ORQUESTRA SIMFÒNICA 2018_2019 OBC DE BARCELONA I NACIONAL DE CATALUNYA KAZUSHI ONO DIRECTOR TITULAR

NO. 15

KENT NAGANO CONDUCTS THE RITE OF SPRING

9th and 10th MARCH 2019

HALL 1 PAU CASALS

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Gergiev & Trifonov

Orquestra Simfònica del Teatre Mariinsky Daniil Trifonov, piano Valery Gergiev, director

Rakhmàninov, Concert per a piano núm. 1, en fa sostingut menor, op. 1 Mahler, Simfonia núm. 5

Dilluns, 11 març de 2019 - 20.30 H

T. 93 317 90 50 www.ibercamera.com No. 15 MARCH 2019 Saturday 9th at 7 pm KENT NAGANO Sunday 10th at 11 am CONDUCTS THE RITE OF SPRING PROGRAMME

Kent Nagano conductor · Jean-Yves Thibaudet piano

CLAUDE DEBUSSY 17’ Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1862 - París 1918 Jeux: poème dansé (1912-1913)

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS 29’ París 1835 - Alger 1921 Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 5 in F major, op. 103 “Egyptian” (1896) Allegro animato Andante Molto allegro

Jean-Yves Thibaudet piano

PAUSE 20’

IGOR STRAVINSKY 33’ Oranienbaum 1882 - Nova York 1971 The Rite of Spring (revised version 1947) (1911-1913) PART I: Adoration of the Earth Introduction / The Augurs of Spring (Dances of the Young Girls) / approximate. of the concert are The times and duration Ritual of Abduction / Spring Rounds / Ritual of the Rival Tribes / Procession of the Sage / The Sage / Dance of the Earth PART II: The Sacrifice Introduction / Mystic Circle of the Young Girls / Glorification of the Chosen One /Evocation of the Ancestors / Ritual Action of the Ancestors / Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen One)

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L' Auditori is a consortium of Media partners NOTES No. 5 No. famous Ballets Russes. Theprogramme includesthebrilliantPiano Concerto of Spring by Igor Stravinsky, which were commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev’s share thesame artisticorigin:theballets Jeux, by Claude Debussy, andThe Rite The great Americanconductor Kent Nagano brings together two scores that the piano. Thecomposerexplains that“thepassage inSol isasongofNubian character ofasoundpaintingthat includes,amongothers, Gamelaneffects on which Saint-Saëns gives very precise indications to recreate the rhapsodic and highlyeffective contrasts. Themostoriginalmovement istheAndante, in -fast-slow-fast- and combinemelodicinspiration, delicate transparencies The three movements of his lastpianoconcerto follow theclassical structure famous French composer, conductor andpedagogue. fantasy inthepainting of atmospheres, and much science in the writing of the of musicalfidelityintheuseorientalforms andrhythms. There is,therefore, inspiration, but always withaspiritofstylisedevocation, withoutpretensions on 2June1896 attheSallePleyel inParis, offers pages ofcolourandexotic the Eastrefracted through Western sensibility. Indeed,thescore, premiered stay in Luxor, Camille Saint-Saëns depicts with skill and refinement, a vision of dance.In score with a gallant spirit, a pretext for succumbing to the passion of the makes themleave thepark.Withthisbenignplot,Debussy creates amasterful is theninterrupted by theappearance ofanother ball thatscares themand girls search for undertherays ofanelectriclamp, inasensualgame, which is thecentral plotoftheballet,conceived by Nijinsky- a young manandtwo harmonic refinements, nuanceandscore, aslightthetennis ballsthat-this fascinated by its continuousfragmentation ofsoundmaterial, games and as Pierre Boulez, Jean Barraqué and Bernd Alois Zimmermann, who were an innovative andprophetic work, obsessively analysed by composers such architecture, conceived asasurprisinglyrefined mosaicconstruction. It is audacious Debussy isseductive, always seekingamore complex musical as the protagonist. In this work, the sound andharmonic richness of a most Pierre Monteux, withthelegendary dancerandchoreographer Vaslav Nijinsky premiere of 15 May 1913, overshadowed by the monumental and historic scandal of the Jeux per J avier “Egyptian” is adancedpoem,andwent almostunnoticedwhenitpremiered on Piano Concerto No. 5, in F major “Egyptian”, written partly duringa P érez The Rite ofSpring. The two ballets debuted under the direction of S by Camille Saint-Saëns. enz love that I have heard sung by the rowers on the Nile”. In the final movement, he displays an irresistible virtuosity, with a fine orchestration that culminates in a radiant and brilliant coda.

Igor Stravinsky had the idea of writing a kind of primitive spring symphony under the title of The Great Sacrifice, but Diaghilev advised him to transform the project into a great ballet, The Rite of Spring: the premiere of this masterpiece on 29 May 1913 at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées caused one of the most formidable scandals in the history of music.

