Pedro-Pablo Prudencio and Gustavo Miranda, Protagonists of a Great Concert with the Philharmonic Orchestra

A great night at Teatro Municipal for the conductor and the pianist together with the Philharmonic Orchestra, with a program of works by Brahms and Richard Strauss which achieved an incredible musical unity.

Symphonic concerts often tend to seek a certain coherence to their programs. With that aim, they sometimes group together works that come from diverse origins.

This coherence was achieved on Friday, the 26th, and Saturday, the 27th, of April during this latest installment of the 2024 Concert Season at Teatro Municipal of Santiago.

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Gustavo Miranda Dazzles with Brahms

The Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 by Johannes Brahms originally premiered in 1859 and it is the first great orchestral creation of the German composer.

At the beginning, this project by Brahms was a sonata for two pianos, later turning into a symphony, until it became the piece that we know today.

The one chosen to interpret the piece this time at the Municipal was the young pianist, Gustavo Miranda, whom in December of last year premiered the relevant piece "The People United Will Never Be Defeated" by Frederic Rzewski before a large audience, demonstrating great versatility.

The way in which Miranda faces this piece by Brahms is characterized by forcefulness and by precision.

The vigorous start to the first movement gives way to a kind of quiet obstinacy, as if the melody were a secret that is revealed little by little.

In the third movement comes the pyrotechnic virtuosity of the ending, leading the audience to greet his great performance with warm applause.

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That is one of the many merits of Brahms' writing, which is confirmed by the performance offered by the musicians at the Municipal Theater of Santiago.

As an encore, Gustavo Miranda delights the audience with the well-known song "My favorite things", from the film "The Sound of Music", composed by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II in the arrangement by Stephen Hough.

This has undoubtedly been an evening of consecration for the pianist Gustavo Miranda (we hope to see him more frequently on our main stages) and in which it has been possible to confirm the artistic maturity of the director Pedro-Pablo Prudencio, who, together with the talented members of the the orchestra, is particularly at home in this repertoire.