies, his motets, one of his masses and even his String Quintet.

Across the weekend, Domingo Hindoyan conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in
Bruckner’s Symphony No.7, Sir Mark Elder and The Hallé perform Bruckner’s Symphony No.
8 and Alpesh Chauhan conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Bruckner's
unfinished Symphony No. 9.

Thomas Zehetmair conducts the Royal Northern Sinfonia & chorus in Bruckner's Mass No. 3 with
soloists Elizabeth Watts, Hannah Hipp, Thomas Atkins and Mark Stone, whilst throughout the
weekend the chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia will be performing Bruckner's motets, conducted by
Timothy Burke, and string principals of Royal Northern Sinfonia perform Bruckner’s String Quintet.

Full details from the Glasshouse website.