During these days, The Rake’s Progress will share the stage of the Teatro Colón with the Argerich Festival, which began on Saturday with the hall packed with a particularly effusive audience. To the point that –even during the soporific Nonet Op. 139 by Josef Rheinberger that articulated the first part– the applause abounded between each movement, which bothers music lovers “of the first hour”, but could also be interpreted as, For a moment, the long-awaited and necessary renewal of the public is being fulfilled.
When her time came, Martha Argerich illuminated with the sacred flame of her musically overwhelming personality. After responding to the lengthy welcome ovation with an austere gesture and an enginetic smile, the pianist settled in front of the instrument, squared her distinguished hair on her shoulders, and opened windows to the music with a meticulous and fiery version of the Piano Quintet. Op. 44, by Robert Schumann. From the opening chords, an angelic fanfare form, to the fugade and final recap, Argerich led from the piano, severe in rhythm, lyrical in melodic expansions, and relentless in contrasts.
The work, nourished by the palpitations and outbursts of musical Romanticism, had interpreters at the height of the circumstances, with Freddy Varela Montero and Tatiana Glava on violins, Fernando Rojas Huespe on viola and Stanimir Todorov on cello, musicians from the Permanent Orchestra of the Theater Colon. Although the question remains as to whether it would not have been even better, also for a matter of essential chemistry to make chamber music, to convene some of the excellent stable string quartets that circulate in our midst.
At the opening of his festival, Argerich shone and moved as expected, even making the programmers forget the idea of including Rheinberger’s “Nonet”, an insurmountably minor work by a modest composer, not even the barely good reading of a group of interpreters, who were nothing more than good individuals, he was able to save from their natural imbalances.
The Argerich Festival will continue on Wednesday at 8 pm with one of the most anticipated concerts: the hostess will receive Nelson Goerner, to play works by Debussy, Mozart and Rachmaninov as a piano duo. The concert, like all those of the festival, will be broadcast by streaming through www.teatrocolon.org.ar and the official networks of Colón.
2023-07-18 08:20:26
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