Conductor Guido Mancusi commemorated the countless traumatized children with “Somewhere” from Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story”. Bernstein’s “Symphonic Dances” formed the conclusion of this exciting concert, which began with a world premiere.
The Czech saxophonist Stepan Flagar, who is completing his master’s degree at the Institute for Jazz and Improvised Music, wrote a brilliant concerto. Much more than that, an almost 50-minute concertante symphony that builds space for improvisation and virtuosity in paths that have been set for the orchestra. A work that skilfully combines the two worlds of jazz and classical orchestra and carries you away with groovy patterns and weird rhythms. But even intimate moments are not neglected and offer a lot of charm. Friedrich Gulda’s cello concerto, which premiered in 1981, is no less border-crossing with an Alpine country idyll, hearty brass band music, elements of jazz and rock music, and almost unworldly classical elements interspersed in between. A humorous pasticcio, which, however, contains more than just daring moments for the soloist and reaches the limit of the unplayable. The cellist Lida Limmer, who was born in Stuttgart and is currently attending the Matura class at the Musikgymnasium Linz and is studying in Andreas Pözlberger’s class, inspired with virtuoso fireworks, the appropriate tongue-in-cheek approach to this music and with an extremely fine, expressive musicality, which she to play off the cadence and thus convincingly implement Gulda’s weird marvel. The orchestra of the Bruckner University under Guido Mancusi showed full commitment. (wuss)
Conclusion: A good program to think about.
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