Lucas Macías Navarro

It is a big treat to listen to the well-known piece in this fragile version in which each single voice is equally important, even though you need musicians of a very high level to make this adventure successful. In the hands of Camerata RCO, led by Lucas Macías Navarro, it is a breath-taking experience.

Lucas Macías considered Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No. 2 as an exercise in pure, naked music, attentive to sounding like an aesthetic search for abstraction. He was able to amalgamate the interventions of the soloists, certainly all magnificent, with the orchestral part while they played a leading role in the overall construction of the work. Transparency, clairvoyance and a variety of textures marked this version. [...] And those approaches of Macías served to fructify with forcefulness a universe in which the different states of mind were reflected, from guilt to the liberation of it, and in between the disturbing passages, which here so naked sounded very effective, and the expressive response contained.

The work of Macías with the Oviedo Filarmonía gave good results, with a homogenous, filled sound, always paying close attention to the dynamic contrasts. [...] One of the talents of the maestro is that he emphasizes the importance on the directionality of musical phrases to conclude in a sound climax, as could be observed very especially in the fourth movement of this symphony.

The young director Lucas Macías points very high. His excellent memory and his easy disposition to unravel the structural relations of the musical works were the virtues exhibited in the concert. [...] The composer’s idea of the use of sound space was shown by Lucas Macías in an admirable way [...] Macias carefully observed the moments when the structure is subjected to extreme contradictions.