Written by Natalia Di Bartolo ©dibartolocritic —
Music: the universal language and timeless, but also inexhaustible source of inspiration for the same composers, who in the succession of time, inevitably affected each other, even in echoes and phrases “lent”not to say “stolen”, to each other.
Curious to notice in the present case, in the context of a new year's concert in Vienna, assisting then immediately after another in Catania, in an up and down by aircraft on the same day, which brings the writer, when he can, not to miss a note for all the gold in the world, nor in Austria nor in Sicily, nor elsewhere take the quality of musical art.
And Yes, to listen immediately, the “Dragonfly” Josef Strauss (1827-1870) can only Tickle curiously the ear of a Catania away…Known notes…to be verified, given the unexpected during playback mode.
Now watch the concert program in Vienna: polka-mazurka op. 204 “Die libelle”, called “French”, composed by Strauss in 1866. But, for the moment, the ideas were not very clear, albeit in designing the intent to pursue the matter as soon as possible.
Plane Vienna-Catania, Teatro Massimo “Vincenzo Bellini”: second new year's Eve 2016, all “Viennese” This, too, albeit in the homeland of the great Opera composer (1801-1835), as if you were still in Austria, as for melodic and harmonic climate.
And here the Carpenter music lover, coming up on bread and Swan, sitting in red velvet Chair “Home”, always that, growing up listening to Gianandrea Gavazzeni conducting divinely Bellini in the early 70 's, the years of imprinting, he finds himself the light: “But it was norm!”
Other than the viennese dragonfly, there was the beginning of the Duet Rule-Adalgisa in those notes so well calibrated, UPS and downs, sweets and modulated with delicate skill from Strauss. You can never go wrong!
Norm, composed in 1831, when Josef Strauss was still a child. Who knows what will have pushed to use the theme belliniano, over thirty years later. Perhaps some scholar has already noticed, but certain circumstances, situations, places, coincidences now, are really remarkable and exciting and worth at least note them here.
In short, we find ourselves a little bit of Bellini in Vienna, in a polka-mazurka by Strauss performed at new year's Eve 2016 and choice by Maestro Mariss Jansons became part of the magnificent viennese concert program…And there is reflected then in Catania, during another concert of music in Vienna, directed by a viennese, on the same day.
And while the concert in Catania unfolds, those notes of Vienna still echo in my ear and turn on: “Mira o Norma to your knees”Divine Bellini's brilliant idea: unique, recovered from the scene three of Act II of the Opera, with extreme grace, by Austrian composer in his polka-mazurka.
Welcome home, therefore, dragonfly/Norma!
Natalia Dantas ©dibartolocritic