Pares Amorosos
Event
The cult of the virtuoso artist has given us the habit of attending concerts for soloist and orchestra. But the concerts for two soloists, in dialogue with each other and with an orchestra, bring other challenges and other stimuli to our ears. How do two pianos converse, without one trying to overlap the other? What do a percussionist and a pianist have in common? Or more common combinations in the Baroque period, with two violins or two oboes, for example. This was brilliantly done by Vivaldi, Telemann and Albinoni, key composers that Orquestra Barroca will present, with several of its members being soloists. But the first concert of this festival brings us contemporary music: the Remix Ensemble presents a Unsuk Chin’s Double Concerto, featuring pianist Jonathan Ayerst and percussionist Dirk Rothbrust. We have the prestigious French conductor Sylvain Cambreling to direct not only this concert, but also Orquestra Sinfónica, which invites the fabulous GrauSchumacher Piano Duo to perform Bach and Wolfgang Rihm — an opportunity to compare the approach in the same way in pieces separated by 250 years. The Orchestra closes the festival with conductor and pianist Christian Zacharias, who plays a Mozart Concerto in dialogue with pianist Yumeka Nakagawa.
