El violonchelo por las calles de Madrid: Boccherini y La Ritirata

By Leonardo Mattana Ereño, 18 October 2021

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Reviewed at Círculo de Bellas Artes: Teatro Fernando de Rojas, Madrid on 17 October 2021

Boccherini, String Quintet no. 1 in B flat major, Op.39

Boccherini, String Trio in G major no.2, G. 102 (Minuetto)

Boccherini, La Musica Notturna delle Strade di Madrid in C major, Op.30 no.6, G 324

Boccherini, String Quartet in G major, Op.44 no. 4, G. 223, "La Tirana"

Boccherini, Cello Concerto no. 7 in G major, G 480 (Adagio)

Boccherini, String Quintet in D major, Op.40 no. 2, G. 341

La Ritirata

Josetxu Obregón, Cello, Conductor

A dream of a Gerontius from Pappano, the LSO and Chorus

Roy Westbrook, 21st April

Giving their 27th performance of the oratorio, the London Symphony Chorus excel as angelic angels and demonic demons.

****1

Benedetti ablaze with the Philharmonia

Christopher Woodley, 19th April

As gifts to the Philarmonia's 80th birthday season, Nicola Benedetti gives a barnstorming account of Elgar's Violin Concerto before Cristian Mӑcelaru gets emotionally drained by La Mer.

*****

Nicholas McGegan brings delicacy and elegance to Mendelssohn

Erica Miner, 18th April

The Seattle Symphony offers an enchanting evening immersed in the joy and brilliance of both the young and the mature genius of Felix Mendelssohn.

****1

Wrangling the octopus: Mahler’s Ninth with Sir Simon Rattle

Chanda VanderHart, 17th April

Less a symphony, more a force of nature, Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in a turbulent, yet spacious reading of Mahler's Ninth Symphony in the Musikverein.

****1

Picture postcard Spain from the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia

Phil Parker, 17th April

Vibrant, colourful music is played with every last ounce of enthusiasm as the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia rounds off its UK tour at Sheffield City Hall.

****1

Tarmo Peltokoski conducts the Hallé in Mahler and Vaughan Williams

Leighton Jones, 16th April

Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder provide an apt, if somewhat unexpected, partner to Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall.

****1

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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.

El violonchelo por las calles de Madrid: Boccherini con La Ritirata en Círculo de Bellas Artes