Gian Marco Verdone selected among the best students of the “G.B. Martini” Conservatory in Bologna for the inaugural concert of the Respighi Festival in Bologna
After last year’s experimental edition, the Respighi Festival in Bologna of the Musica Insieme Foundation returns from 24 September to 3 October in a more structured form with the aim of rediscovering and enhancing not only the work of the Bolognese composer, but also that of his contemporary musicians, as well as with concerts also with conferences, films and insights.
New to this edition is the preview on 18 June on the stage of Piazza Maggiore (final event of the new Bologna Portici Festival) with the Orchestra of the Martini Conservatory led by the musical director of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Oksana Lyniv: Beethoven’s Eroica will be set between Brazilian impressions and Respighi’s Ancient arias and dances for lute.
The Conservatory Orchestra will then be the star of the inaugural concert for the world premiere of the piece Omaggio a Respighi, commissioned from a young composer selected from among the most deserving of the Bologna Conservatory.
Another student of the Conservatory, the pianist Gian Marco Verdone, will instead be entrusted with Respighi’s Mixolydian Concert, while Mariangela Vacatello will perform Rachmaninov’s Fourth Piano Concerto. Like last year, the Festival, conceived by the entertainment entrepreneur Maurizio Scardovi, is realized with a large part of the city institutions that deal with music and with the Toscanini Foundation of Parma.
The latter will return to Bologna, at the Teatro Duse (27/9), with her Philharmonic conducted by Alessandro Bonato with the participation of the soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci engaged in Respighi’s poem The Sunset.
The partnership with the Teatro Comunale, which will be entrusted with the final evening, takes concrete form with the Roman Trilogy, the most performed pages by Ottorino Respighi, which the Orchestra will propose to Manzoni again with Oksana Lyniv. A world premiere (on 25 September) will then be the soundtrack of the silent film Sleeping Beauty by Klaus Leni by the composer Virginia Guastella, while the Guadagnini Quartet together with Louis Lortie will offer three rarities from the repertoire: the Quintets for strings and piano by Respighi, Borodin and Wolf-Ferrari.
Source: Ansa.it
