Symphonic Season
We are proposing a new form of vibration – some through the scheduled performances, others through the artists themselves, and always aiming to form part of a unique and meaningful shared musical experience.
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Music only exists because something vibrates. Because matter is set in motion and is transformed. To vibrate is to tremble or be deeply moved by something.. And that is what we are presenting for this new Season. We are proposing a new form of vibration – some through the scheduled performances, others through the artists themselves, and always aiming to form part of a unique and meaningful shared musical experience. Because we vibrate on stage and with the audience.
In this musical overview of the Season, we will be thrilled by the revival of *La vie profonde de Saint François D’Assise*, which Aita Donostia premiered in Paris in 1926, a hundred years ago. As the epicentre of the avant-garde movement, the French capital brought together other contemporary composers such as Falla and his friends, Debussy and Stravinsky, whose programme will demonstrate how they were three fundamental pillars of the musical renewal of the 20th century. Another cornerstone of musical architecture leads us to Bach — both as a starting point and as a source of inspiration—where seven composers from the 19th and 20th centuries reinvent the German genius’s technical perfection, breathing new life into it. A leap in time transporting us to the America of the Venezuelan Pacho Flores and is virtuoso trumpet playing, delighting in stories of flowers, tangos, song and turnabouts.
And life is full of twists and turns: after many years, two leading figures in the world of the piano and contemporary music history are returning to the season: Christian Zacharias, who will perform as both pianist and conductor, and Elisabeth Leonskaja. The seasoned experience of these great artists will stand in stark contrast to the promising youth of the tenor Luken Munguira, risen through the ranks of the choir, and Jone Martínez, already well established with a distinguished international career. Voices that will give way to others and bring to life the great choral ensemble comprising the Orfeón Donostiarra, the Coro Easo and the Sociedad Coral de Bilbao. Others, these anonymous, will shape a new choir for the third editions of Abestu Euskadiko Orkestrarekin.
They and many others will captivate us with a variety of stories that cross over between good and evil, inviting us to reflect on themes such as life and death. Gustav Mahler, in all his symphonic breadth together with Sergey Prokofiev, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Bela Bartok and Dmitri Shostakovich will appear in a Season that is also bringing back the Ten Basque Melodies by Jesús Guridi to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the first Basque Government.
