CONCIERTO EXTRAORDINARIO

Sinfónica de Tenerife furthers its educational undertakings with the launching of a new collaboration initiative with the Zubin Mehta Chair of Orchestral Conducting, backed by Aline Foriel-Destezet of the prestigious Reina Sofía Higher School of Music. Under the guidance of Jordi Francés and Nicolás Pasquet, three young intern conductors will direct a repertoire for chamber orchestra, interpreting in a single evening some of the small musical masterpieces of the 20th century.

The programme draws a particularly suggestive arc. Stravinsky’s Septet condenses the composer’s late neoclassical period in a work consisting of sharp melodic lines and an incisive pulse in which each instrument seems to speak with its own voice. In Palimpseste, Marc-André Dalbavie works with the idea of superimposed layers: the music is written ‘over’ what has already been heard, it is transformed, it reappears and is rearranged as if we were seeing the same landscape under different lighting. With Drei Stücke für Kammerorchester, Schönberg takes the orchestral miniature to a maximum degree of concentration, exploring timbres and gestures that herald a new musical language. The musical crux of the evening will be Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen by Gustav Mahler, a cycle of four songs in which the voice sings and the orchestra breathes with it, expressing nostalgia, irony and luminous melancholy. This will be followed by Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and, finally, Britten’s Sinfonietta, Op. 1, a work brimming with energetic youthfulness and precision that looks at tradition with intelligence and recasts it in the composer’s unmistakable style.

Don’t miss the culmination of a week’s work with conductors of the future in a free concert held at the Auditorio de Tenerife, which has collaborated in this project.