Teatro Colón – West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Opening Concert

Synopsis

“A city in a state of emergency” was the euphoric title of the article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung describing the performance of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in Buenos Aires. Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra make a guest appearance every year during their Summer Residency in several evening concerts at the Teatro Colón. With the greatest of ease, they represent one of the highlights of the Festival de Música y Reflexión: the musicians enthralled their audience with Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 – the piece Martha Argerich played at her debut at the Teatro Colón at the age of eight and with which she returned to the Teatro after a prolonged abstinence – plus two premieres of works by Roustom and Adler and Ravel’s evergreens. In the Ravel in particular, the Divan musicians were able to prove “their filigree tone, their mastery of pianissimo through to the barely audible and many other merits”. (FAZ)

Additional Info

• No: A835500030000
• Composer: Beethoven, Ravel, Mozart, Schumann
• Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
• Orchestra: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
• Artists: Martha Argerich
• Production year: 2014
• Run time: 01:56:00
• Director: Tilo Krause
• Producers: A co-production of Artear and UNITEL CLASSICA in cooperation with the Teatro Colón and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
• Format: HDTV 16:9