Orchestra della Toscana – Opening Season 2024/25 – Diego Ceretta & Frank Peter Zimmermann

About the Event

The season's first concert will showcase conductor Diego Ceretta and violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann performing works by Beethoven, Schumann, and Mendelssohn. The program will explore literary and natural themes through symphonic music.

This inaugural concert marks the beginning of a series of five appointments with Diego Ceretta, the principal conductor. He will present a program focusing on works by Beethoven, Schumann, and Mendelssohn that aim to depict literary subjects and natural scenes through sound. The repertoire includes Beethoven's Egmont Overture, Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony, and Schumann's enigmatic Violin Concerto.

Frank Peter Zimmermann, one of the leading violinists of our time, will perform Schumann's Violin Concerto on his 1711 Stradivarius, the "Lady Inchiquin." The concerto, written in 1853, remained unpublished and unperformed for eighty‐four years after its composition. It continues to be on the fringes of the main repertoire, making Zimmermann's performance a unique and significant event in the concert season.