musicAeterna vuelve a Madrid con el Wagner sinfónico de Maazel

By Leonardo Mattana Ereño, 06 February 2026

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“una capacidad de dotar de sentido profundo lo que a primera vista podría parecer como un mero efecto”

Reviewed at Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid on 5 February 2026

Wagner, The Ring without Words

Teodor Currentzis, Conductor

musicAeterna

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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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.

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