07 September 2007

Concert Berwaldhallen


Svenska:

Kvällens begivenhet blir Berwaldhallen.
De har haft ett specialerbjudande om biljetter för halva priset eller 'gå två betala för en'.

Det är Radiosymfonikerna och Stockholms studentsångare som under ledning av Daniel Harding framför som verk nummer ett, Gustav Mahler's 'Adagio' ur symfoni nr. 10.
Det var denna symfoni han aldrig hann avsluta innan han dog.

Symfonin har framförts i sin helhet i bl.a. Berwaldhallen på grundval av fragment av utkast som finns bevarade men dessa rekonstruktioner utgör självfallet endast gissningar kring hur Mahler hade velat att det skulle låta.

Den delen uppskattade vi båda mycket. Dynamiskt och kraftfullt, ibland kanske något för kraftfullt då vissa nyanser riskerade att gå förlorade.

Efter detta framfördes musik av Frans Liszt, hans 'Faustsymfoni', med Studentsångarna och tenoren Christopher Ventris som solist.

Detta stycke musik tyckte jag dock inte att de bemästrade. Rent orkestralt var det ok men vare sig studentsångarna eller solisten bar fram ordentligt och det måste till del kanske skyllas på Harding.
Ventris röst var jag inte heller förtjust i. Det var en något ansträngd tenorstämma som kändes lite 'gubbig' om jag får uttrycka mig så.

Dock var 50% av konserten bra och för halva priset får vi väl vara nöjda ändå.
(Exemplet nedan är samma adagio med Leonard Bernstein och Wiener Filharmonikerna)

The Faust Symphonie with Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Georg Solti:


English:

The event of the evening is Berwaldhallen (concert hall in Stockholm, named after Franz Berwald).

They have a special offer with tickets for half the ordinary price or 'go two and pay for one'.

It's the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Stockholm Academic Male Chorus who - conducted by Daniel Harding - perform two pieces and as piece number one we hear Gustav Mahlers 'Adagio' from his Symphony nr. 10. (The extract above with the adagio is nto with Harding but with Leonard Bernstein and Wiener Philharmonic)

This was the symphony he never completed before he died.

The symphony has been performed in its entirety in among other places Berwaldhallen.

Those performances was however based on the fragments of drafts that one have found but these reconstructions is of course only guessings concerning how Mahler would have liked it to sound.

This part of the concert we both liked very much. Dynamic and powerful, sometimes maybe to powerful as some nuances ran the risk of being lost.

After this, Frans Liszt and his 'Faust symphony' with the 'Student singers' and the tenor Christopher Ventris as a soloist.

I didn't find that they mastred this piece of music. Orchestrally it was ok but neither the choir or the soloist was heard properly and maybe Harding is to blame for this.
I was not to found of Ventris voice. It was somewhat strained and felt a bit 'oldish' if I can express myself in that manner.

However 50% of the concert was to our satisfaction and with half the price for the tickets we were satisfied anyway.

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