Teatro Manzoni, Bologna Roberto Abbado/Timothy Ridout — Hindemith, Schumann
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.
Paul Hindemith
Der Schwanendreher, concerto for viola and small orchestra over ancient folk songs
“An itinerant player, entering a gathering of merry people, makes these people hear melodies that he has collected elsewhere, both serious and facetious in nature following his inventive genius as a musician, he preludes, embroiders and fantasizes over these themes, ending with a danceable piece.” This is the note placed at the head of Schwanendreher’s score, which literally means “he who spins swans,” perhaps an allegorical reference to the hurdy‐gurdy player. First performed in Amsterdam on Nov. 14, 1935, with the composer himself as soloist, this Viola Concerto exhibits ancient folk melodies, in an anomalous instrumental ensemble, which reserves a position of absolute prominence for the viola, since the two sections of first and second violins are not contemplated, as are the other violas in the orchestra.
Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 2 in C major , op.61
“I wrote the second symphony,” are the composer’s words, “when I was still in great pain, and it seems to me that you should feel it when listening it reflects the resistance of the spirit against my physical condition. The first movement is full of this struggle and its capricious and obstinate character.” Schumann’s four symphonies were born over a period of ten years: the First is written by the German composer in early 1841 in a happy period, shortly after his marriage to Clara Wieck the Second takes shape between 1845 and 1846 in Dresden, when his psychic instability begins to manifest itself in an increasingly serious way the Third, on the other hand, was composed in 1850 following the musician’s move to Düsseldorf to take over the leadership of the city’s orchestra while the Fourth, made in its original version as early as 1841 immediately after the First, shelved because of its lack of success, was revised by the composer in 1851, five years before his death.
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
Roberto Abbado, conductor
Timothy Ridout, viola
Address
Auditorium Manzoni, Via de'Monari 1/2, Bologna, Italy — Google Maps
