PROGRAM
브리튼 : 심플 심포니
시벨리우스 : 바이올린 협주곡
슈베르트 : 교향곡 9번(더 그레이트)
맨체스터 유나이티드-맨체스터 시티의 관계처럼 동향의 라이벌 악단, 할레 오케스트라와의 끊임없는 경쟁을 통해 ‘클래식 강국’ 영국 시장에서 굴지의 명문 오케스트라로 우뚝 솟은 BBC 필하모닉의 7년 만의 두 번째 내한공연(2008년 잔안드레아 노제다)이다. 2000년대 들어, 악단의 연주력을 비약적으로 발전시킨 전임 감독 노제다의 강력한 카리스마에 이어 2011년부터 악단 음악감독을 맡아 오케스트라에 놀랍도록 다채로운 라틴 컬러를 입히고 있는 스페인의 마에스트로 후안호 메나의 한국 데뷔이다.
빌바오 심포니 음악감독 시절부터 요즘의 여타 오케스트라에서는 감지하기 어려운 화려한 색채로 무명 오케스트라를 일약 변방의 다크호스로 주목 받게 한 메나는 오케스트라 안에 숨겨진 기능을 살려내 작품에 새로운 에너지를 불어넣는 감각적인 지휘로 특히 보스턴 심포니, 뉴욕 필하모닉 등 미국 메이저 오케스트라에서 호평 받고 있다. 라파엘 프뤼벡 데 부르고스의 타계 이후 소리에 영혼을 불어넣는 스페인 지휘자가 귀한 시대에 숨겨진 거목이 드디어 한국 팬과 만난다. 소리의 아름다움과 볼륨의 유동성이 한꺼번에 굽이치는 대작, 슈베르트 교향곡 9번이 준비됐다.
협연에는 1983년 서방 세계 망명 직후부터 한국을 꾸준하게 찾아온 빅토리아 뮬로바가 자신의 일곱 번째 내한 공연에서 개인적으로 특별한 레퍼토리인 시벨리우스 협주곡을 연주한다. 뮬로바는 1980년 시벨리우스 콩쿠르과 1982년 차이콥스키 콩쿠르에서 우승하면서 세계에 알려졌고 서방으로 망명해서 필립스 레이블(세이지 오자와/보스턴 심포니)에서 처음 녹음할 때 자신이 직접 고른 곡도 시벨리우스와 차이콥스키였다. 30년 전, 러시안 스쿨의 대표적인 아이콘으로 주목받던 시절의 시벨리우스와 비교해, 세월의 풍화를 온 몸으로 견뎌내고 어느덧 50대 중반에 이른 뮬로바가 선보일 시벨리우스는 어떤 모습일지, 맨체스터의 문화적 아이콘 BBC 필하모닉이 한국 클래식팬과의 귀중한 만남을 고대하고 있다.
[PROGRAM]
Britten Simple Symphony, Sibelius Violin Concerto, Schubert Symphony No. 9
About the Conductor | Juanjo Mena
Juanjo Mena is one of Spain’s most highly regarded conductors. He is currently Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, and he works regularly with all the major orchestras in his home country. He has been Artistic Director of the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, Chief Guest Conductor of the Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and Principal Guest Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. He has worked with many prestigious orchestras such as the Oslo Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, Milan,Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Turin, Munchner Rundfunk Orchester, Dresden Philharmonic, Goteborg Symphoniker, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony Orchestra and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra.
His future highlights include debuts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal and the Nash Ensemble, etc. He recently led the BBC Philharmonic on tours of Europe and Spain, including performances in Cologne, Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna and Madrid, and performs with them every year at the BBC Proms in London. He has made several recordings with the BBC Philharmonic, including a disc of works by Manuel de Falla, which was a BBC Music Magazine Recording of the Month, Gabriel Pierne, which was a Gramophone Editor’s Choice, and recent releases of music by Montsalvatge, Weber and Turina which have gained excellent reviews from the specialist music press. He has also recorded a collection of Basque symphonic music with the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra for Naxos, and a critically acclaimed rendering of Messiaen’s Turangalila Symphony for Hyperion with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.
About the Orchestra | BBC Philharmonic
The BBC Philharmonic is one of the five radio orchestras maintained by the British Broadcasting Corporation. As one of the BBC’s six performing groups, the BBC Philharmonic gives over a hundred concerts a year at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall and welcomes audiences in its recording studio at MediaCityUK. The orchestra also appears annually at the BBC Proms, and plays a key role in the BBC’s national Ten Pieces programme, part of the recently announced BBC Music plan to bring classical music to a generation of primary school age children.
Yan Pascal Tortelier was principal conductor of the orchestra from 1992 to 2002, and Gianandrea Noseda took over the baton in 2002. Noseda concluded his tenure as chief conductor in 2011, gaining the title of conductor laureate along with Tortelier. In July 2010, the orchestra announced the appointment of Juanjo Mena with an initial contract of three years.
Since September 2007, the BBC philharmonic has been in a major partnership with Salford City Council, enabling the Orchestra to build active links with Salford and its communities. In 2011, the BBC Philharmonic moved to their new dedicated studio at Media City, Salford Quays.
About the Soloist | Viktoria Mullova
Viktoria Mullova studied at the Central Music School of Moscow and the Moscow Conservatoire. Her extraordinary talent captured international attention when she won first prize at the 1980 Sibelius Competition in Helsinki and the Gold Medal at the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1982 which was followed, in 1983, by her dramatic and much publicized defection to the West. She has since appeared with most of the world’s greatest orchestras and conductors and at the major international festivals. She is now known the world over as a violinist of exceptional versatility and musical integrity, as her musical scope spans from baroque and classical right up to the most contemporary and experimental music.
Her ventures into creative contemporary music started in 2000 with her album “Through the Looking Glass” in which she played world, jazz and pop music arranged for her by Matthew Barley. Her most recent project, “Stradivarius in Rio” is inspired by her love of Brazilian songs by composers such as Antonio Carlos Jobin, Caetano Veloso and Claudio Nucci. As well as her own projects, she has also commissioned works from young composers such as Fraser Trainer, Thomas Larcher and Dai Fujikura.
Highlights of her 14/15 season include concerts with the Halle, Philharmonia Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Orchestre National de France and a tour with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment to New York and the UK. Viktoria will also give duo recitals with Katia Labeque throughout Europe and South America.
