Oscar Fetrás Actualités
compositeur et chef d'orchestre allemand
Commémorations 2024 (Naissance: Oscar Fetrás)
- piano
- Allemagne
- compositeur ou compositrice, chef ou cheffe d'orchestre
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2024-04-26
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2015-03-26 12:09:54
Osmo Vänskä on Sibelius
« The most important guy on stage is the composer, never the conductor. » ResMusica: Let’s start with a general question: Why Sibelius? Why does he speak to you? Why do you think he continues to speak to audiences today? Osmo Vänskä : For me, personally, I think it was just because I was born in Finland. My parents took my two older brothers and I to concerts. My dad was a fiddler, and he wanted to give us the chance to have music lessons as well. If you have a connection to classical music in Finland, it means that you will hear the music of Sibelius quite often. Regarding the larger picture, for example why Finns love Sibelius, it is because they are listening to this music. There are colors, harmonies, and rhythms which are somehow connected to us; we feel that the music is speaking to us and […]
2015-01-12 15:34:59
Saraste conducts the Helsinki Philharmonic in Dutilleux
Jukka-Pekka Saraste ’s continued advocacy for Henri Dutilleux has ensured that the French master’s orchestral works receive regular performances by both the main Helsinki orchestras. This evening’s concert featured Dutilleux’s Métaboles, one of the composer’s more frequently performed pieces, followed by works from Saint-Saëns and Bartók. This evening’s performance of Métaboles benefited from Saraste’s typical attention to detail and balance. While Saraste’s conducting seemed particularly deliberate, the music never came across as pedantic or fragmented. The woodwind-led opening was appropriately sharp and angular; the supporting harmonies perfumed yet pungent. The prominent strings in the second movement had a beautiful shimmer, and the exciting climax in the third movement featured excellent ensemble brass playing. The fourth movement percussion was precisely rendered rather than shadowy. While a slightly Faster tempo might have made the last movement more exciting, the eruptive final pages were nevertheless brilliantly executed. Although the Concerto for Cello No. […]
2014-05-05 14:41:34
A glossy Manon Lescaut in Baden-Baden
The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and its conductor Simon Rattle chose Puccini’s Manon Lescaut to represent the lyrical side of their second passage in Baden-Baden’s Easter Festival. Compared to last year’s opening with the Enchanted Flute, it was a huge stylistic deviation, especially since it was the first time Rattle conducted an opera by the Italian composer. There can be no doubt about it any longer: the true stars of the show were the orchestra and the conductor. With more players and a piece of work more suited than Mozart’s to showcase its symphonic abilities, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra offered an endless and exhilarating sonic splendor. It was an outstanding performance, with intense tutti, translucent pianissimi, velvet strings (the cellos’ pizzicati), perfect solos (especially from the woodwinds). There are limits, however, to the sonic hedonism which puts the orchestra and its conductor in the forefront: their lack of experience of the […]
2013-12-17 16:58:54
The Cleveland Orchestra in Paris : An event in itself
The Cleveland Orchestra has a prominent place, both among the greatest American orchestras and in music-lovers’ hearts. It is indeed legitimately considered one of the famous “Big Five,” with some of the best conductors of the twentieth century, such as George Szell, Lorin Maazel, and Christoph van Dohnanyi, having conducted it. Its chief conductor has been Austrian conductor Franz Welser-Möst for a decade now. The orchestra is in great shape, and its coming for two concerts at the Salle Pleyel was eagerly awaited. The night’s program was quite atypical, since it did not include any short piece, nor any concerto. The concert was more of a comparison, or even a long-distance showdown, between two of the greatest symphonic composers in the history of music, namely Beethoven and Shostakovich. However, it was clear from the beginning that the German composer would fall by the wayside: his two programmed works were […]
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