{"id":69256,"date":"2014-02-18T18:36:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T17:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gbopera.it\/?p=69256"},"modified":"2016-11-26T12:33:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T11:33:49","slug":"tifu-captivates-with-brahms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioroldo.it\/gbopera\/tifu-captivates-with-brahms\/","title":{"rendered":"Verona, Teatro Filarmonico: Anna Tifu Captivates with Brahms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Verona. Teatro Filarmonico. Arena di Verona Symphonic Series 2013\/2014<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Arena di Verona Orchestra<br \/>\n<\/strong>Conductor <strong>Franz Schotty<br \/>\n<\/strong>Soloist <strong>Anna Tifu<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Johannes Brahms: <\/em> Violin Concerto op. 77 in D major<br \/>\n<em>Dmitri Shostakovich:<\/em>Symphony n.1 op.10 in F minor<br \/>\n<b><\/b><i>Verona. 15<sup>th<\/sup> February, 2014.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Following her two appearances in the last two seasons in Verona, performing the Beethoven Violin Concerto and the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante, Anna Tifu returns<\/strong> with a cornerstone of the violin repertoire, the Brahms Violin Concerto. She enchanted the audience with a polished and intense performance. Her admirable technical precision and elegance was matched by her\u00a0 musical maturity,\u00a0 expressiveness and shimmering sound. Every note resulted etched and emotionally experienced, drawing the listener into the splendour of her web. The care and thought given to the shaping of each phrase, to the significance of each note was evident to the listener for the manner in which it was offered.\u00a0 She seduced with the beauty of every single note, vibrant and sweet, powerful and resonant, in what was clearly a\u00a0 constant research for beauty.\u00a0 The low notes were deep and resonant, the highest, of an ineffable sweetness. She demonstrated an impressive grasp of the concerto&#8217;s expansive contours, in turn, amalgamating beautifully into the rich orchestration, or soaring above it. She wove between the determination and authoritativeness\u00a0 in the many passages of grandeur, and\u00a0 the searing\u00a0 intensity and sweetness of her pianissimi high notes in the introspective ones. Her intense pianissimi penetrated even the most obtrusive dynamics of the wind section.\u00a0 A beautifully balanced performance, again between the peaceful pastoral disposition of the second movement and the rustic energy of the tzigane inspired last movement. She delighted the enthusiastic audience with the sarabande from Bach&#8217;s Partita n. 2 as an encore. However, not everything ran smoothly in the performance. At times the orchestra seemed uncertain.\u00a0\u00a0 It took a few bars at the beginning of the third movement to understand what direction the orchestra was taking, and the balance of timbre and dynamics was not of the most refined.\u00a0 The orchestra, under the baton of Franz Schottky, at each new entry in third movement, missed the opportunity to recapture the original tempo. The result was a gradual slackening of momentum which resulted in a heavy lagging spirit. <strong>The Shostakovich Symphony was also lacking in the spirit that is so characteristic of his music<\/strong>. Although a very early work, written for his last year at the Conservatorium, it already holds many, of what were to become, his linguistic trademarks; a considerable dose of sarcasm and grottesqueness, transparent orchestration, the elaboration of \u00a0clearly defined details,\u00a0 the ability to exploit, with ingenuity, every possible use of timbre, and a masterful use of counterpoint and cross-rhythms.\u00a0 In the performance, very little of this transpired, and the symphony remained rather flat and did not go beyond a routine reading, with some untidy moments. A mention, however for the principal cellist, whose many significant solos were assertive and expressive.<em> Photo Ennevi<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verona. Teatro Filarmonico. 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