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Romanticismo en estado puro: Mena y Ehnes con la Orquesta Nacional de España

By Leonardo Mattana Ereño, 03 October 2021
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Reviewed at Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid on 2 October 2021
Programme
Brahms, Violin Concerto in D major, Op.77
Schumann, Symphony no. 4 in D minor, Op.120
Performers
James Ehnes, Violin
Orquesta Nacional de España
Juanjo Mena, Conductor
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Leonardo Mattana Ereño
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.