Showing posts with label classcial music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classcial music. Show all posts
Saturday, May 18, 2024

ADDA Simfonica with Irene Theorin under Josep Vicent in Strauss and Shostakovich

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  Concerts seasons often parade a procession of “great works” calculated to promote ticket sales. Anything less well known is often regarded...
Sunday, May 5, 2024

A dream of a concert: Tomas Brauner and Senja Rummukainen join ADDA Simfonica in Smetana, Prokofiev and Martinu

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“Such stuff as dreams are made on, we are all spirits and are melted into air” are words that ought to remind us of the ephemeral, temporal ...
Friday, March 1, 2024

The Desconstruction of Mahler: ADDA under Josep Vicent with Patrick Messina in Adams, Brahms and Berio

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This was a very special concert. It will live in the memory for as long as breath continues. It was nothing less than a triumph of artistic ...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Something special - Pablo González, Francesco Piemontesi and the Dresden Philharmonic in Beethoven and Strauss

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Something special was experienced by the ADDA audience last night. On the face of it, the concert was almost conventional, as concerts somet...
Monday, December 18, 2023

Gustavo Gimeno and the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana in Sibelius and Mahler

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Gustavo Gimeno conducted the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana in the latest concert of ADDA’s Pasions season. The program juxtaposed two...
Thursday, December 14, 2023

Josep Vicent conducts Beethoven and Montsalvatge in Alicante

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  Beethoven ’ s Ninth Symphony is one of those works I can hear anytime I want. I play it to myself in my head - at least, I think I do. It ...
Saturday, November 25, 2023

Pimchas Zukerman plays Elgar with Orchestra National de Lyon under Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider in ADDA Alicante

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When writing reviews, the pressure to express opinion often leads to overstatement. It is a position. I usually try to avoid, and I do so by...
Monday, November 20, 2023

Jesús Reina, Pierre Bleuse and ADDA Alicante in Ravel, Strauss and Mozart

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For the third time this season, Alicante ’ s ADDA audience heard a major piece by Richard Strauss. The Violin Concerto is an early work, wri...
Saturday, October 14, 2023

Memorable? You bet! Joe Alessi plays Chick Corea’s trombone Concerto at ADDA, Alicante

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The word memorable is much overused. It now tends to signify something that is rather bland, an experience unworthy of being labelled “world...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Stefanie Irany, Josep Vicent and ADDA orchestra in Strauss, Berlioz and Tchaikovsky

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Programa Richard Strauss, Muerte y Transfiguración Op.24 23:00 Hector Berlioz, La muerte de Cleopatra 22:00   I.  C’en est donc fait! 03...
Tuesday, April 4, 2023

We got rhythm – Josep Vicent and the ADDA orchestra in Ravel, Adams and Reveueltas

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Concert programs nowadays are often themed. Sometimes the idea is obvious, sometimes trite, but even attempting to present such a program is...
Thursday, March 16, 2023

The familiar seen and heard anew – Ivan Fischer, Francesco Piemontesi and the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Schumann, Dohnanyi and Strauss

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  Some time ago, Hillary Hahn played the Sibelius Violin Concerto in Alicante’s ADDA hall in a way that I described as utterly new. Though I...
Friday, March 10, 2023

A triumph of programming - ADDA Symfonica with Ivan Martin under Yaron Traub play unfamiliar Scriabin and Tchaikovsky

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Much thought nowadays is devoted to the construction of concert programmes. A mass audience, almost by definition, is dictatorial. The old f...
Sunday, February 26, 2023

Surprise, surprise - ADDA with Christian Lindberg and Roland Pontinen

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Concert programmes can often appear rather conventional at first sight. A well-known Romantic symphony in the second half, preceded by an eq...
Friday, February 3, 2023

Scriabin’s Divine Poem and Manuel de Falla played by Judith Jauregui is a revelation

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Josep Vicent, artistic director, and conductor at ADDA, Alicante, decided to entitle the whole season of concerts ‘Divine Poem’. One must co...