A rousing Mahler from Linz in Vienna

Markus Poschner and the Bruckner Orchestra Linz played the Fifth Bruckner brilliantly in the Musikverein.

Far and wide no trace of routine, no suspicion of subscriber feed: the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and its chief conductor Markus Poschner showed the flag – and that was precisely with a piece as stressed as Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. It often smells like a misunderstood reparation when Mahler’s works are often played back excessively after times of oblivion and prohibition. How the quality of the reproduction suffers.

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