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Vasily Petrenko conducts the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya (OBC)
February 21st, 2023 |
Maestro Petrenko continues his tour of Spain after the enormous success obtained last week with the OCNE, this time to conduct the OBC.
He returns to the Auditori almost two years after the excellent reception of the concert that closed the OBC's 20-21 season, in which pieces by Webern, Mendelssohn and Schoenberg could be heard.
On this occasion, the programme is entirely dedicated to the German composer Richard Strauss, with Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra) as the main piece of the programme, together with Divertimento, op. 86 and Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs), the latter with the presence of soprano Heidi Melton.
The Bavarian composer's Vier letzte Lieder can be considered one of the masterpieces in the history of German lied. A musical testament to an epoch and a pinnacle of its genre, they were written for soprano and describe a springtime journey to death.
Richard Strauss was the great master of the so-called symphonic poem, as is demonstrated in the resounding Also Sprach Zarathustra, while all the timbral refinement, humour and craft of his compositions are concentrated in his Divertimento, a look at 18th century France, conceived as a suite of dances.
The concerts will take place on 25 and 26 February at the Auditori de Barcelona.
He returns to the Auditori almost two years after the excellent reception of the concert that closed the OBC's 20-21 season, in which pieces by Webern, Mendelssohn and Schoenberg could be heard.
On this occasion, the programme is entirely dedicated to the German composer Richard Strauss, with Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra) as the main piece of the programme, together with Divertimento, op. 86 and Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs), the latter with the presence of soprano Heidi Melton.
The Bavarian composer's Vier letzte Lieder can be considered one of the masterpieces in the history of German lied. A musical testament to an epoch and a pinnacle of its genre, they were written for soprano and describe a springtime journey to death.
Richard Strauss was the great master of the so-called symphonic poem, as is demonstrated in the resounding Also Sprach Zarathustra, while all the timbral refinement, humour and craft of his compositions are concentrated in his Divertimento, a look at 18th century France, conceived as a suite of dances.
The concerts will take place on 25 and 26 February at the Auditori de Barcelona.
