(La Sinfonía de Minería announces the programming of its 2024 Summer Season)
Imagine celebrating the summer with the most prestigious Mexican orchestra in the world performing for you 250 years of masterpieces: from Haydn to Paquito D'Rivera, including Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, Debussy and Revueltas.
Internationally renowned soloists such as Augustin Hadelich, Anne-Marie McDermott and Pacho Flores, under the baton of Grammy winner Carlos Miguel Prieto.
Sinfónica de Minería, music that transforms lives.
Excellent music has the power to transform our lives. That is the essence of the Minería Symphony's Summer Season 2024: to offer you concerts you will never forget.
It is a futile effort to find a conceptual connection between the eight programs and the gala. But their construction does share a common intention: to travel through more than 250 years of musical history through foundational works, those whose innovative languages transformed the art of articulating sounds.
During 46 years of commitment to musical excellence, the Sinfónica de Minería has not only obtained Grammys and international prestige, but also the maturity, daring and solvency to offer an ambitious program that proposes a fascinating journey through almost three centuries of masterpieces: from Haydn to Paquito D'Rivera, passing through Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, Debussy and Revueltas.
The season opens with the world premiere (Mining Commission) of Canto de Macario by Mexican composer Antonio Juan-Marcos (1979), whose arid Rulfian poetics is contrasted with that spectacular aquatic paradigm of impressionist vocation that is La mer, in which Claude Debussy (1862-1918) uses the orchestra to show the brightness, reflections and chiaroscuro of the sea through sound. They will also sound, during this first program, the shocking and sinister La valse by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) and Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini by Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943) with the soloist participation of the virtuoso pianist Lilya Zilberstein.
The second program, conducted by the guest conductor of José Luis Gómez Ríos, is framed within Classicism, a period characterized because music was at the service of reason (the clarity of sound as a reflection of the Enlightenment), begins with a rescue: the beautiful Symphony in C major by the Austrian composer Marianne Martinez (1744-1812), followed by the Concerto for cello and orchestra No. 2 (with virtuoso cellist Inbal Segev) by her contemporary and admirer: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). (1732-1809). To culminate, the majestic and bubbling Symphony No. 39 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791).
Gabriela Ortiz (1964), the Mexican composer who never ceases to astonish the world, begins the third program with her work Tzam, dedicated to Mario Lavista (1943-2021), where she moves away from the rhythmic and timbral exuberance that characterizes her to recreate the intimate and delicate sound world of her teacher and friend. Then, violinist Augustin Hadelich, a virtuoso already a regular in our orchestra, tackles the demanding solo part of the intense Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975). To close, the memorable and always demanding Symphony No. 2 by Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), as a sample of the already legendary attraction of Carlos Miguel Prieto for Finnish music.
The fourth program begins with a premiere in Mexico: the Concerto for alto saxophone and orchestra by John Adams (1947) with the participation of the virtuoso saxophonist Timothy McAllister, for whom the soloist part was expressly written. And as a closing, one of the most profound and demanding symphonies in history: the Eighth by Anton Bruckner (1824-1896), a composer who, unlike Sibelius, represents a novelty in Carlos Miguel Prieto's repertoire.
The Sinfónica de Minería is recording the complete orchestral works of Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940) and will perform Itinerarios (as a tribute to the Spanish exile in Mexico after the civil war) to start the fifth program, which is complemented with Fandangofor violin and orchestra, by Arturo Márquez (1950) with the soloist participation of the virtuoso violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, and one of the summits of musical Romanticism: the cyclical and introspective Symphony No. 3 by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897).
The sixth program opens with a composer seldom heard in Mexico: Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) and his cryptic Symphonic Metamorphoses on themes by Carl Maria von Weber. It is followed by the hypnotic and joyful Venezuelan Concerto by Paquito D'Rivera (1948), whose recording with the Sinfónica de Minería won a Latin Grammy Latin Grammy. And it culminates with one of the great masterpieces of the 20th century: the polychromatic and nocturnal Concerto for Orchestra by Béla Bartók (1881-1945).
To continue spreading little-known masterpieces by Silvestre Revueltas, the seventh program opens with the festive and sarcastic Alcancías and continues with Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), the ideal piece to perceive the extraordinary musical chemistry established by virtuoso pianist Anne-Marie McDermott and the Sinfónica de Minería. The program ends with the mystical and definitive symphonic poem Thus Spake Zarathustra by Richard Strauss (1864-1949).
The virtuoso violinist Vadim Gluzman returns to perform, during the eighth program, the soloist part of the complex and demanding Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 by Max Bruch (1838-1920). This will be followed by Symphony No. 7, The Song of the Nightby Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), a masterpiece of romantic symphonism whose fascinating contrasts make it a disconcerting sound experience for its richness of nuances and endless findings.
For the gala, the atmosphere takes on a medieval influence with The Merry Pranks of Till Eulenspiegel, in which Richard Strauss describes episodes in the life of a witty and revolutionary ancient hero. And as a grand finale, Carmina Burana by Carl Orff (1895-1982), a work as addictive as it is epic, traversed by mystery, in which itinerant monks devoted to pleasures sing about wine, nature and carnal love. A work that under the baton of Carlos Miguel Prieto and the Sinfónica de Minería acquires a dizzying and moving dimension.
This is the program of our Summer Season 2024, whose invitation is clear: enjoy the summer with the most prestigious Mexican orchestra in the world performing for you 250 years of masterpieces. Sinfónica de Minería, music of excellence that transforms lives.
