Three great directors compared this week. Fifteen years separates them from each other. Let’s start with the dean, Blomstedt (1927), who devotes himself to Bruckner’s classical severity. With Muti we listen to three different programs, where we remember two Symphonies by Schubert, an author especially dear to the conductor. With Simon Rattle, instead, we leave nineteenth-century Europe and explore France – USA relations, with our feet firmly in the twentieth century and we meet authors such as Barber, Harrison, Varèse, still not very popular in Italy.
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Bergamo, Naples, Palermo
On 21 to 11 streaming from the Donizetti Theater in Bergamo, with Riccardo Muti and the Cherubini Orchestra he founded. Music by Donizetti and Beethoven on the program. Recorded on March 10th and available until May 20th. We listen to the great conductor also on the 26th from 9pm, delayed streaming from the Mercadante Theater in Naples, again with the Cherubini Orchestra, but with a different program, Schubert’s “Grande” Symphony . And then on the 28th from 11 also from the Teatro Massimo in Palermo with a third program, still different from the previous ones, the Third Symphony by Schubert and the Symphony “From the New World” by Dvořák. Registered in the past few days, both videos are available for 30 days.
London
On the 21st at 7.30 pm we listen to live streaming from the London Symphony Orchestra with its conductor Simon Rattle (former director of the Berlin Philharmonic) and the voice of Barbara Hannigan: A Twentieth Century Journey from Ravel’s France to the United States by Lou Harrison, Samuel Barber ; while Varèse, French by birth but naturalized in the United States, acts as a bridge. A nice program, with rather infrequent pieces (especially in Italy), which proceeds backwards, from “Knoxville: Summer of 1915”, written in 1947 by Barber, to “Song of Quetzalcoatl”, by Harrison (1941), to “Offandes ”By Varèse (1921), to“ Ma mère l’Oye ”by Ravel (1911).
Roma
On the 27th at 6.00 pm live streaming from the Parco della Musica with the S. Cecilia Orchestra conducted by Herbert Blomstedt in the Symphony n. 5 by Bruckner. Of Swedish origin but born in the United States, a pupil of Igor Markevitch among others, over the years he has led orchestras such as the Staatskapelle in Dresden, the San Francisco Symphony and the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, establishing himself as an authoritative witness of the great European tradition. Then available on the site.