Filarmonica della Scala: the debut
The 2024 concert season of the Filarmonica della Scala resumes on Sunday 6 October at 8 pm with the debut of Giovanni Sollima, conductor and soloist on cello.
The first part of the concert is dedicated to Franz Joseph Haydn, with three of the Scottish Songs - Leader Haughs and Yarrow, On a Bank of Flowers, The Shepherd Adonis - and the Concerto No. 2 in D major for cello and orchestra. In the second part, Sollima conducts his piece Folktales for cello and orchestra, a crossroads of suggestions that he composed, letting himself be permeated by the sound languages of the Mediterranean.
A new appointment also for the Open Rehearsals season, on Sunday 6 October at 10.30 a.m., in favour of Children in Crisis Italy Onlus and in particular of the Pepita Youth Orchestra, created to offer compulsory school children the opportunity to study and practice music in an orchestra.
‘He has no fear, and that is so unusual in the classical world,’ says cellist Yo-Yo Ma of Sollima, a reckless virtuoso, versatile artist, and composer who embraces music history and Mediterranean traditions with equal passion. It is no coincidence that Haydn is among his favourite composers: ‘because he dared more than anyone else,’ he explains.
Regarding his 2009 piece Folktales, he says: ‘The fact that I am Sicilian and that I am always aware, even if only in an imaginary way, of a sort of crossroads of sounds and stratifications of all kinds that are piled up without a precise order, pushes me to almost always seek some sort of container-type form, where I try to make even the most apparently incompatible and heterogeneous matter dialogue. Folktales is divided into four interconnected blocks (the first movement is a sort of hyperactive allegro, preceded by a slow melody) in which improvisatory solo areas alternate with areas of continuous dialogue with the orchestra. There is also a Ciaccona, whose bass line is based on a baroque piece by the Bolognese cellist-composer Giulio Ruvo. Almost the entire Folktales develops on the Ciaccona bass line'.
(from OperaClick)
