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    Sextuors Concertants

    Sunday 12 July 2026
    Firenze, Giardino della Villa Medicea di Castello
    Sunday 12 July 2026 h. 6:30 p.m.
    ORT Sextet
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Grand Concertante Sextet for String Sextet, from the Sinfonia Concertante K 364
    Pëtr Il'ič Čajkovskij / Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70, for string sextet
    Duration 60 minutes about / no pause
    violins Giacomo Bianchi, Franziska Schötensack
    violas Stefano Zanobini, Francesca Piccioni
    cellos Augusto Gasbarri, Klara Wincor

    VILLE E GIARDINI INCANTATI
    Live Music in the Medici Villas of Tuscany
    10th edition / 2026
    Tickets
    Full €15,00
    Reduced €12,00 (Unicoop Firenze Members)
    + any buying commissions
    Tickets on sale from 5 MAY at the Teatro Verdi Box Office (tel. +39 055212320 - TIMETABLE > CLICK HERE), in the Ticketone Circuit sales outlets; online on Ticketone.it and at the venue before the concert (only if not sold out in advance). Info: tel. +39 0550681726 - teatro@orchestradellatoscana.it

    FREE GUIDED TOUR of the Villa by the staff of the Regional Directorate of Museums in Tuscany of the Mic (Ministry of Culture). The visits take place from 5:00 pm, and will take place for single groups with staggered departures every 30 minutes.

    The title, Sextuors Concertants, immediately evokes the idea of dialogue: six string instruments which, whilst in a chamber music setting, perform with the spirit of a concerto, highlighting one after the other in a continuous interplay of exchanges and responses.

    It is precisely this concertante dimension – that is, its participatory and brilliant nature – that links the two masterpieces on the programme. The Grande sestetto concertante is a refined nineteenth-century transcription of Mozart’s famous Sinfonia concertante K 364, originally conceived for orchestra and two soloists. In this version, the score becomes more compact and intimate, yet retains all the charm of the dialogue between the voices, striking a perfect balance between virtuosity and cantabile.

    Tchaikovsky, with his Souvenir de Florence, seems to respond to this idea with a different language, more romantic and passionate, yet equally concertante: each instrument has a clearly defined role, and the rich, layered musical texture maintains a constant tension between lyrical momentum and architectural rigour. It is a composition that looks to the European tradition but with a deeply Russian soul, and which finds in the sextet an ideal form for expressing both intimacy and collective energy.
    Two different ways of understanding musical dialogue, two eras, two expressive worlds. A single idea: that of six instruments that do not merely accompany, but tell a story together.









    Villa Medicea di Castello


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