Iván Martín, piano / Yaron Traub, guest conductor
Eighth concert of Alicante Provincial Assembly Auditorium main orchestra in the symphonic season 2022-23, lto the ADDA Symphony, It was led on this occasion by Israel, a well-known director of the people of Alicante. yaron traumaformer director Valencian Orchestra and resides in Altea with the Canarian pianist ivan martin as a soloist.
Alexander Scriabin
(Moscow 1872- Petrograd, 1915)
Concerto in F sharp minor for piano and orchestra (opus 20)
Scriabin began taking piano lessons at the age of ten, where he would continue with Safonov at the Moscow Conservatory while studying music theory and composition. After this formation, he started his virtuoso career in piano, first in Russia and in Europe from 1896. From 1898 to 1905 he taught piano at the Moscow Conservatory. The piece we will listen to today is from this moment of his life, which he wrote in 1897, when he was still in the early stages of his creative phase. The concert premiered on November 28, 1898 in St. Petersburg, the writer was at the piano, and his teacher was the director of the Safonov orchestral ensemble. Although the piano part is bright and loose, the piece does not offer any originality or great relief in orchestration, so it did not reach the popularity of his symphonies, especially the Divine Poem, the third of his symphonies (opus 45). , February 2, nor have we heard of Poems of Ecstasy, Prometeo or Poema del fuego. Andante, the second part of this concerto for piano and orchestra, consists of five variations on the same theme, the first and the last being Allegro.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
(Votkinsk 1840- Saint Petersburg, 1893)
Symphony No. 1 in G minor, “Winter Dreams” (opus 13)
Tchaikovsky, who studied law in Saint Petersburg before entering the recently established conservatory in 1862, would prove to be Russia’s only truly romantic musician. Among the Russian symphonists, he gave the greatest future to the post-Beethoven symphony with both his six symphonies and his Manfredo, which we will hear at the end of April this season. The first of his symphonies, subtitled Winter Dreams, premiered on February 3, 1868, under the direction of Nikolai Rubinstein, in Moscow, where the composer taught at the Conservatory and was an active music critic. Scherzo had announced it with the same director who was going to premiere the entire work in Moscow two years earlier. When the composer undertook the creation of this First Symphony, a task so laborious as to alter his health, he had published minor symphonic works such as The Tempest overture and the overtures in C minor and F major. Despite the warm welcome of the public at its premiere, Rubinstein urged him to make changes to the 1874 version, in which the version we will hear today makes changes in three movements: the first two and the Finale for two woodwinds, four pipes, two trumpets and two timpani and an orchestra of strings, a piccolo flute. combines trombones, tuba, bass drum and cymbals. The subtitle Winter Dreams refers not to the period between March and November when the piece was composed, but to memories of Scandinavian nature observed on trips between Saint Petersburg and Moscow; Memories in which Tchaikovsky saw his innate melancholic tendencies reflected. Only the first two chapters have subtitles: A Winter Journey Through Dreams in the opening allegro, and Dismal Shire, Misty Shire in the adagio.