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# Writing

Music criticism and essays. Synaesthesia means I hear colour and see sound, which is how I came to write about music before making it visible.

- [![Mist and Fire](https://davidmoraton.com/works/images/MUSIC_0012.jpg)<h2>Mist and Fire</h2>

  null · El Dia, Tenerife, Spain

  Last January 31, the second work premiered at the 23rd Festival of Music of the Canary Islands, called "Nebula", by the Canarian composer Manuel Ruiz. Although the existing ones seemed little sincere.](https://davidmoraton.com/writing/music-0012)
- [![Multicoloured Counterpoint](https://davidmoraton.com/works/images/MUSIC_0020.jpg)<h2>Multicoloured Counterpoint</h2>

  2007-03-26 · El Dia, Tenerife, Spain

  Program no. 10 of the 2006-2007 Season of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, performed on March 23rd, has been without doubt one of the most interesting and intelligent that has been planned so far.](https://davidmoraton.com/writing/music-0020)
- [![Montserrat Caballe in Tenerife](https://davidmoraton.com/works/images/MUSIC_0019.jpg)<h2>Montserrat Caballe in Tenerife</h2>

  2007-03-13 · El Dia, Tenerife, Spain

  "Guapa!", someone shouted just when Montserrat Caballé came out onto the stage of the Teobaldo Power Auditorium in La Orotava, on the past March 10th, within the 23rd Multimedia Festival of Tenerife.](https://davidmoraton.com/writing/music-0019)
- [![Bruckners Fifth](https://davidmoraton.com/works/images/MUSIC_0018.jpg)<h2>Bruckners Fifth</h2>

  2007-03-10 · El Dia, Tenerife, Spain

  With Eliahu Inbal as conductor, the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra performed a more than acceptable symphonic version of this great symphonic monument.](https://davidmoraton.com/writing/music-0018)
- [![Unforgettable Farewell from the 23rd Festival of Music of the Canary Islands with the Berlin Philharmonic](https://davidmoraton.com/works/images/MUSIC_0017.jpg)<h2>Unforgettable Farewell from the 23rd Festival of Music of the Canary Islands with the Berlin Philharmonic</h2>

  2007-03-07 · El Dia, Tenerife, Spain

  He is not the best conductor, but he is in front of the best orchestra on the planet.](https://davidmoraton.com/writing/music-0017)
- [![Death of Love](https://davidmoraton.com/works/images/MUSIC_0015.jpg)<h2>Death of Love</h2>

  2007-02-14 · El Dia, Tenerife, Spain

  Immense musical experience of almost 5 hours in the Auditorium with "Tristan and Isolde" by Wagner Known since the description of the opera "Tristan and Isolde" prelude by Friedrich Nietzsche and the commotion it has nev…](https://davidmoraton.com/writing/music-0015)
- [![Music and Sentiment](https://davidmoraton.com/works/images/MUSIC_0016.jpg)<h2>Music and Sentiment</h2>

  2007-02-14 · El Dia, Tenerife, Spain

  Semyon Bychkov and the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne reached the heart of the audience with Rachmaninoff Often it happens that certain experiences that have marked our lives are powerfully linked to the discovery of oth…](https://davidmoraton.com/writing/music-0016)
- [![Romantic Sentiment and Symphonic Gigantism](https://davidmoraton.com/works/images/MUSIC_0014.jpg)<h2>Romantic Sentiment and Symphonic Gigantism</h2>

  2007-02-06 · El Dia, Tenerife, Spain

  A programmatic approach to the theme of passionate love is being initiated within the 23rd Festival of Music of the Canary Islands.](https://davidmoraton.com/writing/music-0014)
- [![Thus Spoke Zarathustra](https://davidmoraton.com/works/images/MUSIC_0013.jpg)<h2>Thus Spoke Zarathustra</h2>

  2007-02-03 · El Dia, Tenerife, Spain

  "When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his homeland and the lake of his homeland and went to the mountains. There he enjoyed his spirit and his solitude, and for ten years did not tire of it.](https://davidmoraton.com/writing/music-0013)
- [![Ellegance, Pathetism and Midnight Sun](https://davidmoraton.com/works/images/MUSIC_0011.jpg)<h2>Ellegance, Pathetism and Midnight Sun</h2>

  2007-01-26 · El Dia, Tenerife,Spain

  It is always an important event, but I not only enrich the panorama of contemporary music, but also open a new vision with which to shape and understand the essence of our "Zeit-geist".](https://davidmoraton.com/writing/music-0011)
- [![Beethoven, Chopin, Ravel, Nose and the Public](https://davidmoraton.com/works/images/MUSIC_0010.jpg)<h2>Beethoven, Chopin, Ravel, Nose and the Public</h2>

