Padova Estate Carrara - Second Appointment with 'OPV
Concert Review of 'Orchestra of Padua and the Veneto Wednesday, 30 June 2010.
sounds: Orchestra of Padua and the Veneto.
rating: Emanuele Segre, guitar - Scarpis Maffeo, director .
They are renewed for this year's summer concerts, the Orchestra of Padua and the Veneto in the picturesque setting of the courtyard of Palazzo Zuckermann, in Padova, in Padova Estate Carrara, going so confirm the success of last year.
season as a small, both for the 'heterogeneity of the repertoire and the quality of guest performers, the Exhibition was inaugurated Monday, June 21 with a concert of Henry Bronzes, a cellist of international level and already host the 2009/2010 season, in the role of performer and director.
The second date of the IPO manifesto sees guest guitarist Emanuele Segre, who is also recognized internationally renowned concert pianist, and Maestro Scarpis Maffeo, director of great experience.
As if to resume the interrupted speech at the last Venice Biennale of Music, the repertory program pays tribute to contemporary composers related minimalist aesthetics. In fact, to open the evening and enforcement Festina Lente de for orchestra 's string of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, where the sparse harmonic structure and the drastic reduction of the material composition that characterizes the orchestra do not impede to keep the firm 'attention of the audience, guided by a firm rod, precise and very orderly.
a completely different character is the 'running Shaker Loops by John Adams-one of the founders of the American minimalist movement, in its orchestral version, the original for string septet. 'S entire composition divided into four sections, melodic rhythmic cells develop, creating a ripple effect "rippling and shining." It is quite eloquent words "loops" that both approaches to the idea of \u200b\u200bcontinuous iteration of the same sound material, also inspired from the age of tape music (and maybe with a slight peek at It's Gonna Rain colleague Steve Reich ).
threatened by a massive onslaught of so much unexpected as flying ants, in the second half of the program opens and ends with the execution of The Black Owl for guitar and orchestra by the composer-cellist Giovanni Sollima, already written three years ago but this event has seen in his second ever performance (the first took place last June 6 at the Greek Theatre Politeama Lecce, starring Maestro Segre). The first section is characterized by a long cadenza of the guitar, where the thin line is enriched by a dense melodic arpeggios in the solo part and a light orchestral accompaniment, this introduces a restless, impetuous (and technically very difficult) topic a bit 'Arab Hispanic and vaguely (but definitely kich). The third and final section develops into a lyrical Adagio and vibrato write very idiomatic, which allows (thanks to an undeniable taste of solo musical sense and a careful the orchestra) to "stand down" a composition rather barren of ideas crucial.
E 'was absolutely up to the expectations and fully confirmed by the public (now in fairly good numbers) the duty of Maestro encore Segre, who closed the evening by giving a superb performance of Prelude No. 1 for solo guitar of Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.
I appreciate the great work of the orchestra and praising the city of Padua have renovated this beautiful initiative 's attention is directed now to the next concert (Mozart taste much), stick to the left of Charles Goldstein and keyboard Andrea Bacchetti, Palazzo Zuckermann always scheduled for Wednesday, July 14.