{"id":28101,"date":"2019-12-03T14:55:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T13:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=28101"},"modified":"2023-08-01T12:16:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T10:16:23","slug":"an-evening-in-vienna-at-the-salle-metropole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/musique\/le-temps-dune-soiree-viennoise-a-la-salle-metropole\/","title":{"rendered":"A Viennese evening at Salle M\u00e9tropole"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unpublished article - Jonas Follonier<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday, November 28, the Orchestre de la Suisse romande (OSR) performed two very different works at the Salle M\u00e9tropole, but linked by the same musical nation: Austria. Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27 and Anton Bruckner's Sixth Symphony were on the program. Here's an emotional look back at one of the concert's many highlights.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

There are few moments in our hyperconnected, anti-classical society when we can enjoy a breath of fresh air and a chance to focus. Classical music concerts, in particular, are among them. By this I mean the family of Western art music, encompassing both the Classical period in the strict sense and the Romantic period, for example. Not to mention everything that came before, starting in the Middle Ages, and everything that came after\u2014and everything that is yet to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, it would be a mistake to pit classical music against popular music. Take a repertoire like Aznavour\u2019s: classical music is present in it in the instrumentation<\/a>. And even a genre like metal isn't entirely unrelated with the Baroque<\/a>. Classical music, in the broadest sense, is part of our most basic daily lives, and I like to think that the less we forget this \u201clittle\u201d music\u2014which is actually great music\u2014the more we remember the connection that human beings have with something that transcends them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read also: Music, from silence to mysticism<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, classical music expresses transcendence: the transcendence of the infinitely small\u2014that is, the intimate\u2014in chamber music; and the transcendence of the infinitely large\u2014that is, the absolute\u2014in orchestral music. So let\u2019s make way for this evening, which falls into the second category. An evening marked by Vienna, since the two composers whose works are in the spotlight tonight\u2014Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Anton Bruckner\u2014both died in that city. Vienna, a city of music\u2014a city of diverse musical styles\u2014as evidenced by the stark contrast in sensibility one feels when listening to the former\u2019s concerto and the latter\u2019s symphony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mozart's Most Interesting Concerto<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Conducted by the renowned conductor Andris Poga\u2014who himself studied under Uros Lajovic at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna\u2014the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande opened its late-November concert with a performance of the Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat major, K. 595<\/em> by Mozart. A captivating concerto\u2014if not the most captivating of the master\u2019s concertos\u2014since it is also his last. This piece, with its unique melancholy and secret tenderness, was completed on January 5, 1791; when Mozart himself performed it in Vienna two months later at its premiere, he did not know that it would be the last time he would play the piano in public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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