A classic music returns, the Noon Concerts

A good news for music lovers. A cycle returns to make history in the city of Buenos Aires. The noon concerts, organized by the Argentine Mozarteum.

Everything started in March 1952 when a group led by teachers Mariano Drago and Erwin Leuchter, the musicologist and critic Jorge D’Urbano, the composer and musicologist Juan Pedro Franze, the violinist Carlos Pessina and the composer Carlos Suffern presented the project for the foundation in the Mozarteum of Salzburg of the Argentine Mozarteum.

The primary purpose of the institution, as read on its official website, is to hold chamber, orchestral and choral music concerts, intended to propagate the work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartwith more emphasis on his unknown creations or not yet released in Argentina.

The pioneers

Jeannette Arata de Erize, along with other members of the institution, have opened the doors of their homes to musicians and a growing number of guests in the first four seasons of the brand new Mozarteum Argentino. From that moment on, Arata de Erize decided to dedicate his life to the activity.

A major step for the growth of the institution took place in the concerts moved into the public sphere in 1956.

The National Museum of Decorative Art, the Isaac Fernández Blanco Hispanic-American Art Museum and the National Museum of Fine Arts were the first spaces to host concerts by well-known national and international figures such as Friedrich Gulda, Linda Rautenstrauch, Henryk Szeryng, Carlos Pessina, the Chigiano Quintet, Ljerko Spiller, Peter Lukas Graf, among many others.

The motivation of arrange concerts at noon, free and for all spectatorsbegan nine years after the establishment of the institution.

The program for return

Two Swiss performers, violinist Heidi Schmid and pianist Joseph-Maurice Weder, will open the 61st Midday Concert Season (with fourteen scheduled dates), on Wednesday, April 27, at 2:00 p.m.in CCK.

The program includes the Third Sonata for violin and piano by Edvard Grieg and the Sonata in A major by César Franck, and is complemented by two miniatures by Swiss composers, La minute exquise by Richard Dubugnon and Adagio … Von Einem Ganz Sonderbaren Goût de Roland Moser.

In Columbus also

Beyond the return of this free cycle, the Argentine Mozarteum will celebrate its 70th anniversary with more concerts.

After the conflict forced by the pandemic, he will present a season of seven concerts at the Teatro Colón. The opening, on May 7, is the local debut of the Polish tenor Piotr Beczala; Along with pianist Camillo Radicke, the singer will perform a selection of opera aria and songs.

Also in May, the Jerusalem Chamber Ensemble will return, with piano and direction by Elena Bashkirova, along with Pablo Barragán (clarinet), Mihaela Martin (violin), Adrien la Marca (viola) and Ivan Karizna cello (cello). Another outstanding pianist of our time, Nikolay Lugansky, will perform in June with the Orchester Philharmonique Royal de Liège performed by Gergely Madaras.

In August, the Mozarteum proposed the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. Danielle Akta will perform Haydn’s first cello concerto, in a program complemented by works by Paul Ben-Haim and Tchaikovsky. On the podium was Argentine Yeruham Scharovsky. Nelson Goerner, the pianist from Sampedra who lives in Switzerland, will return to the country in September, along with works by Chopin, Debussy and Albéniz.

Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen will join the season on October 17, along with German violinist Christian Tetzlaff.

The closing of the season will be directed by Dutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey, who will perform on the same night’s performance of six suites for Johann Sebastian Bach’s solo cello, for which he is a reference interpreter.

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