Piano Concerto No. 1 - Juan María Solare - score follower
3 videos • 81 views • by Juan Maria Solare Piano Concerto No. 1 - Juan María Solare - score follower with virtual instruments. Aesthetic reflections on the piano concerto During classicism and romanticism, a concerto was often conceived as a confrontation between a soloist, symbolising the individual, and the orchestra, representing society. Seen in this way, a concert reflects a value system that pits the individual against the group and poses a struggle of "I against you". Surely this vehemence could be explained in a Beethovenian era when the concepts of human rights and individual freedom were fragile ideals. However, it is a different scale of values that my piano concerto tries to reflect: the idea of cooperation, of teamwork and of an orchestra as a living organism whose "organs" are not superior to one another, more vital than others, but fulfil different functions, qualitatively speaking. Every soloist plays a leading role, but this does not imply either subordination to the rest or denigration or subjugation of the rest. The fact that the soloist is sometimes in the foreground does not imply a "victory" over the others. The very concept of "victory" is meaningless here. At times, the soloist will fulfil a leadership role, at others he or she will underpin from passivity what is happening in the orchestra, intentionally from the shadows, as a grey eminence. And at other times - why not - he will question what the majority is doing. It is not a rough relationship of "me against you", but there is also a "we". Juan María Solare