A Midsummer Night time’s Dream – Muricas News

Kristian Järvi and his Baltic Sea Philharmonic couldn't have timed their Berlin visitor efficiency extra appropriately: on Wednesday, on the shortest evening of the 12 months, they're celebrating the “Midnight Solar”. The conventional corridor mild is switched off, colourful spotlights create a dim atmosphere – one thing like what you possibly can expertise in Nordic spheres when it doesn’t get darkish anymore in summer time.

This play with the magical-mythical environment is made doable as a result of the younger musicians from the ten nations bordering the Baltic Sea play all of the works by coronary heart and due to this fact don't want an illuminated music stand. Because it was based in 2008, conductor Kristian Järvi has constantly pushed forward together with his thought of ​​presenting classical music in a extra sensual manner than common with this venture orchestra.

Uninterrupted stream of sound

This additionally consists of his playlist dramaturgy: there isn't any live performance break, all items merge seamlessly into each other as a stylistically erratic music stream. Sensible works, resembling Sibelius’s 2nd symphony and Stravinsky’s “Firebird” ballet music, are adopted by melancholic, meditative works by Arvo Pärt, compositions by the conductor – and in addition works written by the members of the orchestra.

As a result of at its core, this extraordinary venture is above all for the contributors. Järvi needs to make music with them in a manner the place everybody actually communicates with everybody – and he needs to encourage them to specific their creativity to the fullest, to become advanced musical personalities.

The Philharmonie viewers might initially solely take part on this communal expertise by listening. Within the block of encores, nonetheless, Järvi lastly entails everybody current, inviting them to rhythmically clap and stamp their ft, and later even to sing and dance alongside. Whereby he himself has probably the most enjoyable, whizzing throughout the stage as if unleashed, gesticulating as a lot as doable, shouting “We're all magicians!” into the microphone. A primal power, half guru, half goblin.

And it really works: the corridor goes into collective ecstasy, the Midsummer Night time’s Dream has turn out to be a basic occasion.