in 1783, writes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to his father, he was working “on the neck and head” of a new Symphony. And the frequently cited message from the workshop of the judicial composer writes the “Linz” Symphony, which in its slow introduction evokes the proximity of Haydn and with drums and trumpets in the Andante shines. A C-major-chromatic sighs behind the festive facade, the amazing shadows in the final. Here is a kind of Cantus firmus memories, while the polyphony triumphs. The orchestra celebrates the conductor of the Evening, the audience in a grateful mood all artists in the jam-Packed chamber music hall.
the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE) with Robin Ticciati at the Desk, the chief of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester (DSO) in Berlin. And the concert is in the context of the series “In memoriam Claudio Abbado”, which is dedicated to the Berliner Philharmoniker in your former big chief conductor for the fifth anniversary of the death. Are invited to a two-chamber orchestra, whose career with Abbado is connected as a promoter of young musical talent. The COE, founded in 1981 by Abbado and precious performances directed by him, besides the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. In 1986, for the first Time in the Philharmonie in Berlin.
focus of the series, with works by Mozart
About 60 members of the core cast from European countries, and it has emerged that the former youth orchestra long ago an Ensemble of renowned musicians beyond all limits of age.
As the focus of the Abbado concert dedicated to series of chosen works of Mozart. That in which instrumental music is alive much of the lyricism of the Opera Fort, is emphasized in the play Ticciatis. The compositional game with Seriously in this Symphony. Perhaps the acoustics of the hall favouring the somewhat massive sound. Ticciatis invitation to weigh-in three-quarter time of the minuet like how the fresh dramatic movement in the Presto. The programs of the DSO under his direction, to show that Ticciatis belongs to a particular inclination of the French music, which is confronted here at the COE with Mozart. Before Debussy and Schoenberg has Gabriel Fauré’s “Pelléas et Mélisande” and made his acting music to Maeterlinck’s Drama finally, a Suite. More than elegance and delicacy namely romantic secrecy weaves in the Sicilienne, where flute and harp delight.
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As a highlight of the concert is a lyrical hits masterpiece on a master of French song: Magdalena Kozená makes the song cycle “Les Nuits d’été” of Hector Berlioz, a conflict action to the spring, the erotic and death – “Ma belle amie est morte” – up to the summoning: “Reviens, reviens, ma bien aimée!“ This large arch, the singer with the eerie beauty of the building, follow the white tomb and the sailing into the unknown. A lot of Pianissimo, melodic increases, luminous magic, romance, fidelity to the Text of Gautier – all of this is happening in an Interpretation, from which one can only rave about.
