The second concert of the subscription cycle of the Basque Symphony Orchestra has not been an ordinary session. On stage, many qualities and feelings accumulated that became an unforgettable encounter. On the one hand, a powerful program, which I will discuss later, composed of two beautiful works; and on the other, a soloist of a race who feels the music and its instrument in a terrible way and transmits that feeling to the public. The bilbaíno pianist Joaquín Achúcarro celebrated on November 1 85 years on the stage, like the great artists, and in full form.

Maurice Ravel dedicated the Piano and Orchestra Concert to the left Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein in Re Mayor, as this musician (brother of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein) lost his right arm I. During the World War. It's a beautiful, single-movement work, in which orchestral textures and diversity of nuances are very important. Despite the difficulties, Achúcarro taught a lesson. He was able to adapt his current technique to make a sleek, less perfect, but really suggestive version. As bis he gave away a Nokturn of Chopin, very intimistic, delicate and sense.

In the second part of the program, the Euskadi Orchestra and the new head director, Robert Treviño, offered a great work: Dmitri Xostakovich 11th Symphony in Minor Sun op. 103; year 1905. This immense symphony evokes the bloody Sunday of 1905 in Russia, with a programmatic style. The four parts of the play (Winter Palace Square, January 9, Eternal Memory and Tocsin – warning sign) appeared drawn with passion. This Schostakovich was a good pretext for seeing the identity of director Treviño. He's very young, he's only 34 years old, but he's an external director, who gives everything in the interpretations, who gets full in the score. It connected with the public, and perhaps this connection is what the Euskadi Orchestra needs right now. Good luck!