Conductor Dorin Frandeș
Soloist Florin Gherghel

Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Overture to opera Don Giovanni K. 527
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy – Concerto for violin and orchestra no. 1 in D minor
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy – IVth Symphony in A major op.90 „Italian”

The first symphonic programme in September

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the genius of XVIIIth century music, and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, the wunderkind from the beginning of the XIXth century, meet within the first symphonic programme in September, a month of pre-season debuting on Thursday evening, September 8th.

The Overture to Don Giovanni opera by Mozart, the famous sonorous portrait of the character which has scandalised the entire Europe through his behaviour, conceived and presented in Prague, in 1797, opens the evening led by conductor Dorin Frandeş, who has turned to classical-romantic themes of the most beloved centuries of musical art.

It is a perfect musical preface for the Bartholdy ”medallion”, the composer who has been imprinted in the history of music with the nickname of ”XIXth century Mozart”, whose creation will be present in the form of a first audition, in the interpretation of soloist Florin Gherghel – Concerto no.1 in D minor for violin and orchestra. Strongly influenced by the ”perfume” of the XVIIIth century, reminding us all that Mendelssohn was inherently the most classical of romantics, the part is representative for his early art, eccentric through its melodic material and extremely concentrated, as concerns its timespan and virtuosity.

Inspired by the history, art and landscapes of the most musical continental peninsula – the Italian, his IVth symphony covers the second part of the audition evening, closing one of the most inspired symphonic selections with its amplitude and vivacity.