Kirill Petrenko conducts the Orchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia and the pianist Boris Giltburg, in three concerts by three great composers who have made the history of music. On program Calm by the sea and a fortunate travel (Meeresstille und gluckliche Fahrt) by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, the Piano Concert n.2 by Johannes Brahms and The sea (La Mer) by Claude Debussy.
Mendelssohn’s concert overture was composed in 1828 when the composer was only eighteen. Inspired by two of Goethe's poems, which describe a fortunate sea crossing in a calm sea and then shaken by the wind, the overture evokes the lyrical feeling of nature. The Brahms Piano Concert No. 2, composed in 1881 and divided into four tempos instead of the traditional three, is considered one of the masterpieces of the late-romantic composer, as well as one of the most difficult to perform in the whole concert repertoire: in composition , soloist and orchestra are intimately linked in a constant and strongly expressive dialogue. La Mer, trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre by Debussy, one has the sensation of a continuous flow of music, indistinct, constant, which breaks the schemes of traditional classical compositions. On the part of the composer there is not so much the desire to describe nature, as to seek its mystery by painting, as in a picture, its mutability and uncertainty through timbral chiaroscuro and evoking in the listener images and memories of a dreamlike beauty.
Three masterpieces which, thanks to the mastery of Kirill Petrenko, director of the Berliner Philharmoniker, and the talent of the pianist, are returned to us in all their intensity.
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