Saturday 8 July, 5pm and Sunday 9 July, 3pm King’s and Queen’s Performing Arts Centre Richard Davis Conductor Luca Manghi Flute |
Melbourne-based conductor Richard Davis and soloist DSO Principal Flute Luca Manghi will guide us through an Italian-themed concert.
Vivaldi’s Baroque La Notte (“The Night”) is far from docile - its second movement is entitled “Fantasmi” - “Ghosts”.
Luca described Vivaldi as one of his favourite composers and that he listened to a recording of the piece La Notte when he was only 9!
The second flute concerto by composer Briccialdi nicknamed the ‘Paganini of the flute’ is a rarity.
The piece was written around 1850 and scored for flute and piano but the work is also listed for flute and orchestra.
Puccini’s The Chrysanthemums - an elegy for an Italian-born nobleman who had briefly served as the King of Spain in the 1870s, and Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony - written after an 1830 Italian trip, conveying Italy’s countryside, art and architecture.
Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite
Vivaldi: Flute Concerto, ‘La Notte’
Puccini: The Chrysanthemums
Briccialdi: Flute Concerto
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, ‘Italian’
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