After last week’s successful experience with more than 1,200 live online followers, the Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra will offer the next Season Ticket 9 concert for the winter season, on Friday, February 19 at 7:30 p.m. in streaming and through Youtube, free and for all audiences. The concert will feature the prestigious pianist Jan Lisiecki and under the direction of Roberto González-Monjas it will address a program with works by S. Rachmaninov and E. Humperdinck.
The activity of the OSCyL does not stop as a result of the suspension of face-to-face services in the cultural centers dependent on the Community and maintains its programming, abandoning its face-to-face character, to offer it live via streaming, through the YouTube channel. A formula that was already used in a new way last Friday, February 5, with the online broadcast of the Subscription 8 concert and that had a great impact, with more than 1,200 followers of the live concert and a multitude of positive comments, as well as criticism professionals in social networks and specialized magazines, who showed the success in the proposed proposal as well as in the technical execution of the concert.
Thus, the Subscription 9 concert for the winter season, initially planned for in-person enjoyment, will be offered next Friday, February 19 at 7:30 p.m. through the OSCyL YouTube channel. An online broadcast, open and free, with the aim of continuing to bring culture to all homes, within the objective set by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of betting on safe culture at times like the present, due to the health situation . Thus, the concert will take place without an audience, in accordance with Order CYT 47/2021, of January 21, which suspends face-to-face services to citizens in cultural centers dependent on the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Concert of Subscription 9
The Winter 20/21 season of the Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra started on January 7 and will address six programs with great works, soloists and conductors, which will run until March 20. Subscription 9 will include the participation of the prestigious Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki, replacing the initially planned soloist, the Chinese pianist Yuja Wang, who due to the current situation has had to cancel all her activity for the next three months. Jan Lisiecki, who performs for the first time with the OSCyL, stands out for his performances and technique, which speak of a maturity beyond his age. The Canadian became the youngest winner of the Gramophone Young Artist award and received the Leonard Bernstein award. Now 25 years old, the Canadian offers more than one hundred concerts a year around the world and has worked closely with conductors such as Antonio Pappano, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Daniel Harding and Claudio Abbado. Orchestras that have invited him to work with them include the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Scala Philharmonic, St. Cecilia, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, in performances at Hamburg’s Carnegie Hall and Elbphiharmonie. Lisiecki has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Bavarian Radio Symphony, and the London Symphony Orchestra. Lisiecki was appointed UNICEF Ambassador to Canada in 2012.
Jan Lisiecki will perform, together with the Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra, the ‘Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 2 in C minor, op. 18 ‘by Sergei Rachmaninov and in the second part of the program, the OSCYL will address for the first time the suite’ Hänsel and Gretel ‘by Engelbert Humperdinck, a suite conceived by director Roberto González-Monjas, prepared by Takahiro Sakuma. González-Monjas, who has led the OSCyL on different occasions from the 2016 to 2020 seasons, has established himself as an interesting figure on the international music scene. Concertmaster for six years of the Orchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome, he is currently the principal conductor and artistic advisor of the Dalasinfoniettan (Sweden), and appointed principal conductor of the Musikkollegium Winterthur (Switzerland) in recognition of the long and fruitful collaboration of the conductor with this orchestra.
The ‘Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18’ by Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) with three movements, was composed and premiered in 1901, the author dedicating the work to Dr. Nicolai Dahl, with whom the composer Rachmaninov underwent therapy for his depression, considered one of the few doctors with a known name who is remembered in the history of music for his success. This same work has been performed by the OSCyL on up to seven occasions, the last being in the 2014-2015 season, under the direction of John Axelrod with Kathia Buniatishvili on piano.
The second part of the program will offer the suite ‘Hänsel and Gretel’ by Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921) in a version conceived by director Roberto González-Monjas, prepared by Takahiro Sakuma. A work premiered in Weimar in 1893 and which, due to its popularity in the Germanic and Anglo-Saxon spheres, far superior to what can be supposed in Spain, makes it a German repertoire opera. The work has a series of characteristics by virtue of which it can be considered an opera of the Wagnerian school.
The idea of extracting a suite from the opera is not a new invention and, with this staging, the concert fans will have the opportunity to enjoy the enthusiastic desire of the director González-Monjas, who will undoubtedly light a Score superior to the existing ones in terms of dramaturgy and coherence. It will be the first time that the Symphony Orchestra of Castilla y León addresses this work by Engelbert Humperdinck.
Youtube channel link OSCyL:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAHN1yIObGL9VF_0R-IxWJw
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