JANINE JANSEN, ESA-PEKKA SALONEN PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA LONDON Fri, 6. September 2013 Grafenegg | Wolkenturm PERFORMERS Philharmonia Orchestra London, orchestra Janine Jansen, violin Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor Why these three composers in a concert : - Brett Dean with "Last Will" Music for Orchestra (2002/2008) - Sergei Prokofiev Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.2 - Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 3 Well, the latter two have devoted a ruler. Prokofiev, after he had returned from exile in New York and Paris to Moscow, Stalin. Beethoven devoted his symphony to Napoleon. Only later he has withdrawn his favor Napoleon and made it into the "Eroica" . What now with Brett Dean? In Australia we do not have a dictator, he could worship . His reference is to the narrowness of Beethoven. His piece also draws on Beethoven. He quotes him, but does not lead to the end of the quote. • Brett Dean A former musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic. An Australian who lived in Berlin 15 years. As a musician - he proved in an interview before the concert - he quickly learns languages and his German is excellent. As a composer he wrote a piece for six violas. Now he has fashioned for the festival in Grafenegg on an orchestral version of this piece. • Sergei Prokofiev Although he is reputed to have written this piece for Stalin, he has never been interested in politics. He was naive in that sense. In this symphony, the violin is against the topic. In this concert, the violinist Janine Jansen. Then the orchestra breaks out the violin from the sensuality. There is a clearly structured Violin Concerto. In the second set, however, it is - for the time - new: two bars meet. The orchestra on a straight stroke plane and the violin at three-quarter time. I was interested in how the composer manages this. As a technician, but I realized that he always focused on the point where the bars come together again soon. Following the motto " 3x4 = 12" . Both series come to a common clock. A challenge for conductor and musician. The audience was enraptured. The soloist was with a Bach encore, but had to wait for an over -flying aircraft with the beginning. • Ludwig van Beethoven The Eroica was a nice way to finish this warm late- summer evening. Three beautiful pieces formed into a concert evening with the "Philharmonia Orchestra" under the conductor of Esa -Pekka Salonen . Where it took place: The open air stage With the Wolkenturm, Grafenegg’s centuries-old architectural landscape gained an open-air stage (in 2007) that blended perfectly into its natural surroundings. Nestling in a natural hollow, the building designed by architects Marie-Therese Harnoncourt and Ernst J. Fuchs (the next ENTERprise – architects) is a sculpture that rises up a good 15 metres to the height of the treetops and affords unexpected views from a range of standpoints. From the terraces, with seating for over 1,700 spectators, as well as from the surrounding hills that provide lawn seating for over 300 people, one’s eye is caught by the historical castle and the romantic ambience of Grafenegg. The open-air arena’s acoustic shell produces an excellent sound through the acoustic detailing of the Munich firm Müller-BBM.
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