Where does it take place?
EL BATEL: OSRM Symphonic Cycle in Concert I
OSRM SYMPHONIC CYCLE – Concert I
PROGRAM:
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG (1874 -1951)
Transfigured Night, Op. 4
PIOTR I. TCHAIKOVSKI (1840-1893)
Serenade for strings in C major, Op. 48
Virginia Martinez, director
Paco Azorín, scenography
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Arnold Schoenberg, we will listen to one of the most interesting works written at the end of the 19th century, for its powerful way of describing nature and expressing human emotions. The composer who years later invented a system of composition, dodecaphony, which would open the doors to the avant-garde movements of the 20th century, created with Transfigured Night a masterpiece of musical expressionism. Let us recall, for its pictorial similarity, the painting The Scream by Edvard Munch. Initially written for a sextet in 1917, Schoenberg arranged the work for string orchestra, a version that we will listen to.
Virginia Martínez returns to the Symphony with another great work, Tchaikovsky's Serenade, composed just nineteen years before Transfigured Night and with a similar orchestral template. A complete contrast of style, expressiveness, beauty and musical inventiveness. A stage intervention by Paco Azorín from Yecla, a national figure on the theatre scene, will provide the visual touch, accentuating the contrast with great plasticity.