“I close my eyes and I am obviously listening, criticizing, remembering when I played this as a member, even imagining moments of the original instruments, that the horn with which I played did’t have valves, imagining how it would have been received in those times, but at remembering when I participated as an instrumentalist. Was it really true?…Now it sounds very difficult”.
Gordon Campbell
Mazatlán, Sinaloa, January 22, 2023.- Ars Sonui arrived from Aguascalientes with a recital of music for octet of strings and woodwind, violin, viola, cello, double bass, clarinet, bassoon and horn.
Casa Haas was impregnated with an emotional musical essence, in which time passed melodiously beautifully.
Shocking beginning, the ear connects to the skin, the audience closes their eyes, harmonizes the music with movements from left to right with their hands or their head, their eyes slide following the bow of the violin, musicians dressed in black that whiten the spirit giving peace.
Magdalena Hernández, violinist of the Ensemble expressed: “The work is magnificent, there are six movements that in reality one does not realize at what moment they happen, the piece is very beautiful from the beginning to the end, full of movements that are intertwined with each other. instruments of the ensemble.
Sublime notes float, navigate and reach each sense, some attendants embrace their companion, meastro Gordon Campbell lowers his eyelids, moves to places perhaps never revealed, perhaps never known, the low and high notes of the music placed in joy and freedom.
Maestro Campbell tells us the reason for these sensations:
“It is a personal satisfaction, almost a group like my children. Somehow I have had some of their initial training, it gives me enormous satisfaction and seeing the public’s reaction to the effort they make is wonderful”.
The musical execution is precise, it is happy, it is motivating, the public is eager to applaud, the composure is preserved, the smile and the astonishment cannot be hidden… They are revealed!
Víctor Mendoza, Bassoonist of the Ensemble tells us about it:
“That emotion is always very good, it always feeds back to the artists, to the ensemble.
As such, you feel the entire vibe of the public, but in-person concerts are great in that sense because everything is transmitted, both from the ensemble and from the public.
By protocol, this type of concert leads to seriousness, but in the end everything is transmitted, even if it is not in effusive applause as in other types of concerts, but that energy is always transmitted, I am satisfied”.
Daniel Mancilla, double bass player, took center stage and perceived the following:
“It’s a lot of introspection, it’s a one-hour piece, so it’s important to balance emotion with intellect so that everything progresses and is in order, because if it doesn’t overflow and you lose track of where you are, that’s why you have to balance.”
At the end of the event, the attendees congratulated Mr. Campbell, showing admiration and satisfaction for the program:
Octet in F major for strings and woodwind D. 803-op. post 166 by Franz Schubert
l.- Adagio-Allegro
ll.- Adagio
lll.-Allegro Vivace
IV.-Theme with Variations
V.-Menuetto (Allegro)
Vl.-Andante molto-Allegro
