Who is singing in a factory, the “Cantus Arcticus”? Penguins? The occur only in the southern hemisphere. Other birds live in the marshes and forests of the high North, and the Finn Einojuhani Rautavaara and his 1972 18-minute short film, the now, the radio Symphony orchestra in the concert hall, has listed, wanted to put a sounding monument.
A little after the style of Olivier Messiaen: The sounds of Nature arise not only in the orchestra, but also come from the Band. Two flutes swirl around for a long time and lost in a dream, as a noise primer sound a incessant cooing, Screeching, Chattering, and Singing: cranes, larks, swans, and other Arctic animals. That sounds more like a tropical rain forest to the majestic solitude and Vastness of the North. The comes the plaintive string theme into the game. A swell of dynamics, a stroke of the Gong, and the sound sends back, to the infinity, where he came from.
The staging is too pathetic and monotonous
The Simulation of an overwhelming nature in shades, shapes the beginning and the end of the concert, in between, there’s Mozart’s C major piano Concerto, KV 467. In it the soloist around the collective, makes it completely his own thing – Leif Ove Andsnes, this is a contrast to sharpen shears. A Gentleman plays, quite friendly, a bit empty of blood, in complete Neatness, but without great emotional exchange with the orchestra. Routine as you actually should not be. RSB-principal conductor Vladimir Jurowski will remain on the console to be surprisingly good and makes the orchestra, the role of the sound bed remains small. The only exception: the second sentence. In the touching Cantabile mood of the Andante is based votes on seemingly endlessly spun Triplet motion of the Accompaniment, together all partners for a few minutes, merges Andsnes’ piano part with flute and Oboe to the fragile dream figment.
Although Richard Strauss’ “Alpine Symphony” is aimed quite shamelessly with a huge orchestra, cowbells and wind machine on Overpowering and the Set of terms such as “sunrise,” “On flowery meadows,” and “The sun is darkening gradually” in wide-legged uniqueness, therefore, can the maligned plant, the listener quite. This evening, however, the versa is the Impetus. To intentionally pathetic and full pressure, to monotonous in gesture and dynamics, and an effort and an effort that are audible. The otherwise much-appreciated Vladimir Jurowski will be able to let the eagle, this Time not to rise.
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but in the music metropolis Berlin: on the 1. and 2. March is to experience the “Alpine Symphony” live at Gendarmenmarkt, with the Konzerthaus orchestra under the direction of David Zinman. New game, new luck.