Sol Gabetta and the Staatskapelle Berlin inspire with music at the world level

Sol Gabetta and the Staatskapelle Berlin inspire with music at the world level

Sol Gabetta and the Staatskapelle Berlin: Music at the world level

The cellist Sol Gabetta and the Staatskapelle Berlin gave an extraordinary concert in the state opera Unter den Linden in the middle of hot summer. The state chapel, regarded an orchestra of world rank, presented a demanding program that lay away from every opera routine and was a challenge for every symphony orchestra. With a suite by Benjamin Britten's "The Prince of the Pagodas", arranged by conductor Edward Gardner, and Béla Bartók's suite "The Wonderful Mandarin" played the Staatskapelle captivating and perfect reproduction. Despite the long and exhausting season, every single group of instruments in top form provided an impressive performance.

The season marked a turning point for the state chapel because it adopted and celebrated triumphals with Wagner's “Ring” by Daniel Barenboim, who had shaped the orchestra. The orchestra has made this confident and the musicians now feel like champions in the musical world. They not only play the grades, they also interpret the music in a special way. Especially at Bartók, the sparkling clean conduct from Gardner led to an outstanding result.

The state chapel created a spree painting that showed the exciting city in which the uncanny Chinese prince struggles for a prostitute, murdered his adversary and only dies in the girls' arms. It was shown how brilliant the combination of opera and concert orchestras can be and how important it is that the orchestra dominates both genres. At the moment, only the Vienna Philharmonic is probably playing on a similar level.

The high level of the evening was also achieved by the joint interpretation of Edward Elgar's cello concerto by the musicians of the State Opera and Sol Gabetta. With her stupid technology, Gabetta challenged the excellence of the orchestra musicians without working vain or virtuoso. Your technique in technology serves to transform music into emotions. The music thus lives out of itself and is stimulated by an intellectual artist who knows exactly how to create a whole world full of colors and nuances from a few note. Sol Gabetta connects the many different elements of the concert so well that they do not disintegrate, but form a large arc.

The state chapel enters this highest level and merges with the soloist into a sound space that offers many shades from unpainting drive to cool devotion. As an encore and sang Sol Gabetta played the piece "Dolcissimo" by the Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks. Your reproduction of the piece already listed beforehand merged her singing voice with the cello into a melancholy-Baltic white night. The extremely concentrated audience in the State Opera rewarded this with frenetic applause.