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(ANSA) – ROME, JUNE 15 – It’s well-known that the Austrian capital has a smooth spot for Riccardo Muti and that the Wiener Philharmoniker have the deepest affection and esteem for him – for over fifty years they’ve reserved the rostrum for him on a very powerful events. An esteem that from the nice Italian grasp additionally reverberates to his “creature”, the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra, which in Vienna just a few days in the past, on 12 June, celebrated the primary twenty years of its basis with a live performance on the very prestigious Corridor of the Musikverein by performing in a program chosen to boost not solely the expertise of younger Italian musicians, but in addition an Italian type and repertoire that’s too typically ignored. The Cherubini, which in these twenty years has welcomed virtually a thousand musicians into its ranks, in Muti’s (totally realized) intention is a valuable coaching alternative past the educational path, able to giving younger individuals consciousness and pleasure in an essential “career”. In spite of everything, lots of these thousand took off to hitch essential orchestras in Italy and Europe – amongst many Paolo Taballione, first flute on the Bayerische Staatsoper and now additionally trainer on the Mozarteum in Salzburg. The outcomes additionally shocked the demanding Viennese public in addition to essentially the most acute critics of the Austrian press who, along with confirming that “Riccardo Muti is definitely probably the most essential conductors of our time”, positioned the emphasis exactly on his orchestra which ” was in a position to impressively reveal his excessive requirements.” The Italian thread adopted by Riccardo Muti within the selection of items was immersed, like Cherubini herself, within the broader and extra fruitful European panorama: right here is the opening entrusted to the Overture in C main “in Italian type” D 591 by a Schubert fascinated by symphonic pages by Rossini which had been highly regarded in Vienna on the time. Nevertheless it was the much less frequented Italian pages that gained over the Viennese public: Contemplazione, Alfredo Catalani’s “jewel”, for “orchestral bel canto” – the place Cherubini’s wind devices actually gave their greatest; then the timbric enamel and expressive vigor achieved within the songs from the “Turandot” suite by Ferruccio Busoni. And extraordinary reward additionally went to the interpretation of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto Ok 622, with the solo half entrusted to none aside from the primary Wiener clarinet, Daniel Ottensamer. A rare success, subsequently, which was repeated final evening, within the Basilica of the Patriarchs of Aquileia – with a small variation to this system which after the opening reserved for Schubert closed as if circularly returning to the identical writer together with his “Incompiuta” symphony. However, as Riccardo Muti by no means tires of repeating, Schubert like Mozart and all of musical Europe owe so much to our nation. Furthermore, let’s not overlook that Beethoven deeply admired Luigi Cherubini: it’s no coincidence that Muti needed to call the younger orchestra after him. Which already within the subsequent few days will return to carry out once more directed by its founder: to rejoice the centenary of Giacomo Puccini in Lucca, on 28 June, and in July within the conventional live performance of the Viaggio dell’Amicizia di Ravenna pageant which can take it to the island of Lampedusa. (HANDLE).
2024-06-15 22:53:10