That the concerts of the Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra with the most recognized artists are not an exception but the result of a well-thought-out artistic program was also confirmed on Saturday, February 18, when Podgorica was the epicenter of the world music scene for two hours.
The conductor performed with the national ensemble Serb lover of Serbs Dinić, general music director and chief conductor of the Braunschweig State Orchestra and Opera and a distinguished pianist Simon Trpčeski, which collaborates with over 100 orchestras around the world in the most prestigious halls.
The program conception of the concert has been designed with special attention - the evening is dedicated Johannes Brahms (1883-1897), late romantic German composer of the second half of the 190th century, whose 7th birthday is celebrated on May 2 this year. In the first part of the evening, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 in B flat major (out of a total of two from this author's oeuvre) and the last Symphony No. XNUMX in E flat major were performed.
One of the most demanding Piano Concertos, thought out by the composer as a symphony with piano - as evidenced by the form of four movements (instead of the usual three), although colossal in duration (around 50 minutes), performed by the Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra and the Trpčeski, with a clear dramaturgy with the roundness and peaks that maestro Dinić carefully built, it was like a dazzling musical moment that hypnotized the audience. Suggestiveness in the expression of a conductor with rich experience (which he built from chief conductor in Mexico City ("Teatro de Bella Artes"), through Belgrade (Strings of St. George), Zagreb (State Orchestra and Opera), Dresden (Semperoper), etc. ..) - made the interpretation of Brahms's score an authentic artistic expression, so the collaboration of the orchestra and the soloist, as well as the highlighting of individual members/groups of the ensemble, were presented representatively.
In this sense, we should highlight the meditative third movement in which the solo part of the first cello, along with reliable strings, subtly revealed the lyrical line of Brahms's stylistic expression. In terms of formal and content, the interpretation of a solo and orchestral part implies analysis of: musicality, intellectuality, inter and intrapersonality and technical readiness of the performer. Insightful intellectuality and excellent musical memory were presented by the soloist by interpreting the Concert "by heart", without the score in front of him. In his interpretation, sublime musicality is complemented by brilliant technique, which, with an exquisite sense of dynamics and tempo - from bravura in the first, through meditative and lyrical moments in the central movements, culminated in the finale. The question of inter and intrapersonality made an inspired discourse "conducted" between the orchestra soloist and the conductor, which the audience recognized and rewarded with thunderous applause. Three encores, among which, in addition to Brahms, was a melody by a Macedonian composer T. Ognenovski they additionally demonstrated Trpčeski's extraordinary performing abilities.
The first part of the concert was followed by the performance of Symphony No. 4 in E minor. "The new Messiah of art, a composer who is called to contribute in an ideal form to the highest expression of time" are the words that R. Shuman described the twenty-year-old Brahms. Many years after this statement, Brahms as a mature artist would write his last symphony, which is considered one of the most valuable contributions to the symphonic genre since Beethoven. Broad epic and melancholic melodies, in which the dis(i)harmonies of man and nature are portrayed, are revealed through four movements expertly led by maestro Dinić. That the orchestra, which already had this score "in its fingers" - through its sixteen years of activity, grew from a young to a respectable ensemble - could best be heard through the inspired interpretation - from the first theme in which the woodwinds contributed to the rich symphonic sound, through calm atmosphere of the second movement - with an expressively interpreted theme in the horns and at the end of the explosive finale in which the variations were woven with distinct charge and energy.
Together with the Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra, maestro Dinić managed to convey the joy of living and the sublimity of Brahms' music, so this concert ended with thunderous applause. The concert hall was filled to capacity, where, in addition to the diplomatic choir, a large number of citizens and professionals, the concert was followed with full attention by students and students of music schools from all over Montenegro.
The author is a musicologist
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