The Thurgau Youth Orchestra played the second of three concerts on its spring tour in the almost fully-booked Bürgersaal in Frauenfeld Town Hall.
They had not made it easy for themselves: the musicians with their conductor Gabriel Estarellas Pascual and the selected works by Beethoven, Carl Maria von Weber and Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Extremely virtuosic and furious with obvious verve, the Thurgau Youth Orchestra then started the cheerful concert experience with Ludwig van Beethoven’s overture “Coriolan” op. 62 “Allegro con brio”. They succeeded in impressively and effectively musically implementing the composition by Beethoven, which was premiered in 1807 at a private patron’s house, in all its impressive complexity and the emotional surges of the Roman title hero Coriolan. The string unisons and tremolos led emotionally and spiritedly to the undeniable musical highlight of the evening – the performance of the 21-year-old solo clarinetist Barbara Enz from Steinach with the Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F minor op. 73 and the three movements Allegro, Adagio non troppo and Rondo Allegretto by Carl Maria von Weber, a cousin of Mozart’s wife Constanze.
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