Teatro Manzoni, Bologna Martijn Dendievel — Brahms
Bologna, Auditorium Manzoni — Main Hall
About the Event
An orchestra of great tradition, Sergiu Celibidache, ZoltánPeskó, Vladimir Delman, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, and Michele Mariotti have taken turns at its helm as music directors. Among the conductors who have led the ensemble are Gary Bertini, Myung‐Whun Chung, James Conlon, Pinchas Steinberg, Valery Gergiev, Eliau Inbal, Vladimir Jurowskij, Daniel Oren, Peter Maag, Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur, Riccardo Muti, Mstislav Rostropovič, Esa Pekka Salonen, Georg Solti, Christian Thielemann, Charles Dutoit, Georges Prêtre. The Teatro Comunale Orchestra is frequently invited abroad (Holland, Romania, Spain, France and Switzerland) and has participated in prestigious festivals (Amsterdam 1987, Parma 1990, Wiesbaden 1994, Santander 2004 and 2008, Aix en Provence 2005, Savonlinna 2006, Macau 2013, Muscat 2015, Guanajuato in Mexico 2017, Paris 2018). A privileged relationship with Japan has resulted in several tours, most recently in June 2019 in Osaka, Tokyo, Yokohama, Fukuoka, with Rigoletto and Il barbiere di Siviglia.
Johannes Brahms
Concerto No. 1 in D minor for piano and orchestra , op. 15
“If he will lower his magic wand where the powers of the choral and orchestral masses can grant him their strength, we can expect to discover even more wonderful landscapes in the secrets of the spirit world.” Thus Robert Schumann prophetically crowned the talent of 20‐year‐old Johannes Brahms, who, however, did not have time to show his mentor the fruits of his first great instrumental creation, the Piano Concerto No. 1, initially conceived as a symphony and later adapted to the Concerto form. Schumann, however, is present in the spirit of the piano writing, now passionate, now suddenly melancholy, now impetuous, now playful, overseen by an orchestra whose vigor finds precedent only in Beethoven.
Symphony No. 3 in F major , op. 90
If Ingrid Bergman and Yves Montand’s film “Do you like Brahms?” made Brahms’s Third Symphony (and more specifically the nostalgic, lacerating third movement) universally famous, Brahms flaunts in this masterpiece a decidedly atypical symphony, whose movements all end on the piano, as if the tensions fade to silence at the end of some of the most intense developments he ever wrote. The composer was very concerned that he would be unsuccessful, and instead in his own day there were those who christened this symphony the “new Eroica,” following in the wake traced by most German critics, who saw Brahms as the natural heir to Beethoven.
Practical Information
You must print out the order confirmation and show it at the box office to collect your regular ticket, starting one hour before the start of the concert, at the Teatro Manzoni, Via De' Monari 1/2.
Cast / Production
Orchestra del Teatro comunale di Bologna
Martijn Dendievel, conductor
Address
Auditorium Manzoni, Via de'Monari 1/2, Bologna, Italy — Google Maps
