Kazushi Ono: Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

演出简介

Kumiko Shuto, Kifu Mitsuhashi and Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kazushi Ono, will perform works by Takemitsu and R. Strauss at the Auditori de Barcelona.

The Alpine Symphony is one of the favourite orchestral works of the Straussians. Written in 1915, this work describes for us eleven hours of adventures of a mountain climber. Strauss composed the Alpine in a time of his life in which he was focusing on opera. For this reason, more than being a descriptive work of the adventures of a mountaineer, The Alpine is an opera without voices, in which a brave protagonist faces the forces of nature. In fact, Strauss was not biographically alien to the world of the mountain: in 1908, he built a house in Garmisch‐Partenkirchen (Bavaria), one of his favourite places to compose. On the other hand, the imaginary hero of this symphony has an undeniable coexistence with Nietzsche's Zarathustra, a hermit who makes nature, often inhospitable, into his refuge.

If there is a composer far removed from the bombastic Straussian sound, it is the Japanese Toru Takemitsu. November Steps is one of his many compositions, where the author uses traditional instruments from his country, such as the biwa and shakuhachi. Inspired by the work of Debussy, the composition is an essay on sonic and aesthetic differences that exist between Western and oriental music.

Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya (OBC)
Kazushi Ono, conductor
Kumiko Shuto, biwa
Kifu Mitsuhashi, shakuhachi