Paavo Järvi with Orchestre de Paris, Chostakovich and Beethoven 9
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Henning Høholt
20/6/15
Henning Høholt
20/6/15
PARIS/FRANCE:
With Chostakovich Violin concerto no 2, with Philippe Aïche as soloist, it
became and agressive concert, full of sadness, and also beauty in the middle of
the sadness and agressivity. This sadness and dark mood was contrasted by
Beethovens 9th Symphony, which ends with the “Ode to Joy”, a poem by Friedrich
Schiller.
All the
first parts sadness and darkness, was a great contrast to the happening in the
last part of Beethovens 9th Sympnhony which was programmed after the break,
The
second violin concerto was originally created in 1967 in Moscow by David
Oistrakh, it was a 60 years birthday present to Oistrakh from Scostakovich.
Philippe Aïche managed brilliantly to perform the
magic of the Russian art of violin in this extraordinary Sovjetique musicale
excellence. In the second part he took good care of the melancholy
Ludwig
van Beethoven 9. Symphony:
Among
critics, Beethovens 9th Symphony, is almost universally considered Beethoven’s
greatest work, and many consider it one of the greatest compositions in the
western musical canon.
However
for me, personally, I feel that many of Beethovens Symphonies gives me more
interesting parts, as i feel that, a lot of this 75 min. long symphony is
“only”, but also “elegantly” building up the choir and singing soloists in the
last movement, with always modulating on themes that we, when we know the
symphony is directing in to the final part.
The
symphony was the first example of a major composer using voices in a symphony,
thus making it a choral symphony. The words are sung during the final movement
by four vocal soloists and a chorus. They were taken from the “Ode to Joy”, a
poem written by Friedrich Schiller in 1785 and revised in 1803.
Beethovens
9th. Symphony is a large work, and in this cooperation for the first time (as
far as i know) between Orchestre de Paris and Paavo Järvi, it is allways
exiting how it will function, and happily they were going to repeat it at the
concert 18th of June. The first part
was powerful, sometimes a bit too powerful for me, but in the second part with
the dialogue between horn and wood and the direct dialogue between solo flute
and solo horn is very interesting and was beautifully and with great musicality
played by the two excellent soloists.
The
final is the hit with its fanfare sounds in the deep strings and beautifully
with one of the coming leading themes in the bases continuing up in the lighter
strings andthrough all the groups is a masterpiece by Beethoven, taken well
care of by the Orchestra.
With
good soloists like Matthias Goerne (bassbaryton), who was beautifully and very
well sounding opening it all in the singing part, and Michael Schade (tenor), together with Luba
Orconásová (sopran) and Petra Lang (mezzo), and a very well singing Choire de Orchestre de Paris, with
app 110 persons, led by Lionel Sow, the last vocal part of this famous Beethoven Symphony was in the very best hands. The sound of the choire was some
times extraordinary well formed.
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