The youthful impulse and the violence and raw tension that runs through The Rite of Spring remains fresh and alive as a symbol of modernity more than a century after its premiere. However, beneath the explosion of energy and dazzling colours, the brilliant Russian composer offers, with innovative fantasy, soft nuances and an admirable balance of the orchestral template. The modernity of the language and a sense of narration that avoids any romantic concession is captured in a score of surprising precision, transparent, clear and agitated by the disquieting role that the rhythm plays as the driving force behind the narration.

The composer himself explains the plot idea that inspired the ballet, conceived as a diptych, in two parts - The Adoration of the Earth and The Sacrifice: “I had dreamed a scene of pagan ritual in which a chosen sacrificial virgin dances herself to death. I am not telling a story, they are pictures of pagan unified by a unique and fundamental idea: the mystery of the emergence of the creative power of nature.”

Stravinsky masterfully begins the work with a memorable bassoon solo, in an atmosphere of magic and mystery that gives way to a music of unfaltering tension and dramatic vigour. The rhythmic variety, the sensuality, the vertiginous succession of musical ideas that are the driver of an unstoppable energy, respond to a revolutionary orchestral science, so that all the instruments featuring in the immense template play a preponderant role in a succession of dances and transitions of such innovative force that they have changed the course of the history of music. ORQUESTRA SIMFÒNICA DE BARCELONA I NACIONAL DE CATALUNYA Marbà, Salvador Mas,Franz-Paul Decker, LuisAntonio García Navarro, Lawrence Foster, been Kazushi Ono. Otherprincipalconductors have beenRafael Ferrer, Antoni Ros The first principalconductor was Eduard Toldrà, andsinceSeptember 2015 it has and Carnegie Hall. Musikverein, WienerKonzerthaus, Concertgebouw, Royal AlbertHall,Kennedy Center Familia andhastoured inEurope, AsiaandUnited States, performing invenues as emblematic placessuchastheCathedral Square, Barceloneta BeachortheSagrada concerts thatbringorchestral musiccloserto thepublic.It alsoorganizes concerts in at L’Auditori, where over twenty seasonalprogrammes are performed, aswell asother symphonic music,mainlyfrom thenineteenth centuryincurrent creations. It isbased to society, itnurtures ourartists andourheritage, andhasamission to disseminate while maintainingtheoriginalspiritofPau Casals, opento theworld andcommitted the Pau Casals Orchestra project (1920-1937) that the Civil War interrupted. Nowadays, The OBCwas founded by theCityCouncil ofBarcelona in1944, asaconsolidationof * collaborator Coricelli, and clarinetinbminor/Alfons Reverté, bass clarinet/Xavier Castillo*, bass clarinetBASSOONS Silvia Molly Judson,English horn soloist / Roberto Turlo*, Bea Cambrils /MirjamPlas* /Christian Farroni, assistant /Ricardo Borrull,piccolo / NenadJovic* /Stanislava Stoyanova* FLUTES Franciscosoloist López,/Havard Lysebo*, guest Smyshlyaev, / Jordi Claret* /Carmen Enjamio* /AmaiaRuano* DOUBLEBASSES Christoph Rahn,soloist /Dmitri Núria Calvo /Lourdes Duñó/VincentEllegiers /Olga Manescu/Jean-Baptiste Texier /Daniel Claret* / Albert Romero* / Johan Gregory Rondón* / Marta Sedó* / Marc Tarrida* CELLOS José Mor, / MichelMilletMiquelSerrahima /Jennifer Stahl /Andreas Süssmayr /Irene Argüello* /Paula Hervás* guest soloist/JosephineFitzpatrick,assistant /Franck Heudiard /Christine deLacoste /SophieLasnet Frédéric Descarregues* /GabrielGraells* /SeiMorishima* /ArianaOroño* Paul VIOLAS Cortese*, Llorens / Melita Murgea / Antoni Peña / Josep Maria Plana / Robert Tomàs / Alfonso Aldeanueva* / guest soloist / Emil Bolozan, Oleksandr Sora* /Elitsa Yancheva* SECOND Alexandra VIOLINS Presaizen, soloist/Christo Kasmetski*, Salicrú /Paula Banciu*/SamuelCubarsi* /Andrea Duca*/Clàudia Farrés* /Oksana Solovieva* / Ebenberger /AnaIsabel Galán/NataliaMediavilla /Katia Novell /MaríaPilarPérez /AncaRatiu /Jordi assistant concertmaster /LiviuMorna*, assistant concertmaster FIRST VIOLINSVladStanculeasa, Achúcarro, Claudio Arrau, ArthurRubinstein... Mörk, , PiotrAnderszewski, GilShaham,RudolfBuchbinder, Joaquín Larrocha, PinchasZukerman, MarthaArgerich, JoshuaBell,GidonKremer, Truls Arcadi Volodos, PlácidoDomingo, Montserrat Caballé, Teresa Berganza, Aliciade Barenboim, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Isaac Stern, Radu Lupu, , and Leonard Slatkin. Among the guest soloists, Lang Lang, Janine Jansen, Daniel Krivine, JesúsLópezCobos, Marc Minkowski, MichelPlasson, Mstislav Rostropòvitx by Sergiu Celibidache, Valeri Gergiev, Christopher Hogwood, EliahuInbal,Emmanuel Ernest MartínezIzquierdo, EijiOueandPablo González.It hasalsobeenconducted Montesinos, Calvo* /Andreu Moros* TROMBONES EusebioSáez,soloist/VicentPérez /Alberto Bonillo* /Gaspar Gabriel Zahonero* TRUMPETS assistant soloist /David Rosell, assistant double bass TECHNICAL MANAGER Ignasi Valero STAGE CREWJoanLuis Cano* ORCHESTRA MANAGER Walter Ebenberger MUSICDOCUMENTATION MANAGER Begoña Pérez / DanielIshanda* /Miquel Àngel Martínez*HARPMagdalena Barrera /MartaJarne* CELESTA Dolors Martínez* / Jacobo Moya* soloist HORNS Juan Manuel Gómez, assistant /JonathanCamps /Apostol Kosev /JosepMensa /Matthew Nelson/AlbertPrat assistant / Noé Cantú / Laura Guasteví* /ThomasGreaves, assistant/ NoéCantú /Slawomir /Laura Guasteví* Krysmalski, / Raul García, bass trombone /Francisco Palacios*, bass trombone TUBA Daniel guest soloist/ José Juan Pardo / Maria José Meniz* / Dolors Chiralt, LarryPassin,CLARINETS soloist PERCUSSION Joan Marc Pino, assistant Mireia Farrés, soloist concertino / María José Balaguer / Jana Brauninger / Patricia Bronisz / Mireia / Pablo Cadenas* /Iván Carrascosa* /JoséAntonio Soria*/ soloist / Joan Aragó / David Bonet / Juan Conrado García, / CristianChivu, associate concertmaster /Raúl García, / Adrián Moscardó / Angel Serrano, assistant assistant / Juan Francisco Ruiz / Ignasi Vila / Francesc Navarro /JosepFuster, assistant / María José Aznar /Sarah Bels/Walter/ MaríaJoséAznar Disa English, OBOESDisaEnglish, assistant soloist soloist / / Raúl / / ©Benjamin Ealovega www.jeanyvesthibaudet.com concerts in2002, 2009 and2017. collaborates with the OBC, after their This isthefourth timethatthepianist the first time. Kent Nagano conducts theOBCfor KENT NAGANO THIBAUDET JEAN-YVES During thiscurrent seasonhewillperform inatotal Prize diplomafrom theConservatory. Descaves. Hecompleted hisstudieswithaFirst Conservatory with AldoCiccolini andLucette Born inLyon, hewent to studyattheParis among others. concerts inBerlin,Vienna,Munich and Paris, he willdoanothertour withtheMSO, performing Staatsorchester HamburgandinMarch thisyear Canary Islands withthePhilharmonisches In January2019 hetoured Spainandthe of theDeutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. in 2006hewas appointed Honorary Conductor Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, and State Opera andPrincipal Conductor ofthe General MusicalDirector ofthe Hamburg Orchestra. InSeptember 2015 hewas appointed guest conductor oftheGothenburgSymphony 2006. InSeptember 2013, hebecameprincipal Symphony Orchestra (MSO) sinceSeptember He hasbeenmusicdirector oftheMontreal the establishedrepertoire. contemporary music and offers a fresh look at comfortable with classical, romantic and and intelligent performances. Heisequally Kent Nagano isfamous for hislucid,elegant the Hollywood Bowl Walk ofFame. Victoire d’Honneur, aswell as being included in Oficier by the French Ministry ofCulture andthe Gramophone andEcho. Hewas awarded thetitle d’Or, Choc duMonde de la Musique,EdisonPrize, der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, Diapason He hasreceived nominationsfor aGrammy, Preis and hasmore than50albumsinhisdiscography. Thibaudet records exclusively for DeccaRecords in-Residence of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. of Germany, AustriaandIsrael. HeisalsoArtist- will also include recitals at Carnegie Hall and a tour Los Angeles philharmonicorchestras. Hisschedule and Cleveland orchestras and the New York and and Atlanta symphony orchestras; Philadelphia and China; theSanFrancisco, Houston, Chicago the philharmonicorchestras ofMalaysia, HongKong orchestra andtheNHKsymphony orchestra, Tokyo; of fourteen countrieswiththeSingapore symphony

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