{"id":58681,"date":"2013-09-24T12:46:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T10:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gbopera.it\/?p=58681"},"modified":"2016-11-26T22:02:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T21:02:32","slug":"verona-orchestra-of-the-accademia-nazionale-di-santa-cecilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioroldo.it\/gbopera\/verona-orchestra-of-the-accademia-nazionale-di-santa-cecilia\/","title":{"rendered":"Verona, Teatro Filarmonico, Il Settembre dell’Accademia 2013: Lustrous Santa Cecilia!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Verona, Teatro Filarmonico, \u00a0Il Settembre dell’Accademia XXII Concert Series, 2013.\u00a0 <\/em>Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia <\/strong>
\nConductor <\/em>Antonio Pappano <\/strong>
\nSoloist<\/em>\u00a0 Mario Brunello <\/strong>
\nAnton<\/em>\u00ecn Dvo<\/em>\u0159\u00e1k:<\/em> Cello Concerto op.104
\nLudwig van Beethoven:<\/em> Symphony n\u00b05 op. 67
\nVerona. 22nd<\/sup> September, 2013<\/p>\n

There was an air of great expectation and excitement for the 5th<\/sup> concert of the September concert series<\/strong> which featured the refulgent Santa Cecilia Orchestra conducted by their musical director, Antonio Pappano, with Mario Brunello as soloist<\/strong> in a well consolidated programme.\u00a0 The programme, including the encores, was the repeat performance of the previous evening’s closing concert of the MiTo Festival at the Arcimboldi Theatre in Milan, and the Dvo\u0159\u00e1k,\u00a0 was also a repeat of a performance in last year’s Roman season.\u00a0 The choice of such a well-known and much loved programme gave the orchestra and Pappano the opportunity to measure themselves in a repertoire often at risk of being played by force of habit.
\nThe opening bars of the cello concerto announced that this was not to be so.<\/strong>\u00a0 The orchestra immediately set the tone\u00a0 from the first notes.\u00a0 The orchestral introduction riveted the audience’s attention by the tautness of its dramatic tension and the musical and technical command of all its components which provided the soloist with a perfect context to launch into the concerto.
\nThe\u00a0 quality of the individual orchestral members,<\/strong> the uniformity of style and presence, the compactness and cohesiveness of each section and their energy never wavered throughout the concert. The breadth and sweep of Pappano’s all-embracing and communicative gesture, always found them\u00a0 ready to react to a myriad of\u00a0 dynamic and expressive nuances, radiating grandeur in\u00a0 the orchestral interventions. The orchestra was never relegated to mere accompaniment , but even in the predominant cello solo parts, maintained their presence through intense and clearly articulated pianissimo playing, with every instrumental entry sharply characterized and woven together by Pappano’s magistral guidance.\u00a0 Brunello’s performance particularly highlighted the lyrical and rhapsodic elements of the concerto.\u00a0<\/strong> His moments of musical abandon, brought back into line in the thrust of the virtuoso passages, alternated with the touching and poignant moments of the\u00a0 intimate and reflective passages, in all three movements.\u00a0 His tasteful and discreet use of glissando contributed to a smooth and expressive legato line\u00a0 throughout, further enriched by rarefied pianissimi and a\u00a0 gossamer ending to the Adagio.\u00a0 Eloquent playing by the concertmaster in the duet in the third movement between the second solo voice of the violin and the cello soloist, with its interplay of contrasting high and low voices, without forgetting\u00a0 to mention similar moments of sensitive ensemble playing between flute and cello in the first movement and clarinet and cello in the second.\u00a0 In response to enthusiastic applause, Brunello delighted the audience with two encores for solo cello, the Prelude from the first Bach Suite and a relaxed and relaxing blues.
\nIn the second half of the programme, Pappano plunged into Beethoven’s 5th<\/sup><\/strong> with his usual energy and intensity, propelling it forward with determination. In the\u00a0 first three movements he consistently maintained rather stringent tempi, which, while it preserved the performance from any risk of becoming heavy or laborious, didn’t allow the necessary breathing space to savour the richness of the\u00a0 individual\u00a0 musical elements within the overall shape.\u00a0 The triumphant and exhilarating last movement, rang out in any case in noble\u00a0 splendour under the expansive leadership of Pappano.
\nAfter thunderous and sustained applause, the audience was rewarded with the most exquisite musical moments of the evening.<\/strong> The prelude from La Traviata<\/em> was insuperable, beginning and ending in an imperceptible pianissimo, with crafted, elegant phrasing throughout, sensitive but resounding pizzicato from the lower strings, soaring violin and cello lines in the alternating ‘amami Alfredo’ theme, delicate embroidery of the violins at the end.\u00a0 A benchmark performance.\u00a0 The same can be said of the second encore, the pas de six, from Guillaume Tell<\/em> by Rossini. The levity and grace conferred on the ballet music by\u00a0 the slight lift in the middle of the first four bar theme, the clarity\u00a0 of the articulation in the more rhythmical and technical sections,\u00a0 the perfect balance, the lustrous refinement of the\u00a0 successive solos of individual instruments giving each player a last opportunity to display their instrumental and musical excellence before taking their leave, rendered this a cameo performance. Photo Brenzoni<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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