Florence, Teatro Verdi: the Orchestra of Tuscany (ORT) conducted by Markus Stenz, soloist Nicolai Pfeffer
Florence – Friday 5th November at 9pm Verdi Theater of Florence theOrchestra of Tuscany (ORT) will be directed by Markus Stenz, solo the clarinetist Nicolai Pfeffer for the Clarinet Concerto K.622 by Mozart, who recorded with the ORT in 2020 for the NovAntiqua record label.
“It was one of the first pieces of classical music I listened to as a child and it was love at first sight, immediately that I wanted to play the clarinet. I could say that this composition was the trigger for my artistic career. I don’t think there is a piece that moves me more than this one “: this is how the well-known clarinetist Pfeffer talks about Clarinet Concerto K.622 that Mozart wrote, a couple of months before his death, for his friend and Freemason brother Anton Stadler, his financial support in recent times without a penny. He played the dedicatory on a special instrument, the basset clarinet, with a greater extension than the normal clarinet, which, however, much more widespread, then appropriated this Concerto. Today it is performed indifferently with one or the other.
Markus Stenz he can be defined Tuscan by adoption, having directed the Montepulciano shipyard for many years and often being a guest in the ORT season. Having recently concluded his permanent engagement with the Baltimore, Seoul and Dutch Radio orchesters, he handles the music of the last century with his eyes closed, after having had experience at the head of the London Sinfonietta and having been chosen to baptize scores of Henze and Kurtág. For this reason it brings to the ORT a real rarity of Ferruccio Busoni, the Lustspielouvertüre, conceived at the end of the nineteenth century as an introductory piece to an ideal comedy, and the suite of eighteenth-century incidental music which, in 1911, Richard Strauss started composing in support of a staging of Bourgeois gentleman di Molière staged by the prose company directed by the great director Max Reinhardt.
Florence, Theater Verdi (via Ghibellina 99)
Friday 5 November 2021 at 9 pm
Markus Stenz director – Nicolai Pfeffer clarinet – Orchestra of Tuscany
Ferruccio Busoni, Lustspielouvertüre, Op.38
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra K.622
Richard Strauss, The bourgeois gentleman suite op.60
Markus Stenz, Music, Orchestra of Tuscany (ORT), Season 2021-2022