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    Tuesday 21 January 2025
    La Spezia, Teatro Civico
    Tuesday 21 January 2025 h. 8:45 p.m.
    JAUME SANTONJA conductor
    KERSON LEONG violin
    Orchestra della Toscana
    Annachiara Gedda / Voci senza Voce (Voiceless Voices) - commissioned by Fondazione ORT
    Pëtr Il'ič Čajkovskij / Violin Concerto, Op.35
    Franz Schubert / Symphony No.4, D 417 'Tragic Symphony'
    Concerti a Teatro 2025
    Fondazione Carispezia
    Tickets
    Full price € 15,00
    Reduced price € 12,00
    University and Conservatory students, under 19 € 10,00
    Tickets on sale from 2 January 2025 at Teatro Civico in La Spezia, Teatro degli Impavidi in Sarzana and online at vivaticket.com
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    It is one of the most exhilarating concertos in the violin repertoire. And it is the highlight of the program entrusted to Jaume Santonja, principal guest conductor of the Milan Symphony Orchestra, who returns to the ORT podium after two years. The work in question is Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij‘s Violin Concerto Op.35, a 1878 composition brimming with melodic inventiveness, dazzling in its orchestration, and infused from beginning to end with intense lyricism. It also contains some of the most difficult and spectacular passages of 19th-century violin music, providing the soloist with numerous opportunities to showcase their technical prowess. Adolf Brodsky gave the premiere in Vienna in 1881, but it was harshly criticized by the press—most notably by the renowned critic Eduard Hanslick, famous as a champion of Brahms and a ruthless detractor of Wagner and Bruckner. Hanslick famously described the concerto’s finale as evoking a “brutal and indecent orgy of a Russian folk festival,” where “the air reeks of vodka.”
    Taking on this challenging work is Canadian violinist Kerson Leong, whom the Toronto Star has described as “not only the greatest violinist in Canada, but one of the greatest violinists, period.” Following the concerto is another 19th-century classic, Franz Schubert’s Fourth Symphony, known as the Tragic. The nickname “Tragic” is linked to the slow introduction that opens the first movement, but the symphony quickly becomes serene. The program opens with a new piece commissioned by the ORT Foundation from composer Annachiara Gedda, who has had an extensive international career.


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