  2007-01-18 · El Dia, Tenerife, Spain

  I always try to be conscious, to be deeply alert to everything that happens around me. In theater, especially, I try to get the most out of the experience and make it unforgettable.](https://davidmoraton.com/writing/music-0010)
- [![A Mantra of Polychoral Sound](https://davidmoraton.com/works/images/MUSIC_0009.jpg)<h2>A Mantra of Polychoral Sound</h2>

  2007-01-17 · El Dia, Tenerife, Spain

  The sound experience offered by the resident quintet vocal "Odhecaton" last Friday February 15 at the Guiniguada Theater, constituted by five singers and motets of polychoral late-renaissance music of the sixteenth and s…](https://davidmoraton.com/writing/music-0009)
- [![Ruby Coloured Voice](https://davidmoraton.com/works/images/MUSIC_0008.jpg)<h2>Ruby Coloured Voice</h2>

  2007-01-14 · El Dia, Tenerife, Spain

  The evening that the XXIII Festival of Music of the Canary Islands offered us on February 12 at the Auditorium distanced us from solemnity and provided us with weeks of superior entertainment, with a quite complete and f…](https://davidmoraton.com/writing/music-0008)
- [![Vitalism Against Rationality](https://davidmoraton.com/works/images/MUSIC_0007.jpg)<h2>Vitalism Against Rationality</h2>

  2007-01-12 · El Dia, Tenerife, Spain

  In contrast with the brilliant version that the Thielemann of the Gran Canaria offered of Anton Bruckner's and last January 9th at the Auditorium, the usual offering of good grade to a great phonoteca, the interpretation…](https://davidmoraton.com/writing/music-0007)
- [![Thielemann, Demiurge of the Brucknerian Spirit](https://davidmoraton.com/works/images/MUSIC_0006.jpg)<h2>Thielemann, Demiurge of the Brucknerian Spirit</h2>

  2007-01-11 · El Dia, Tenerife, Spain

  After having the great fortune of being able to assist in the magnificent concert offered by the Munich Philharmonic last Tuesday, January 9th, and its great conductor, Christian Thielemann, a conflicting feeling occurre…](https://davidmoraton.com/writing/music-0006)
- [![War Requiem](https://davidmoraton.com/works/images/MUSIC_0005.jpg)<h2>War Requiem</h2>

  2007-01-10 · El Dia, Tenerife, Spain

  Víctor Pablo Pérez conducted once again his Orchestra of always Taking into account the words of Juan Mendoza, distinguished successor of John Nelson in the direction of the Festival, in which he commented that the prese…](https://davidmoraton.com/writing/music-0005)
- [![Superb Finale of the OST Beethovenian Cycle](https://davidmoraton.com/works/images/MUSIC_0004.jpg)<h2>Superb Finale of the OST Beethovenian Cycle</h2>

  2007-01-03 · El Dia, Tenerife, Spain

  The OST (in the image, in a previous performance) did not disappoint the music lovers present at the Auditorium Last Thursday, December 21st, in a complex but complete Auditorium, the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra conclude…](https://davidmoraton.com/writing/music-0004)
- [![Beethoven, Promethean Hero](https://davidmoraton.com/works/images/MUSIC_0003.jpg)<h2>Beethoven, Promethean Hero</h2>

  2006-12-20 · El Dia, Tenerife, Spain

  The Tenerife formation interpreted the Third Symphony of the German composer Last Friday, December 15th, conductor John Nelson, born in Costa Rica and with extensive international career, directed the Tenerife Symphony O…](https://davidmoraton.com/writing/music-0003)
- [![Destiny Knocks at the Door of the Auditorium](https://davidmoraton.com/works/images/MUSIC_0002.jpg)<h2>Destiny Knocks at the Door of the Auditorium</h2>

  2006-11-29 · El Dia, Tenerife, Spain

  If we forget the prejudices against the so-called "classical music," and we allow the sound to invade our spirit, it is possible that some of our miseries, fruit of unpredictable, impossible coherence can be disarmed and…](https://davidmoraton.com/writing/music-0002)
- [![Víctor Pablo bids farewell to the OST with a Wagnerian apotheosis](https://davidmoraton.com/works/images/MUSIC_0001.jpg)<h2>Víctor Pablo bids farewell to the OST with a Wagnerian apotheosis</h2>

  2006-06-21 · El Dia, Tenerife, Spain

  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…](https://davidmoraton.com/writing/music-0001)

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