At the Salzburg Festival on Saturday, musicAeterna, conducted by Teodor Currentzis, performed one of the most acclaimed programmes in their repertoire, 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, a selection of vocal and instrumental works by 𝐉𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐮.
‘The concert embodies the synthesis of art and a sense of total immersion in music. (...) For all its — spectacular — effects, as an ensemble, musicAeterna impresses primarily with a sound that achieves maximum cohesion thanks to the now legendary hours of rehearsals,’ the 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 writes.
‘Currentzis brings most fascinating moments of the highest calm and melodic beauty to life, occasionally interrupting the silence with a tap or a clap. And sometimes it’s the other way round: exultant movements and barely perceptible motifs in a diabolical procession find peace as if bewitched by magic,’ describes 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐡𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐤𝐭𝐤𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫.
And the 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 gives it five stars: ‘Saturday’s concert made it sound as if the pieces had been penned yesterday. Much of that is owed to the fleet virtuosity of the players — string sections who charge at runs without so much as a finger on the brakes, flawlessly together; winds who tackle melodies with creamy perfection and endless nuance. But it is also Currentzis himself, with his unashamed showmanship, his fanatical attention to detail and his evolving sense of depth and colour, who makes the music come to life.’
The Sound of Light will next be performed in Munich on May 2 and Paris on May 4.
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