Concerto di Helmuth Rilling 
last concert at the Green is back
Helmuth Rilling with Schubert and Mendelssohn.
of Schubert and performed the Mahler transcription made by the Quartet "Der Tod und das Mädchen "(Death and the Maiden) by Schubert (D810) of 1824. The quartet derives its title from a song written in February 1817 by one single title. One lied to a page where a dialogue takes place between a girl and death, which in German is masculine. The girl calls for death to leave because he is still young and death replied
Give me your hand, beautiful and charming creature
friend and have not come to punish you.
Courage, not bad ,
sleep softly in my arms. The un'introzione has lied to the piano that represents the arrival on the scene of death. This is followed by the reaction of the girl, followed by replication of death, the same music introduction leads to the conclusion that the song in an atmosphere of stillness. Just this
music by Schubert is used as the theme for the second movement of the quartet, a theme that is developed in a series of changes which ranges from the elegiac tone and the dramatic resignation to the chamber.
around this song, Schubert builds other movements of the quartet composing a dramatic first movement and contrasted that closes troubled. The joke has a first part and a very rhythmic trio idyllic, and in Mahler's transcription became almost a dialogue between birds in a forest. The finish is a hell of tarantella, a true dance of death that overwhelms everything.
transcription of Mahler prevede la divisione dei violini e l'uso dei sordini per creare effetti particolari nel secondo movimento. I contrabbassi sono usati a scopo coloristico per rafforzare alcuni effetti. Impressionante la parte finale del primo movimento, con un colore livido carico d'angoscia.
Di Mendelssohn è stata eseguita, in apertura, l'overture di Athalie, da Racine, e in chiusura la sinfonia Italiana. Questa strana sinfonia che inizia in la maggiore e termina in la minore, che nel catalogo è la numero 4, in realtà è la terza e non fu mai pubblicata vivo Mendelssohn che, dopo la prima esecuzione londinese del 13 maggio 1833, la revisionò nel 1834 e non la considerò mai del tutto terminata. Normalmente si esegue la versione standard che corrisponde to that of the first performance of 1833, published by Breitkopf under the complete works. In 2004 he performed with the Verdi Hogwood version corresponding to the revised version by Mendelssohn and remained unpublished until 1980. There is one beautiful performance record made by Oleg Caetani, who ran to buy after listening to the concert because the revised version I liked very much. Among the various editions of standards, however, Toscanini put on all that is running the third movement "Con moto moderato" how best can not be strictly according to the differences between bound and unbound phrasing to great music teacher.
Rilling conducted the standard heading with great accuracy and great elegance, ma anche con vigore.
Ottima prova dell'orchestra chiamata ad una prova impegnativa sia in Schubert sia in Mendelssohn.
