The Euskadi Symphony Orchestra has once again made us enjoy a short, effective and well-interpreted programme. We can never know what circumstances make the best out of us. But it is true that moments of disgust are not always the worst. For example, in these difficult times the Euskadi Orchestra is demonstrating imagination and good sense in making attractive proposals for membership programmes.

On this occasion he presents us with representative works of two great composers who lived and created between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Two different styles, suggestive and exciting, easy to hear and yet complex, both harmonically and in sound textures.

The path of Jan Sibelius's violin concert was not easy. Its premiere in Helsinki was in 1903 a real disaster. Sibelius himself promised to never execute again. He then made a new version. But the first was not reinterpreted until 1991, and it really was worth it. It is a work full of emotions in which every chord, every harmony, goes directly to the heart, to the hardness of the miserable life.

The version of the Basque Orchestra, along with the soloist Augustin Hadelich, was that, the emotion and the lack of appearances. The Italo-American violinist is a pure, unartificially felt feeling that needs the music of Sibelius. The technique is so painstaking that we will only look at the abnormal result of sound. Hadelich showed us its versatility with an excellent bis: Louisiana Blues Strut: a cakewalk, by composer Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, boasts of grace and virtuosity.

The concert ended with the interpretation of the fifth symphony of Antonin Dvorak, a fundamental work in the production of the composer, in which for the first time they are characterized by their characteristic work. In the fifth symphony, folkloric music, its melodies and rhythms, from the hometown of Bohemia, and from other Slavic regions, began to be part of its style. This work represented an advance towards the Wagnerian style, still visible in its fourth symphony. The Orchestra of the Basque Country, under the direction of Ruth Reinhardt, was able to draw all these nuances from the sheet music and make them reach the fascinated audience. Congratulations.