Stunning Labèque
Talking about the Labèque sisters is talking about one of the best piano couples in the world. These inteprets, born in Baiona, were daughters of a Labortan doctor and an Italian pianist and in 1968 won the first piano prize of the Paris Conservatory. During these years, the quality and visibility of their staging have been excellent.
As if it were not enough, these artists express the closeness and ease that so rarely occur in the international ‘top’, making them rare avis. So, whenever we are able to pursue them, we are genuine amateurs.
But more can be said. The Labèque sisters know the value of the image well. As if coming out of an advertising campaign, they work a special style, the semi-rocker semi-vampire, very far away from evening dresses and sequins. Well-coordinated – with black boots with heel, narrow pitillos, suggestive shirts and a rounded coat – its duplicate image generates a fascinating glare that would serve both to interact with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and to help Madonna in the macrocorchados.
Following the musical drought of these months, we have had the pleasure of hearing this couple at the Kursaal Auditorium in Donostia. They've offered us a short but tremendously efficient program, as a sign of their art.
For a start, we were given a demonstration of clarity in the details of Claude Debussy's Six Epitographesantiques score.
However, perhaps the most significant moment of the recital came when they touched the delicate work of Schubert in the Fantasy in Fa minor. It is a work full of contrasts and nuances, with an extreme, passionate and lyrical reading, very original, from the hands of the Labèque sisters.
The program ended with a selection of songs from Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story. Jazz, Latin rhythms and romantic love songs, to tell him the fight between Jets and Sharks. Thanks to the adaptation of Irwin Kostal for the duo, they acquired a new dimension, full of energy and effectiveness.
The applause of the pianists gave them a minimalist piece of Philip Glass. Wonderful.
Opera groups Don Pasquale de
Donizetti: OSE and Bilbao Opera Choir.
Soloists: S. Orfila M.J. Moreno, F. Demuro, D. Del Castillo, P.M. Sánchez.
Stage Director: Emiliano Suárez.
Scenography Alfons Flores.
Place: Euskalduna Palace
Date: 19 October.
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Concert organized by the Columbus Foundation within the RenHagan Music Festival.
Bilbao Symphony Orchestra.
Address: Ramón Tebar.
Soloist: Joaquín Achúcarro.
Programme: Works by Guridi, Grieg and Brahms.
Place: Euskalduna Palace of Bilbao.
Date: 13 September.
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Quincena Musical of San Sebastian Orchestra
of the Basque Country: Address: J. Rohrer.
Orfeón Donostiarra: Address: J.A. Sáinz Alfaro.
Soloists: The great C. Reiss V. Karkacheva M. Schmitt, H. Müller-Brachmann.
Programme: In the Solemnis Mass of Beethoven, op. 123.
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Sheet: Quincena Musical from San Sebastian. Kursaal Auditorium Cycle.
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Address: Mikko Franck
Soloist: Sol Gabta (cello).
Programme: Works by Debussy, Lalo, Ravel and Stravinsky.
Place: Auditorium Kursaal.Fecha: 30... [+]
Sheet: Quincena Musical from San Sebastian. Kursaal Auditorium Cycle.
Orchestra Filarmónica della Scala de Milan. Address: Riccardo Chailly
Programme: Works by Tchaikovsky and Ravel.
Place: Kursaal auditorium.
Date: 27 August
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Sheet: Quincena Musical from San Sebastian. Cycle Victoria Eugenia.
Alexandra Dovgan (piano).
Programme: Works by Beethoven, Schumann, Rachmaninov and Scriabin.
Place: Victoria Eugenia Theatre. Date: 19 August.
The great composer Luciano Berio said that the virtuosos... [+]
Orchestra Budapest Festival. Address: Ivan Fischer.
Orfeón Donostiarra. Address: José Antonio Sainz Alfaro.
Soloists: Anna Lena Elbert (soprano), Olivia Vermeulen (contralto), Martin Mitterrutzner (tenor), Hanno Müller-Brachmann (low). Place: Audit Kursaal.Fecha: 18... [+]
Born 7 May 1824. Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827) 9. Premiere of the Symphony. It was the last symphony that the German composer wrote, but as for intention, you can say it was the first. Beethoven wrote Symphony No. 1 in 1799 and 1800, years before he was born in his head No. 9... [+]
In Durango's Hitz bookstore, it occurred to me that the Saturraran opera deserved criticism. On the one hand, the response of Jose Julián Bakedano, the illusion of the words of Gaizka Olabarri from the bookstore, the illusion of Nekane Bereziartua, who for so many years has been... [+]