The Filarmonica della Scala: the most prestigeous Italian orchestra live
in HD on silver screens around the world.
To mark its thirtieth anniversary, the Filarmonica della Scala inaugurates a project that will bring great symphonic music live in HD from La Scala to cinemas in Italy and abroad: Christoph Eschenbach, Riccardo Chailly, Andrea BattistoniandFabio Luisiwill be conducting four concerts, which will be broadcast in cinemas around the world.
The venture is produced by Musicom.it and distributed by Nexo Digital with the support of UniCredit as the Filarmonica's main partner.
Christoph Enschenbach, one of the most influential maestros on the international music scene, has been Music Director of the Tonhalle Orchesta Zurich, Orchestre de Paris and the Philadelphia Orchestra. He will conduct a classic programme that includes Mozart's Jupiter symphony and Brahms's first symphony; two celebrated masterpieces of classical music.
Riccardo Chailly, Music Director of the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, and the Italian jazz pianist Stefano Bollani have already topped the charts around the world with their recordings of Gershwin. However, without any doubt, the fusion of classical sounds with jazz improvisations is at their best when heard live. Riccardo Chailly has had an on-going and invaluable rapport with the orchestra, having conducted numerous opera productions, such as Madama Butterfly, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Rigoletto and Aida, and a wide ranging symphonic repertoire which includes a triumphant tour of the United States in 2007.
The 23-year-old Andrea Battistoni, the most successful young Italian conductor who will conduct a production of The Marriage of Figaro at La Scala in 2012, will lead the Filarmonica and together with the equally young pianist Alexander Romanovsky through the most spellbinding melodies by Rachmaninoff. In collaboration with the Rachmaninoff Foundation.
Andrea Battistoni makes his debut with the Filarmonica with an impressive programme of romanticism, with remarkable virtuosity, that starts with a world première of a musical composition by the 32-year-old Matteo Franceschini commissioned by the Filarmonica.
Fabio Luisi, after his commitments in Geneva, Dresden and Vienna, is in the limelight owing to his recent appointment as Principal Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera, New York. For his debut with the Filarmonica scheduled for 21 May, he will perform, apart from three canzonas to mark the 400th anniversary of Giovanni Gabrieli, Beethoven's 4th piano concerto with the young Polish prodigy Rafał Blechacz and two Italian symphonic pieces of extraordinary orchestral virtuosity: the enthralling Paganiniana by Alfredo Casella and the Feste Romane by Ottorino Respighi, a piece of such vivid imagery as to embody an authentic example of musical cinema.
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