With Rafael Payare at the helm, the symphony breathes new life into favorites by Wagner, Liszt and Brahms
When asked in an interview what he might do if he weren’t a musician, conductor Rafael Payare suggested that he might have become an engineer. That seems about right. Engineers, after all, make things better. This is just what Payare and the San Diego Symphony accomplished Friday night at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido: They reinvigorated favorites by Wagner, Liszt and Brahms, in a concert overflowing with substance and smart details.
The technological advancements in 19th century piano manufacturing are similar to the innovations in the production of electric guitars in the last century: each makes possible bold, even disturbing, new sonic possibilities. Liszt’s concerto asks soloist and orchestra to make sense of the extremes of expressive material that switch, often in the middle of a phrase, between the syrupy and the brutal.
Early moments in the opening “Adagio Sostenuto,” focused on clarity of line and soft edges, undoing the grandiloquence and pomp that many famous conductors have adopted, which made more effective the grand cataclysm to which the movement builds.
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