MusicAeterna y Teodor Currentzis en Madrid con Strauss y Chaikovski

By Jorge Baeza Stanicic, 20 May 2023

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Reviewed at Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid on 17 May 2023

Strauss R., Metamorphosen

Tchaikovsky, Symphony no. 6 in B minor, "Pathétique", Op.74

musicAeterna

Teodor Currentzis, Conductor

A hole in the heart: Salzburg Festival’s new Don Giovanni

Hugo Shirley, 4th August

The pairing of controversial director and bad-boy conductor brings some thrills but the Salzburg Festival's new Don Giovanni proves disappointingly uninvolving.

***11

An online Beethovenathon: all nine symphonies across Europe in one day

Alexander Hall, 6th June

An all-day Beethoven experience European style with both highs and lows: much diversity revealed and exploited but of variable quality.

***11

An outstanding New York debut for Teodor Currentzis and musicAeterna

Edward Sava-Segal, 21st November

In Currentzis' vision, Verdi's Requiem was both a spectacle and a soul-searching exercise for the musicians, as well as for the listeners.

****1

An evangelical happening in Aix

Mark Valencia, 14th April

The musicians of MusicAeterna were impassioned, engaged and energised into a single force in this performance of Verdi's Requiem at the Aix Easter Festival.

****1

Cool brilliance: Currentzis conducts Mahler at the Philharmonie

Hugo Shirley, 5th December

Theodor Currentzis and his musicAeterna bring blistering detail and revelatory playing to Wunderhorn-period Mahler, but it ultimately proves short on warmth.

****1

Electrifying Beethoven from Currentzis and musicAeterna

Mark Pullinger, 28th July

The Greek conductor and his hand-picked Russian orchestra offer high-voltage Beethoven that crackles.

*****

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Jorge Baeza Stanicic

Jorge Baeza es Profesor Superior de Piano y ha trabajado enseñando a tocar este instrumento en las Escuelas de Música Ayensa y Santa Cecilia, ambas en Madrid. Ha perfeccionado su técnica pedagógica con diversos maestros y ha complementado su formación con estudios sobre las aplicaciones de la Técnica Alexander a la interpretación musical. De forma paralela es autor del blog Tritono Music News (www.tritonomusicnews.com) orientado a la explicación pedagógica de contenidos musicales. En Bachtrack colabora redactando reseñas de conciertos desde el 2016 y actualmente desempeña su labor como Bibliotecario en el Ayuntamiento de Madrid.