Ceretta - Bronzi in concert
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Diego Ceretta conducts the ORT (Tuscany Orchestra) with Enrico Bronzi, in a program including Schumann, Brahms and Capogrosso
On Wednesday, April 9, at 9 p.m., Florence's Teatro Verdi hosts a concert featuring
Diego Ceretta, conductor
Enrico Bronzi, cello
and the Tuscany Orchestra
Fabio Massimo Capogrosso / Salvador, Impressioni Surrealiste (2018)
Robert Schumann / Concerto for cello and orchestra op.129
Johannes Brahms / Symphony No. 1 op.68
Schumann, the mentor, and Brahms, the predestined. In Germany, in the first half of the 19th century, Robert Schumann picked up Beethoven's weighty legacy, a mountain he stubbornly tried to climb. However, it was in vain, from his point of view. So he handed over this task to a young composer of very rare talent. His name was Johannes Brahms and he was given a task of historic dimensions, which left him feeling crushed. Thus, the longed-for symphony that Schumann directed him to as early as 1853 (shortly before he ended up in a mental institution, where he ended his days), was not completed until twenty-three years later, in 1876. It was the first of four symphonies and the most troubled and torturous one, evoking, in the finale, the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
Hence Brahms' Symphony No. 1 - which some, at that time, dubbed “Beethoven's Tenth” - is heard conducted by principal conductor Diego Ceretta. It is preceded by Schumann's Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, which the composer himself described as "a serene piece”, played for the occasion by Enrico Bronzi, a musician with many interests: he is a member of the Parma Trio, a teacher at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and artistic director of festivals and concert seasons.
The program also includes a 2018 entry, Impressioni Surrealiste (Surrealist Impressions) by Fabio Massimo Capogrosso, a Umbrian composer now in his 40s and known to the general public for the soundtracks of Marco Bellocchio’s latest films, Esterno Notte and Rapito.
