Michael Sanderling at Radio-Philharmonie Saarbrucken

Saarbruecker Zeitung, June 10th, 2009

The last of eight SR studio concerts of the season with Deutsche Radio Philharmonie combines deepness and curiosities, the light and the heavy. Guest conductor Michael Sanderling, technically virtuous and extremely competent covered a broad range of styles with great affinity to the orchestra. "Dolly", piano pieces for children by Gabriel Fauré in symphonic appearance arranged by Henri Rabaud, was conducted by Sanderling without naïve squeamishness. He rather deployed the orchestral colors with a strong "stroke of the brush". Kurt Schwertsik is difficult to integrate within the Vienna music scene. His research of archaic music types resulted in 1975 in a concerto for alphorn and small orchestra (sound strings, wind section, percussion) ‘'In Keltischer Manier’’. It has many archaic elements: impure partial tones, natural intervals, the sound. (...). Mozart's Symphony in g-minor KV 550, in constant requisition, needs a fundamentally new perception. Sanderling had it. Energetic, dramatic, almost "gruff" in the first and the last movement, rubbing motifs in the Andante, angular with idyllic brightening in the trio, the Menuett. No elegant society music but tragic violence in the expression. Sanderling challenged the musicians, forced the wind section even the horns not really "saddle-fast" in the highs. Mozart thrillingly non-commercial. Bravo !
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