Valladolid Jun (EFE).- The Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra (OSCyL) will honor the composer, violinist and conductor Tomás Bretón (1850-1923) on the occasion of the centenary of his death, through extraordinary concerts in Amsterdam, Stavanger and Madrid , as well as in Valladolid within the 2022/2023 season.
The OSCYL will visit the Concertgbouw (Amsterdam) and the Konserthus (Stavanger) this summer, it will travel to the Monumental (Madrid) and in Valladolid it will dedicate the main part of the subscription program on November 9/10, with the interpretation of the overture of the opera “Tabaré”, based on the epic poem of the same name.
Breton centenary
Bretón, born in Salamanca in 1850, was the main promoter of opera in Spain through compositions such as “Tabaré”, premiered in Buenos Aires in 1913 and based on the poem written years before, in 1888, by Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, described as by scholars as the national epic of Uruguay.
It recounts the love affair between an indigenous man and a Spanish woman during the warfare between Uruguay and Spain at the end of the 16th century.
This is one of the main novelties of the 2022/2023 season of the OSCyL, the second of Thyerry Fischer as principal director and which will take place between October and June, the content of which was presented this Friday in Valladolid by the Vice Minister of Cultural Action, Mar Sancho, and the manager of the musical group, Jesús Herrera.
Beethoven’s symphonies
Nineteen subscription programs plus an extraordinary concert by the RTVE Symphony Orchestra, on November 11 and directed by Christoph König, make up the next season that includes, among other programs, a musical journey through the symphonies of Ludwig Van Beethoven.
This is one of the top works of symphony, common in the repertoire of large orchestras, which shows Beethoven’s evolution as a composer and which the OSCyL had never comprehensively addressed before, as explained by the principal conductor in the introduction. to the book of the 2022/2023 season.
classic and romantic
The subscription will also include pieces by classical composers such as Joseph Haydn and Mozart; the romantics Hector Berlioz and Richard Wagner; by Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss; as well as the Russians Serguei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakóvich, among others; and the French Claude Debussy and Henry Dutilleu.
The OSCyL will also perform compositions by the Americans Aaron Copland, Joan Tower, Alberto Ginastera and John Adams; and from the Spanish, in addition to Bretón, by Enrique Granados, Manuel de Falla, Pablo Sarasate and the world premiere of a work by Albert Guinovart (Flute Concerto Number 2).
These nineteen concerts will be in charge, in addition to the chief conductor, Thierry Fischer, the associates Vasily Petrenko and Elim Chan; the guests Josep Pons, Roberto González-Monjas, Elena Schwarz, Pablo Rus and Ryan Bancroft, these last three leading the OSCyL for the first time.
Prestigious soloists and premieres
Among the soloists, the violinists Vilde Frang and Hilary Hahn stand out for their careers; pianist Sir Stephen Hough; cellists Jean-Guihen Queyras and Steven Isserlis; the flutist Emmanuel Pahud; tenor Ian Bostridge; and the Spaniards Cristina Gómez Godoy (oboe), Leticia Moreno (violin), Martín García García (piano), Alicia Amo (soprano) and María Toledo (singer).
There will be six national premieres: “A Sea Poem”, by the Irish composer Ina Boyle; Francisco Coll’s new orchestration of Manuel de Falla’s “Fantasía Bética”; the “Weathered” and “Glasslands” concerts by Anna Clyde, the “Divertimento” for strings by the Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz and the “Lyrical Pieces” by the Norwegian Orjan Matre.
Both the vice-counselor and the manager of the OSCyL have highlighted the intention to consolidate the international projection of the orchestra, as well as the 44 percent increase in the number of subscribers with the current 3,277. EFE