Lied contemporáneo y postmoderno en el Thyssen con Barron y Lahiry

By Leonardo Mattana Ereño, 15 December 2025

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Reviewed at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid on 12 December 2025

Cage, The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs

Berio, Folk Songs

Messiaen, La Ville d'en haut for piano and orchestra

Messiaen, Harawi - chant d'amour et de mort: Montagnes

Valcárcel, Tungu Tungu

Messiaen, Harawi, chant d'amour et de mort: Doundou Tchil

Crumb, Spanish Songbook II: Lazy River

Crumb, Spanish Songbook II: Dance of the Moon in Santiago

Berberian, Stripsody

Bolcom, Cabaret Songs: Toothbrush Time

Bolcom, Cabaret songs: Waitin

Bolcom, Cabaret Songs: Amor

Fleur Barron, Mezzo-soprano

Kunal Lahiry, Piano

Carlo Rizzi brings Respighi’s Rome to Birmingham

Robert Gainer, 15th April

Carlos Rizzi believes that Puccini’s orchestrations are good enough to stand alone, without their vocal lines, but can the drama compete with the romance of Respighi?

****1

A vocally perplexing economics assignment from David Lang

No’a L. bat Miri, 19th March

The New York Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel deliver the world premiere of Lang's The wealth of nations, inspired by Adam Smith's famous treatise.

***11

Searing Kindertotenlieder from Fleur Barron and Czech Philharmonic

Gianmarco Segato, 18th February

Fleur Barron delivers a searing Kindertotenlieder in the Czech Philharmonic's mini-survey of the Germanic Romantic repertoire under Semyon Bychkov.

****1

Peter Sellars directs Italian debut of Kaija Saariaho’s Adriana Mater

Pia Maltri, 11th October

This co-production, previously seen in San Francisco, is more of a semi-staging, convinces thanks to committed performances from a cast led by Fleur Barron.

****1

Brett Dean's Epitaphs: scintillating sorrow at Chamberfest Cleveland

Frank Kuznik, 27th June

Lively performances offer fresh perspectives on elegies old and new in the penultimate ChamberFest Cleveland concert.

****1

The metamorphosis of M. Butterfly: UK premiere for Huang Ruo’s opera

Mark Pullinger, 25th October

From the chrysalis of a Broadway play and then to film, David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly turns full cycle into an opera by composer Huang Ruo.

****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.

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