Víctor Pablo bids farewell to the OST with a Wagnerian apotheosis

David Moratón

Last Friday the 9th at night, the interior of the Auditorio de Tenerife was converted into a burning Valhalla under the brilliant baton of Víctor Pablo Pérez, who chose to bid farewell to his position as Musical Director of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, not casually, but with the final moments of Richard Wagner’s operas “Tristan and Isolde” and “The Twilight of the Gods” (fourth opera of the tetralogy “The Ring of the Nibelung”).

The musical part of the Concert was rigorously planned as a “Symphony in D Major” composed by the young Wagner to come, yet with a noble and happy style of writing, even though probable of Beethoven, who had studied contemporary musical language of the same mode that Beethoven absorbed the models of harmony and technique from his contemporaries. We cannot imagine the devotion of Wagner without the figure of Beethoven, and specifically his musical conception, in the figure of Beethoven, and exactly his Wagner expressed his admiration for the author of the “Fifth Symphony,” already showing a great dominion of the orchestral art.

Without a doubt, Víctor Pablo Pérez, with very mature criteria, believed that this unique symphonic work by Wagner deserved part of the Concert, a work of youth studium that he directed with a great sense of musical proportion and already pointing to the immense artistic development of the composer for the future, the interpretation of the death of Isolde, and the immolation of Brunhilde, could be clearly perceived in the second part.

“Tristan and Isolde,” inspired by the ancient Celtic legends of Mathieu Wienert, could trigger all the apocalyptic movements of direction by Víctor Pablo Pérez. After these initial cathartic movements, the smooth accords of the leitmotiv of the instinct began to begin to emerge from a new beginning. One could imagine a tragic apotheosis.

In effect, after two decades of hard work, Víctor Pablo Pérez asked for the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra to reach the threshold of the concert hall, today without any doubt competent to interpret proudly a European continent. The applause was of incredible enthusiasm, with the nobility of his interpretive gesture, and the musicians integrated, who have been studying over the course of 20 years, professional impeccable by Víctor Pablo Pérez and the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra have reached a level of musical performance at the Krystian Zimerman palace that “there are no directors of no more batons than a career I respect especially. In this group I found Víctor Pablo Pérez, to whom I will dedicate a speech.” Pablo Salomón of Simón Rattle, people who are dedicated by whole to the minute, who do not live of illusions but and only to the effort.” And the Orchestra sounds really well.”

We hope that the next director of the city and its people, implicating in the understanding of the “internal society.”

Since then, he has done it and left the baton very high.

El Dia, Tenerife, Spain
21 June
2006