Sinfónica de la Juventud Venezolana Simón Bolívar
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Diego Matheuz
conductor
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Kolja Blacher
violin
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93
History repeats itself after all. Only a few years after Gustavo Dudamel launched his stunning world-wide career another musician from the ranks of the Simón Bolívar Symphony followed suit: Diego Matheuz. Born in 1984, the young Venezuelan received his seal of commendation from Claudio Abbado when the maestro unexpectedly handed him the baton during a rehearsal of Tchaikovsky's Fourth and asked him to continue. Matheuz became Abbado's assistant. Now he creates a sensation whenever he steps up to the conductor's rostrum of a famous orchestra. At LUCERNE FESTIVAL he took over the concert of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia at short notice in September 2009: 'His talent and personality immediately held the audience spellbound', wrote 'La Repubblica': 'He's good-looking and radiates vitality, enthusiasm and honesty. His gestural language is direct, open and completely devoid of self-indulgence. He conducted Tchaikovsky's Fifth with clarity and truthfulness without falling into the traps set everywhere by the composer.'