It has become too long since we have seen ESA-Pecca Callonon on the podium.
Conductor-composer, a young 66, was to grant bail on his annual Chicago symphony booking in the previous season to receive the polar music award, one of the highest cultural honors of Scandinavia. Depending on the pointed cheers during its 30 January and February 6 – Celanon regularly lives for at least two concert cycles – he was very much remembered. A particularly among music directors craves the out-of-the-box programming of Sellonon in these long CSO season, which, thus, has felt creatively rigid.
For the intellect, Callonon brought two nights to the cornestone to be inconsistently played by Bella Bartok: The Concerto for Orchestra and one-Ac-Act Opera “Bluebords Castle”. He also programmed a piece of his own, “Organ and Sinphone Concertyant for Orchestra” of 2022; Latvian organizer Ethee Upalana, one of one dedication, single. 220 s. In a reversal of normal fate in Michigan, two slam-dunk recipes were invited for riding-compared to people working in “Don Juan” of-Kichhard Strauss and Symphony No. 2-Tulna of Beethoven.
Cynephone concertors of Sellonon, programmed for the concert cycle on January 30, replacing the organ’s Austraya Timbress Futuristic like a foreign anthem. In written comments, Celanon says that he intends to meet his “Sinphone Concerton” title – in other words, the limb is equally on the feet with orchestra, not even on the feet, up and not.
This is very clear. The best moments of cinfanphone inherited the handoff-upkalna between the organ and the orchestra initially inherited a line from Piccolo, or locked on the pedal, with low brass on the pedal At the very end, the organ hangs with a cool de-flat-mensish cord with the orchestra’s final B-Flat cord, a sonority fell from another world.
However, Calonon’s orchestra writing is not their best – it is often blocked and frightening. On Thursday, it was not played with either strings with too much phrase or Jhuz.
The best part of his “Sinphone concertent for organ and orchestra” is, in fact, organ. Celanon clearly never composed for the instrument before the Commission, and his over -writing brings us with him to sandbox.
With any luck, we will hear more than APKALNA. She ended with a Peeling, Cascading Tokata, which was composed by “Ellen Got in Der Hoh Sei Ahar”, composed by fellow countrymen Aivars Kalajs. Curtain-Closar allows Apochalana to settle in its lyrical side rather than the steep incompatibility of Cadangus of Cinfonia, rolled her wrist elegant and flows between the manual.
Listening to Sellonon is always a pleasure, but Bartok was an hour -old man for both concerts. On January 30, a luxurious concerto for the orchestra took all the DNAs of CSO’s long relationship with a piece – 1955 raner recording helped it to enter the list of performances – and embraced a dramatic pessing that embraced it that Removed the Strauss.
No one can admire this performance without shouting to specific members of the orchestra – it is the same in the title “Concerto”. Stephen Ragnar Hoskaldson’s flute Solos was always emotionally depicted, as Obist in the first movement was single like William Welter’s Obde. Even in recent months, some fitful performances were seen by the sections of Sterling, Trombones, Michael Mulkahi and Horn Solis, well mixed and led the voice of Clarian.
On 6 February, Sellonon’s “Bluebird” still managed to increase the bar more often. The delicious light design by Keith Param dropped us properly in the heart of Bartok’s harassment story: Judith married Duke Bluebird, only to locate his palace – and that, in detail – is cursed. Against the arguments of the blue, he finds gradual frightening and glory behind the seven doors. At the climax of the opera, the last door opens to reveal the back wives of the blue. “Jane Aire” looks like a tablet than Sri Rochester compared.
In a concert version almost does not work so well: instead of curbing a pit, behind singers directly in Bartok’s coarse orchestation. The remaining amount was placed on the very edge of ease. It did not help that there was a very different projection to start with the singers “Bluered”.
The Christian van Horn was easily heard on the deen. He was a natural blued, his powerful, sepulcharal bass-baritone softened by a seductive heat. One easily understood why Judith fell in love with such a sick shape. As his opposite, Mezo-Soprano Ekaterina Gubanova had a narrow, miller vocal palette, but the growing horror of Judith with Jakud was clearly developed, pasted through the grain dishes groups. Breezi Leh – In the recent “blued” of Sellonon in San Francisco symphony, the poetic, introductory text with the correct amount of navitas, intononed, the hall saved for a single spotlight, which was illuminating him on stage.
“Bluebords” Librato is cramm with specific colors: blood-red, blue-green, ghost white. Parama illuminated the roof level behind the stage with colored lights, sometimes raised hues directly from the text. The second time, he agreed to make his own based on the experience of the scene. (He said, the audience is facing the rows of closed doors at the roof and stage levels, realizing that at least some of them to include some of them in the staging, although on-the-the—the- Can be nose.)
In Librato, the opening of the fifth door is the “bright light” in the dark palace of the blubered, as well as the limb and auxiliary brass in the gallery. At that luxurious, triple-fort moment, as Celanon turned the orchestra hall with light to operate the brass above, illuminated the face of a surprising, amazing audience.
There are moments that are made of music – the audience as part as part, not only as a witness, the spectacle. Salonon understands that. Do very little.
It is also worth noting:
Participate this week or final CSO concert, and you will see the first trumpet: Cincinnati Symphony Principal Anthony Limonseli And Pittsburgh Symphony Assistant Principal Conrad Jonesin that order. CSO major trumpet Estaban Balakan Philadelphia stays on holiday to play in the orchestra, whether he will return to his seat or not.
On Friday, CSO also announced that concertmaster Robert Chen The rotator will withdraw from the concert on 20-22 February to recover from cuff tendenitis. Solo violin player Stella chain -A California-born Queen Elizabeth takes over the winner-level.
When we are talking about prominent players, a note of Obist’s appreciation William welterA CSO member since 2018. His single “Don Juan” was one for the age in January 30: already already already calm, and never had to lose his delicateness and humanity because it was cracked. This pure music was magic, no scene was necessary.
“Callonon organizes Bluebords Castle,” at 7:30 pm at 7:30 pm at 7:30 and 8 at Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Avenue;; Ticket $ 35- $ 250; More information on cso.org