Gustavo Lamas

Although his catalog lists just four symphonies, Brahms wrote several other works that come close to that genre: his First Piano Concerto was indeed planned as a symphony, and the Second (which is in four movements) has been called a symphony with piano obbligato. Although the Second and Third Symphonies were introduced in Vienna, Brahms decided to give his Fourth Symphony an outof- town tryout.

Color is content in Debussy’s tone poem cum symphony and Stravinsky’s groundbreaking ballet. Not the only content, to be sure, but an important and distinctive element.

John Adams' The Gospel According to the Other Mary, first performed in 2012 in Los Angeles, is something of an expansion on the composer's El Niño, a Passion story adorned with a variety of contemporary themes and musical materials. Like the earlier work, it features a libretto by longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars, and it may be sung on-stage as an oratorio or presented as an opera. Mary Magdalene is indeed a central figure in the work, but actually it is more than the trick perspective the title might imply; as with El Niño Sellars incorporates such devices as set pieces featuring poetry by other writers (this time poet Louise Erdrich plays the central role).

This 2017 concert, on the market by the end of the second week in January, marked the first Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert led by the sensational Venezuelan-American conductor Gustavo Dudamel. Those hoping, or fearing, that he would shake up the repertory of this Vienna institution, are given little material to work with; the program follows the time-honored pattern, with the Strauss family in the foremost position and The Beautiful Blue Danube in its proper place in the encores.

Recorded live in Los Angeles at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2008, Gustavo Dudamel brings new life to Berlioz's eternal classic the Symphonie fantastique as he leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic on this highly-praised performance. Includes a brief pre-concert lecture by the conductor.

La Germania è da sempre un enigma di non facile interpretazione per gli altri popoli, nel bene e nel male. Nell'epoca di Angela Merkel, all'ammirazione per la "locomotiva d'Europa", fulcro del processo di integrazione continentale, è subentrato il timore per una potenza in grado di tenere sotto scacco le altre economie europee. Per districare i nodi del presente e guardare con consapevolezza ai traumi del passato, Gustavo Corni propone di rileggere la storia tedesca in un'ottica di lungo periodo. Il percorso che si apre con i brillanti successi politico-diplomatici di Otto von Bismarck e giunge fino alla caduta del muro di Berlino, alla riunificazione gestita da Helmut Kohl e alle sfide del presente è straordinario e drammatico al punto che si è parlato di un sonderweg, una "via peculiare"…