Wiener KammerOrchester: un virtuosismo diferente con Varvara y Miura

By David Santana Cañas, 29 April 2021

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Reviewed at Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid on 28 April 2021

Mozart, Violin Concerto no. 5 in A major "Turkish", K219

Mozart, Piano Concerto no. 8 in C major, "Lutzow", K246

Mozart, Symphony no. 29 in A major, K201 (K186a)

Fumiaki Miura, Violin

Varvara Nepomnyashchaya, Piano

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Chanda VanderHart, 15th May

Director Nikolaus Habjan took Oberon’s inherent miscellany and ran with it, straight into a retro-futurism aesthetic.

****1

A visually strong Der Kaiser von Atlantis at the Kammeroper

Chanda VanderHart, 11th January

To those unfamiliar with Victor Ullman’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis, oder Die Tod-Verweigerung, the story of the work’s inception is almost as gripping as the libretto itself.

***11

Out of the Woods: an urban Hänsel und Gretel

Chanda VanderHart, 14th May

A very creative reading – both scenically and musically – of Engelbert Humperdinck’s fairy tale opera Hänsel und Gretel for Theater an der Wien's final production of the season at the Kammeroper.

****1

A Viennese whirl through Mozart masterpieces in Bogotá

Mark Pullinger, 2nd April

Bogotá has plenty of superb artists in its mammoth Mozart-fest, but there can be no finer exponents of Viennese style than the Vienna Chamber Orchestra.

*****

Babar charms all ages at the Konzerthaus

Chanda VanderHart, 4th October

In yesterday’s matinee concert at the Konzerthaus, the Wiener KammerOrchester, Stefan Vladar and Thomas Quasthoff presented music by Mozart, Prokofiev and Poulenc in a family-friendly format.

****1

Mill's will get you anything – and in La cambiale di matrimonio at the Vienna Kammeroper, you can't ask for more

Snapdragon, 21st October

A father having marriage plans for his daughter of which the latter does not approve may not be the most original plot, but it has inspired operas throughout the centuries, with well-known examples being The Bartered Bride and Arabella.

****1

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David Santana Cañas

David Santana (Bilbao, 1996) comienza sus estudios de música en la especialidad de fagot en el Conservatorio Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga de Bilbao. En 2014 se traslada a Madrid, donde cursa el grado en Musicología en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y continúa y finaliza sus estudios musicales de fagot en el Conservatorio Adolfo Salazar de Madrid. Actualmente se encuentra ampliando su formación con la realización del Máster de Investigación de Música Española e Hispanoamericana en la UCM.