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    Hoffmann_Barradas

    Friday 16 May 2025
    Massa (MS), Teatro Guglielmi
    Friday 16 May 2025 h. 9:00 p.m.
    NIKLAS BENJAMIN HOFFMANN conductor
    JOÃO BARRADAS accordion
    Orchestra della Toscana
    Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy / The Hebrides, Op.26
    Cristian Carrara / Rosso Ferrari (Red Ferrari) - premiere
    Kurt Weill / Symphony No.2
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    Nearly one hundred years separate each of the three compositions in the program of ORT’s final concert of the season. Indeed, The Hebrides Overture by Mendelssohn dates back to 1830, Weill’s Symphony to 1933-34, and fresh from the pen is Cristian Carrara’s score, commissioned by Fondazione ORT, Musica Insieme, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Santa Barbara Symphony, and FVG Orchestra. The Hebrides is the work of a young man in his twenties from a wealthy family, completing his education on the Grand Tour. Among the first stops is Scotland, where he visits the Hebrides islands. On one of these, Staffa, he is captivated by the so-called Fingal’s Cave, a natural marvel formed by hexagonal basalt pillars, named after a hero of Gaelic-Scottish mythology. In the overture, Mendelssohn vividly depicts the misty Scottish weather, the restless sea, and the storms around the cave. Weill’s Symphony is instead a work of exile. Shortly after the Nazis came to power, Weill decided to leave Germany and settle in France. This symphony is his first work as an exile: pure music, devoid of political subtext, and it was premiered by one of the century’s greatest conductors, Bruno Walter. The third piece of the evening comes from a composer well known to ORT, having served as its artistic coordinator between 2020 and 2021. It is Cristian Carrara, now leading the Teatro Verdi in Pisa and the Fondazione Pergolesi-Spontini in Jesi. The soloist for Rosso Ferrari is João Barradas. On the podium is the return of Niklas Benjamin Hoffmann, a young German maestro who cut his teeth as assistant conductor at the London Symphony Orchestra.

     




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