Keine Angst vor neuen Tönen: Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester in Berlin

Ingo Metzmacher dirigiert das Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester

Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester

By Sebastian Urmoneit, 02 September 2024

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“eine inspirierte Aufführung”

Reviewed at Philharmonie: Großer Saal, Berlin on 30 August 2024

Wagner, Parsifal: Prelude, Act 1

Nono, A Carlo Scarpa, architetto, ai suoi infiniti possibili

Wagner, Parsifal: Karfreitagszauber (Good Friday Music)

Bruckner, Symphony no. 3 in D minor, WAB 103

Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester

Ingo Metzmacher, Conductor

In these sacred halls: a long Sunday at the Enescu Festival

Peter Quantrill, 7th September

Bucharest’s temples of culture present rites of closure by Mozart, Kurtág and Bruckner… and a fleeting glimpse of Nirvana.

****1

Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and Martha Argerich in Évian

David Karlin, 2nd July

Argerich shows her full artistry, while Europe's young musicians show impressive coordination and dynamics, if short of emotion in Beethoven 7.

****1

Bluebeard as psychothriller in Castellucci's mismatched double bill

George Jahn, 2nd August

Romeo Castellucci's intense production of Bartók's opera reaps its rewards in the performance under Teodor Currentzis, but Carl Orff's opera-oratorio De temporum fine comoedia feels little more than a drab filler.

***11

Prom 60: Intimations of mortality

Matthew Rye, 30th August

Bach in morbid mood and valedictory Bruckner brought to life by young musicians under the baton of Philippe Jordan

***11

Young Mahlerites show extraordinary insights at Salzburg

Jonathan Sutherland, 24th August

The multinational Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra proves that adolescence is no barrier to maturity in profound symphonic music making.

****1

Prom 56: Immaculate Ravel from Thibaudet

David Karlin, 24th August

German bombast. French joie de vivre. Russian soul-searching. You could hardly ask for more contrast in the principal themes of last night’s Prom, with Philippe Jordan conducting the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, from the military pomp of Wagner’s overture to Rienzi to the fairground whirl of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major.

***11

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Sebastian Urmoneit

Sebastian Urmoneit sudierte Musikwissenschaft und Philosophie in Berlin (u. a. bei Carl Dahlhaus). Ergänzendes Studium an der HdK Berlin (UdK)(u. a. bei Heinrich Poos und Hartmut Fladt), Dissertation zu Wagners „Tristan und Isolde“; Aufsätze über Schubert, Wagner, Wolf, Strauss und Brahms; Herausgabe: Joseph Haydn, Memoria, Band 11 mit Hartmut Fladt. Werkeinführungen für das Berliner Konzerthaus, das Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, die Bamberger Symphoniker, die Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, die Südwestdeutsche Konzertdirektion Erwin Russ GmbH, die Dachauer Schlosskonzerte, die Albert Konzerte GmbH in Freiburg u. a.

Keine Angst vor neuen Tönen: das Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester in Berlin