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Maestro Gustavo Dudamel will lead the world premiere of Cortejo (L.A. Phil commission with generous support from the Esa-Pekka Salonen Commissions Fund) by Andreia Pinto Correia for the Los Angeles Philharmonic (May 2-5, 2024) at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The program will feature pianist Maria João Pires performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 and Don Quixote by Strauss featuring LA Phil Principal Cello Robert deMaine, and Principal Viola Teng Li.
Os pássaros da noite (The Birds of Night), a New York Philharmonic Commission, conducted by maestro Gustavo Dudamel, will have its world premiere on March 17-20, 2022, at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall, New York City.
Dudamel Conducts Schumann: Part II
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R. SCHUMANN Symphony n.3, Rhenish
Andreia PINTO CORREIA Os pássaros da noite – The Birds of Night – (World Premiere – New York Philharmonic Commission)
R. SCHUMANN Symphony n.4
“Contemporary classical composition is going in so many different directions, that the surprise of JACK Quartet’s Friday night concert at 92Y was the uniformity of the musical language.
What was no surprise at all was JACK’s exceptional playing. The quartet is so fine and so well prepared that they never sound less than masterful. There remains something uncanny about hearing music that is supposed to be challenging to the musicians played with such precision and musicality that it gives the illusion of ease; that skill produces performances that are what the composers envisioned rather than misleading simulacrums.
JACK played three new or recent string quartets by Andreia Pinto Correia (who was in attendance), Sabrina Schroeder, and Zosha di Castri. These all led up to a modern masterpiece that seemed a progenitor of all the preceding music, Ligeti’s String Quartet No. 2.
Each movement was dedicated to one of the musicians—violinists Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman, violist John Pickford Richards, and cellist Jay Campbell—although none was favored with showy solo moments.
There were bits of extended technique sprinkled in but as a whole this was a statement of modernist language, with a diminished-key lyricism and compressed clusters of notes that went beyond dissonance. The restless sound was a descendant of post-WWI expressionism.
Near 100 years to the day after that war ended, the main of the classical tradition survives in this sound, ones that make tonality plastic and subject it to extremes of compression and expansion. The result in this piece was music that dazzled the mind and punched its way into the heart.”
The New York Classical Review , George Grella
Review: Columbus Symphony Orchestra’s works by 3 composers wows audience
By Jennifer Hambrick / For The Columbus Dispatch
Posted Apr 7, 2018
“A world premiere, a world-class soloist and one of the wildest symphonies the world has ever known blew the roof off the Ohio Theatre Friday night when Rossen Milanov led the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and violin soloist Jennifer Koh in works by Andreia Pinto Correia, Sibelius and Berlioz.
Commissioned by and dedicated to the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Pinto Correia’s Ciprés, inspired by poetry of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, was a radiant wash of color. The violins began with only the faintest thread of sound, growing almost imperceptibly. Out of this came a depiction of static water; eerie, towering cypresses; then poplars, then willows, emerging in bristling dissonances.”
Ciprés was commissioned by the League of American Orchestras and the Columbus Symphony with the generous support of the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation