Enigmas escatológicos con Nott y la Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester

By Leonardo Mattana Ereño, 14 March 2019

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Reviewed at Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid on 13 March 2019

Berg, Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op.6

Mahler, Rückert-Lieder

Rueda, La Tierra

Shostakovich, Symphony no. 15 in A major, Op.141

Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester

Jonathan Nott, Conductor

Elena Zhidkova, Soprano

In these sacred halls: a long Sunday at the Enescu Festival

Peter Quantrill, 7th September

Bucharest’s temples of culture present rites of closure by Mozart, Kurtág and Bruckner… and a fleeting glimpse of Nirvana.

****1

Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and Martha Argerich in Évian

David Karlin, 2nd July

Argerich shows her full artistry, while Europe's young musicians show impressive coordination and dynamics, if short of emotion in Beethoven 7.

****1

Bluebeard as psychothriller in Castellucci's mismatched double bill

George Jahn, 2nd August

Romeo Castellucci's intense production of Bartók's opera reaps its rewards in the performance under Teodor Currentzis, but Carl Orff's opera-oratorio De temporum fine comoedia feels little more than a drab filler.

***11

Prom 60: Intimations of mortality

Matthew Rye, 30th August

Bach in morbid mood and valedictory Bruckner brought to life by young musicians under the baton of Philippe Jordan

***11

Young Mahlerites show extraordinary insights at Salzburg

Jonathan Sutherland, 24th August

The multinational Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra proves that adolescence is no barrier to maturity in profound symphonic music making.

****1

Prom 56: Immaculate Ravel from Thibaudet

David Karlin, 24th August

German bombast. French joie de vivre. Russian soul-searching. You could hardly ask for more contrast in the principal themes of last night’s Prom, with Philippe Jordan conducting the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, from the military pomp of Wagner’s overture to Rienzi to the fairground whirl of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major.

***11

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Leonardo Mattana Ereño

Leonardo Mattana (1988) es Doctor en filosofía por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. También ha cursado estudios de piano, composición, teoría musical e historia de la música en el conservatorio de Sassari (Italia). Sus pasiones musicales son trasversales, privilegiando la música sinfónica y de cámara, pero sobre todo, buscando siempre en la experiencia estética de la música elementos de reflexión.

Enigmas escatológicos con Jonathan Nott y la Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester