Repertoire

Benet Casablancas: Tres epigrames (2001) 14′
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. ‎‎58 (1805-1806) 35′
Arnold Schönberg: Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31 (1926–28) 20′
Richard Strauss: Don Juan, Symphonic Poem, Op. 20 (1888) 20’

ARTISTS

Josep Colom, piano
Ludovic Morlot, conductor
Barcelona Symphony Orchestra (OBC)

Programme

The Three Epigrams that maestro Benet Casablancas composed in 2001 are to open a concert in which tradition converses with compositional innovation; particularly sharpened experimentation -thanks to his refreshing aspirations- on the Variations for orchestra by Arnold Schönberg, which the composer from Barcelona kept in mind

Beethoven was also a revolutionary, despite now seeming more “accessible”. Major pianist Josep Colom is to tackle a score that is representative of the semantic richness of the father of Romanticism: his Piano Concert No 4 in G Major. This wide-ranging score includes the most ferocious expression of creative power yet also the subtlety of one who converses with silence and seems to harmonise it.

This wild subjectivity re-appears in the symphonic narrative of the adventures and misdeeds of Don Joan in the late 19th century; a century fascinated -right from the very start- by the transgression of the spirit of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Orchestral brilliance and the evocative power of Richard Strauss are to be deployed by the OBC under the baton of Ludovic Morlot.