The Sinfonia Christkoenig Orchestra impressed with a concert whose centerpiece was Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (1943). The evening gliding into the night, transientness and death, iridescent transcendence and cheerful vitality – all that was put into entrancingly beautiful music by Britten.
It was a moment of inner happiness when in the „Nocturne“ the charismatic tenor Jacques le Roux conjured up resounding horns and flying echos and when the excellent hornist Josef Reif commented on the tenor-voice with flexibility and a wonderful sound. And the string orchestra subtly added impulses and the echo of the nave resonated in a way so that the words “our echos roll from soul to soul“ gained an almost mystical confirmation.The soloists realised the esposed parts and subleties of the piece exceptionally masterfully. Mozart’s ”Paris“-Sinfony commenced with drums beating and trumpets sounding. From the first moment on the special quality of the winds was evident.
With Schubert’s Sinfony Nr. 4 (the „Tragic”) Matscheko chose a rarely played work, in whose “andante“ the disruptions typical of Schubert are already characteristic. Also this work was played intensely, inspiringly, cleverly and with high quality.