Ravel, Mahler y Eschenbach: palingenesia del demiurgo

By Ramón del Buey Cañas, 18 November 2016

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“El Scherzo fue una lección de complicidad orquestal, jugando con matices, tiempos y color”

Reviewed at Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid on 16 November 2016

Ravel, Piano Concerto in G major

Mahler, Symphony no. 5 in C sharp minor

SWR Symphony Orchestra

Christoph Eschenbach, Conductor

Tzimon Barto, Piano

In tempore belli: Britten's War Requiem at the Elbphilharmonie

Alexander Hall, 16th June

As Teodor Currentzis' time in charge of the SWR Symphony Orchestra draws to a close, he bids farewell in a series of nationwide performances of Britten's memorial to the pity of war.

****1

A kaleidoscope of kinetic colour from Currentzis, Avdeeva and the SWR

Alexander Hall, 15th September

Teodor Currentzis, conducting the SWR Symphony Orchestra, and Yulianna Avdeeva do Prokofiev proud in his Third Piano Concerto and Fifth Symphony: all the colours of the rainbow delivered with sophistication, élan and boundless effervescence.

*****

Alina Ibragimova and Nils Mönkemeyer in love with Mozart

Laurence Vittes, 8th May

The soloists turn out to be the perfect couple, while the camerawork covers the action like it was a soccer match.

*****

Spookiness in Stuttgart with Eschenbach and Kopatchinskaja

Alexander Hall, 26th February

The darker sides of Romantic inventiveness are explored in Schumann’s neglected violin concerto and the clandestine woodland rustle of Dvořák’s G major symphony.

****1

Teodor Currentzis and the SWR Symphony triumph in Mahler 9

Alexander Hall, 17th December

Say what you like, Teodor Currentzis understands the music of Mahler, especially in that composer's final symphonic statement, to the manner born.

*****

A study in suffering: Currentzis at the Elbphilharmonie

Alexander Hall, 19th December

Teodor Currentzis, on tour with the SWR Symphony Orchestra, pairs two Russian masterpieces written a century apart: Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and Schnittke's Viola Concerto with Antoine Tamestit.

****1

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Ramón del Buey Cañas

Ramón del Buey Cañas (Madrid, 1993) es Personal Docente e Investigador en Formación del Departamento de Filosofía de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; miembro del equipo directivo de la Asociación de Música Electroacústica y Arte Sonoro de España y programador de Filmadrid Festival Internacional de Cine.

Ravel, Mahler y Eschenbach: palingenesia del demiurgo en el Auditorio Nacional