Who is loaded on a Feast for Igor Stravinsky, with all sorts of computing: Pagan stunner bounces on a re-discovered Faith, delicate gradients result in cubist constructions, bizarre collages of soul music history, swirling around the Old master, the non-carry urgent masks. But who is the much dear is really? He knows how to entertain the spirit realm, is sharpening his musical contributions skillfully, mixing in a pinch of apparently nutcases involved, which secures his hands in the ring at the end of attention of self-appointed guardians. And then, this pulse, this unmistakable sense of rhythm, his compositions archaic as well as fashionable appear. The native-born Russian, and later French, in the end, Americans, put it this way: “You want to fuck me. But I don’t have it.“
in the face of hardly overview of the diversity of its boldly-designed artist’s personality Stravinsky always appears new in the light of those who celebrate it. At the concert hall Iván Fischer, they set to work and in six days, three different orchestra up. After the opening of the concert house orchestra, whose honorary conductor he is, traveling with two Ensembles at the Gendarmenmarkt, which belong to the international top class and closely related to Fisher’s Work are connected. The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra he has conducted since 1987, as a guest, after the separation of Daniele Gatti, he is traded again and again as a possible new head of the Amsterdam. The Budapest Festival Orchestra founded by Fischer in 1983, is to be the laboratory of how much of an Ensemble are to be understood as a breathing group of individuals and together, risks can. For Fischer, all three of the orchestra to form his musical family. At the Festival, with Stravinsky comes to light, how harmonious it is.
precision drilling
encouragement can make use of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is currently. Still, the musicians compared to the struggle for a posture in the termination of your music heads, because of “inappropriate behavior” of female members. The lawyers negotiated Silence is crumbling, parts of the orchestra to send solidarity messages to Gatti, that is a drain on the nerves. Fischer is the Right to have an atmosphere of trust and appreciation. He doesn’t want to force, but to lead the orchestra, close to his own sound ideal, to himself. Stravinsky appears on the first glance an unusual choice, his music is still one of the artistic shielded heart. The more you ask the question, with what attitude you approach it. Fishing is based on the fine rounded Concertgebouw sound, a precision Drill, a lot of consistent glow from the inside.
the neoclassical pieces of the first half of the concert, the Concerto in D and the Capriccio for piano and orchestra, elegant aufrauschen, without the income transposed collisions on the offensive to execute. Emanuel Ax plays as sand on the wing like devoid of any sentimentality, almost as pumperlg’, as if it were a piano Concerto by the young Mozart. In the case of “Petrushka” after the break, the Concertgebouw Orchestra in exerts its abrasive force to all of the voting tips. Stravinsky’s ballet about the carved puppet character, who wakes up in the middle of the hustle and bustle to a short charge life, you can stage flash, with silent movie-tale magnification of the Gestural. However, fishing chooses a different path, the warm colors, the cultured sound. How fantastically trumpet about Drooling, Bragging and jealousy floats, how conclusive is the final Pizzicato – escape acts in a world beyond the faces. That Humor is not on this evening in the center of Fischer’s Interpretation, crazy accents, and in addition: His circus Polka Stravinsky wrote “for a young elephant”, in reality, the opportunity to work accompanied by a Balanchine-choreography for 50 elephants and dancers. Today, that would be a thing of the impossibility, in the concert hall, it remains a thoroughly likeable Kehraus.
magic pulse
How different from the first measure of the performance of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Stravinsky Festival witnessed a fantastic finish to develop. The orchestra alone, Fischer is below, only with the horns sound the “Four Norwegian impressions” through the ranks to his podium. A little Pinch, and to the ironic point of view on this failed film music, which had a strip about the Nazi occupation of Norway. Hair-raising, what the composer zusammenklaubt, Fischer makes it a enigmatic fun with the Chaplins “the Great dictator” at any time to the picture could stumble.
The following testosterone jammed salon tango is a dance dissolves couple of from the orchestra. It puts aside his instruments, music stands are moved spontaneously, the conductor fascinated followed the step to follow. Brave cut on the Symphony of Psalms, on the brilliant Rias chamber choir in the height and in the range of low-slung orchestral including. Heaven and earth are held together by means of a magnetic rest, a magical pulse.
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There can be no better preparation for “Le sacre du printemps” after the break. The opening woodwinds only make audible, what fills the space, in a diversity that is mind-boggling. Sacre, the former Scandal movement, the anthem of the Berlin Rattle Era, can point to Fischer and his orchestra are actually a striking way to be different, without compromising on crude shock waves. The wealth of the individual sound invention, without the fear of playing in front of a voltage drop, gives an almost incredible Abundance of life. For the encore, the musicians together even closer and sing to their conductors, gathered, and Stravinsky’s tender “Ave Maria”. Iván Fischer’s dream from the orchestra, driving in Budapest wonderful flowers. You could wish to hear about it in the future.