Second Visit to Madrid: 1903
La Carreño returns to Madrid. At 50 years old, she performs Grieg's concerto at the Teatro Real on March 22, 1903.
Under the baton of Maestro Geronimo Gimenez, the celebrated Spanish composer, and accompanied by the orchestra of the Sociedad de Conciertos de Madrid, the pianist performs the concerto by the Norwegian composer, Edvard Grieg. It is worth noting the deep admiration Grieg held for her; on several occasions, Grieg himself conducted her in this very work. Undoubtedly, the most flattering praise came from the composer himself: “Madam, I did not know that my concerto was so beautiful.”
The Critics of the Era Wrote:
"The Concerto in A minor (Grieg) was the work chosen by Madame Carreño for her presentation before the Madrid public. It would be futile to search for phrases to express the audience's enthusiasm at the conclusion of the Norwegian musician's concerto. A storm of applause drowned out the final notes, and the great artist returned several times to receive, visibly moved, the tribute to her colossal talent."
Another critic noted:
"We do not recall ovations greater than those received yesterday by Teresa Carreño. One should not look for an intimate note of feminine sentiment in her playing, nor the charming poetry that usually characterizes a woman's interpretation. Her temperament is, on the contrary, grandiose and heroic. She sees everything through that prism: rhythms, melodies, phrases, periods. She feels tenderness and delicacy on a grand scale, in the style of Beethoven. Her rhythms possess astonishing vigor and clarity; she articulates phrases and even motifs, highlighting the rhythmic value of the figuration and giving a character of expressive precision to everything she executes. Her interpretation, coming from the soul, is of the kind that commands the audience, dominating and utterly enthralling them; her performances are truly uplifting."
"La Época" Newspaper – April 5, 1903
Section: Sociedad de Conciertos. Final Concert.
This report refers to Carreño's final scheduled concert and an extraordinary farewell performance:
"The ovation given this afternoon to Teresa Carreño was in no way inferior to those of her previous two sessions. Today's performance had the added allure of featuring Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto (E-flat). Teresa Carreño performed it with an absence of gimmickry, a purity of sentiment, and an artistic conscience that was entirely deserving of unconditional and enthusiastic applause."
"In the third part, she made a great impression executing a Schubert Impromptu, the Valse No. 6 from the Soirées de Vienne (Schubert-Liszt), and Schubert’s Military March in D, ornamented with all kinds of technical difficulties and mechanical devilry by Tausig. Above all, in Weber’s Konzertstück, the applause completely drowned out the finale."
"As encores, she played a charming and romantic Nocturne by Tchaikovsky, Chopin’s Waltz in A-flat, and her own Petite Valse. The public never tired of applauding, and with good reason; artists like Carreño—with such temperament and, moreover, of our race and our blood—are not encountered every day."
"The orchestra, well-directed by Maestro Giménez, performed Cherubini’s Anacreon Overture and Grieg’s Peer Gynt in the first half. There will likely be an extraordinary farewell concert for Teresa Carreño this Tuesday."
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