Kirill Petrenko / Mozart / Brahms

The symphonic season ends with concerts conducted by Kirill Petrenko – principal conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker – and the four soloists of the Santa Cecilia Orchestra. The program starts with Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Wind Instruments. The second part features a great text of 19th-century symphonism, Brahms’ First Symphony.

The Sinfonia Concertante for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon and orchestra, K. 297B in E flat major is a composition in three movements written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1778. The version that has come down to us is influenced by the Parisian musical influences that Mozart had assimilated during his stay in France, and which favoured elegant and worldly choices in a refined musical style, where the orchestra took second place to the solo instruments.

As for Manfred, the latter is a work of incidental music by Robert Schumann. The work is based on Lord Byron's 1817 poem of the same name and consists of an overture and 15 musical pieces: written mainly in 1848, the overture was first performed at the Leipzig Gewandhaus concert in 1852.

The Symphony No. 1 in C minor Op. 68 is a composition by Johannes Brahms written between 1855 and 1876. It is a symphony that is strongly influenced by Beethoven in its musical style. The symphony is structured in the four movements typical of the classical symphony and has a main key in C minor. 

With this last concert Petrenko thus renews his collaboration with the Accademia di Santa Cecilia where the public has given him a warm welcome from the very first moment.

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