The voice of Galicia
Anton of Santiago
07/02/2021 05:00 h
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Great music must not stop. It is fulfilled by the GSO that, in the face of any restriction and absence of public, acts in the Coliseum, while it is evicted from the Opera Palace. On the 12th installment, Violin Concerto In Memory of an Angel, by Alban Berg, with Viviane Hagner (1977), and the Symphony n.º 1, Spring, by Robert Schumann. German director, Alexander Liebreich (1968). And sent home by YouTube.
Ever since Edison invented the phonograph and Berliner improved it into record form, recorded music has been heard. The transmission came through the radio (full Toscanini concerts) and the fusion of image and sound. More than a century. Before, centuries of face-to-face listening. However, an enrichment in every way. But the desideratum of the music lover is to feel enveloped by sound in a natural way. The same as the commentator. How to weigh mediated music? Disks are commented. But this is live and direct. First art and then technology for transmission. As in sports, you see the details. And it guides when focusing on soloists and sections. But there are no repetitions.
Alban Berg, a disciple of Schoenberg and his dodecaphonism wrote, on the verge of death, the violin concerto that he dedicated to the ill-fated Alma Manon Gropius, daughter of the founder of the Bauhaus and Alma Mahler. Touched, within the framework of a twelve-tone series, it includes tonal elements: popular songs and a Bach chorale, reflecting melancholy and regret. The dissonances, the suffering. The solo part (led by Louis Krasner) is demanding and even virtuosic. Formidable Hagner, very well supported by GSO and Liebreich.
Schumann creates his first symphony at age 31. He is elated. The title Spring. He has a program in his head for each time: Early spring, exultant; Sunset, melancholic romance without words; Playmates, playful scherzo, and Full spring, hatching. The orchestration was criticized, but with Liebreich’s spirited and fresh reading he arrives, with the quality of the orchestra, direct and exultant to the listener. Let the applause of each spectator go here online. That includes retransmission.
