{"id":65765,"date":"2013-10-06T03:56:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T01:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gbopera.it\/?p=65765"},"modified":"2016-11-26T17:45:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T16:45:53","slug":"the-mahler-chamber-orchestra-in-verona-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioroldo.it\/gbopera\/the-mahler-chamber-orchestra-in-verona-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Teatro Filarmonico: The Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Verona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Verona. Teatro Filarmonico. Il Settembre dell&#8217;Accademia XXII Concert Series 2013.\u00a0 <\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Mahler Chamber Orchestra <\/strong><br \/>\nConductor\u00a0 <strong>Daniele Gatti <\/strong><br \/>\nBaritone\u00a0<strong> Matthias Goerne\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Richard Wagner<\/em>: Siegfried Idyll<br \/>\n<em>Gustav Mahler:\u00a0 <\/em>R\u00fcckert Lieder<br \/>\n<em>Ludwig van Beethoven: <\/em>Symphony n.3 op.55 \u201cEroica\u201d<br \/>\n<em>Verona. 2<sup>nd<\/sup> October, 2013. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The prestigious Mahler Chamber Orchestra conducted by Daniele Gatti p<\/strong>layed to a packed hall in the second last concert of the Accademia Filarmonica&#8217;s\u00a0 Concert Season in Verona last night. The orchestra, presented a programme of works from a repertoire with which they have a particular affinity, as their name itself implies. This orchestra, formed on classical proportions, retains a core string section, to which it adds the necessary\u00a0 wind instruments,\u00a0 according to the scoring, as it did in the second work of the evening, Mahler&#8217;s <em>R\u00fcckert Lieder<\/em>, sung by the renowned German baritone Matthias Goerne.<br \/>\n<strong>From the opening bars of the first work on the programme, the <em>Siegfried Idyll,<\/em> a homage to Wagner<\/strong> in the year of his bicentenary celebrations, the quality of the string playing was immediately apparent.\u00a0 The suffused stillness\u00a0 at the beginning, emerging imperceptibly with an intense warmth of sound, the taut and smooth pianissimo legato line, the separate sections compact and homogeneous while maintaining vibrant individual performances, created a rarefied atmosphere that was to be maintained for the first half of the programme. The orchestra responded with transport at the slightest hint from the conductor who accorded great relief to accents and sudden dynamic contrasts creating beautiful shades of colours, surges of sound and incisive effects. The performance was characterized by a sensitive musical rapport both between\u00a0 individual players, and the different sections. Phrasing was shaped with care and beauty.\u00a0 Gatti maintained a strong, overall\u00a0 architectural line reflected in his clear and expansive style, without losing sight of\u00a0 the underlying details.\u00a0 Individually the winds played expressively and with technical expertise, although often the entries of their ensemble\u00a0 resulted untidy, and at times the balance was not calibrated.<br \/>\n<strong>The intimate and reflective R\u00fcckert Lieder were rendered with interpretative and vocal elegance by the firm and generous voice of Matthias Groene.\u00a0<\/strong> The range of\u00a0 contrasting spirit,\u00a0 from the light-hearted, <em>Ich atmet &#8216;einen linden Duft <\/em>to the\u00a0 eerie <em>Um Mittenacht <\/em>\u00a0were delicately woven into the rich and varied individual\u00a0 orchestrations and masterfully interpreted by Matthias Goerne.\u00a0 He changed mood and colour with agile ability, spinning out light, ethereal, introverted sustained passages from I<em>ch bin der Welt abhanden gekommen<\/em>, and sweeping into its broader deeper phrases with ease and power.\u00a0 His rich cavenous vocal quality expressed in turn grimness and triumph in<em> Um Mitternacht<\/em> accompanied by solo woodwind, tympani, harp, piano and celeste in a most suggestive scoring. <em>\u00a0In Liebst du um Sch\u00f6nhei<\/em>t, orchestra and singer breathed together in beautifully moulded phrasing.\u00a0 Goerne\u00a0 moved with ease throughout the wide range, and in all registers. Noteworthy throughout, the individual orchestral soloists from the winds and the concert mistress.<br \/>\n<strong>There was a distinct change of spirit, from rarefied to energetic, in the second half of the programme dedicated to Beethoven&#8217;s third symphony.<\/strong> The youthful orchestra under Gatti&#8217;s firm and decisive guidance, highlighted each musical element in the dense score with clarity and attention to detail.\u00a0 In the first movement, with its syncopated rhythms and harmonic tensions of its dissonances, in the second with its the fugato, in the quiet brilliance of the third and in the variations of the last movement, they demonstrated a whole-hearted involvement in the great range of emotional expression.\u00a0 While fluid and propulsive, the constantly driving pace of the chosen tempi in the first two\u00a0 movements however, left little time for breathing space, depriving the music of a sense of largesse, the\u00a0 weight and heightened tension of which would have contributed to a greater dramatic impact.\u00a0\u00a0 The performance was a resounding success, but no amount of coaxing could elicit an encore.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verona. 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Il Settembre dell&#8217;Accademia XXII Concert Series 2013.\u00a0 Mahler Chamber Orchestra Conductor\u00a0 Daniele Gatti Baritone\u00a0 Matthias [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":59115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14678,3929,9354,9355,326,4397,173],"class_list":["post-65765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-senza-categoria","tag-concerti","tag-daniele-gatti","tag-foreign-readers","tag-gustav-mahler-ludwig-van-beethoven","tag-mahler-chamber-orchestra","tag-matthias-goerne","tag-richard-wagner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioroldo.it\/gbopera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioroldo.it\/gbopera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioroldo.it\/gbopera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioroldo.it\/gbopera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioroldo.it\/gbopera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioroldo.it\/gbopera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioroldo.it\/gbopera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioroldo.it\/gbopera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioroldo.it\/gbopera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioroldo.it\/gbopera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}