The Vienna orchestra in Savona: for the first time some musicians from the Wiener Philharmoniker will perform in the Duomo
Savona. An extraordinary event. For the first time in Savona, live, some musicians of the Vienna Philharmonic. There is great anticipation for Saturday, October 1st, when, as part of the International Music Festivalthe artistic director, master Francesco Ottonellowill give the city the rare opportunity to listen to some instrumentalists of the Wiener Philharmoniker.
There is enormous satisfaction in the words of the director: “We do not know that, in the history of the city of Savona, musicians from the Vienna Philharmonic, one of the best orchestras in the world, have ever performed. A concert of absolute value, in which the great musicians will perform two quartets: a tribute to Austria and Viennese classicism, with Haydn’s L’Allodola quartet and one to Italy with the famous Giuseppe Verdi quartet ”.
Duomo di Savona, at 9 pm on October 1st, the extraordinary opportunity to listen to the quartet formed by Tibor Kovac (violin), Lara Kusztrich (violin), Holger Tautscher-Groh (purple) e Orfeo Mandozzi (cello).
“All the praise from the Vienna Philharmonic turns out to be an understatement.” Thus Richard Strauss defined the most prestigious orchestra in the world, the Vienna Philharmonic.
The Wiener Philarmoniker is born in 1842, when Carl Otto Nicolai formed the Philharmonic Academy, an independent orchestra that made its decisions through a democratic vote among its members. This is still the principle that governs the orchestra today.
There is no other musical ensemble more coherent and closely associated with the history and tradition of European classical music than the Vienna Philharmonic. Throughout its history, the musicians of this leading orchestra of the music capital have been an integral part of a musical era which, due to the abundance of exceptionally talented composers and performers, must be regarded as unique. And as such it has always attracted the greatest conductors, including Hans Richter (1875-1882), Gustav Mahler (1898-1901), Felix Weingartner (1908-1927), Wilhelm Furtwängler (1927-1930), Clemens Krauss (1930-1933). Later, some of the greatest conductors of the twentieth century took turns such as Richard Strauss, Arturo Toscanini, Karl Böhm, Herbert von Karajan, Georg Solti, Erich Kleiber, Carlos Kleiber, Leonard Bernstein, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti and Valerij Abisalovi Gergiev.
Since 10 January 1941 the orchestra has held the very famous years “Concere dedicated to the music of the Straus family. The concert is in collaboration with ICIT Savona, the Italian-German Cultural Institute.
The concert will have free admission and free of charge subject to availability.