Music: Stresa Festival 50th Anniversary Autumn Concert Schedule
While we're talking about music, it's time for another reminder about the Stresa Festival and a list of the remaining concerts. This third part of the annual festival is dedicated to celebrating the 50th anniversary of the event. It's been 50 years since the first festival was organized in Stresa by Italo Trentinaglia, you can read about that in this post, and if you are in Stresa you can stop by the Palazzo dei Congressi now through September 4 to see the special exhibition celebrating the fifty years of the Settmane Musicali di Stresa.
This autumn part of the Festival, entitled 'Notes from a Journey', Note di Viaggio, began last Sunday with the concert 'Happy Birthday Festival!' at the Congressi by the Stresa Festival Orchestra, with Festival director Gianandrea Noseda conducting. Burvenich, Sostakovic and Brahms were played. Monday evening fortunate concert-goers listened to 'Brass on the Island', performed by London Brass in the Loggia del Cashmere on Isola Madre. And last night, 'One Night at Bach's', at the Chiesa Madonna di Campagna in Verbania....
Tonight, Italian Wonderbrass will be performing 'World of Sound', Mondo di Suoni, at Castello Visconteo in Vogogna. And these are the concerts that remain on the 2011 schedule:
Thursday August 25 – 8.00 p.m.
Congress Hall – StresaLUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR
by G. Donizetti
semi-staged version
Elena Mosuc, John Osborn,
Franco Vassallo, Riccardo Zanellato, Alessandro Liberatore, Luca Casalin, Arianna Vendittelli
Ars Cantica Choir
Marco Berrini, choir master
Stresa Festival Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor
Friday August 26 – 8.30 p.m.
Villa Ponti – Arona
Dancing tales, Racconti Danzanti
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Schubert, Puccini, Dvořák, Mifune, Stravinskij, Schröder, Šostakovič
Apollon Musagète Quartett
Saturday August 27 – 6.00 p.m.
Chiesa del Crocifisso, Collegio Rosmini – Stresa
Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Sonate e Partite, first half
I HALF
Isabelle Faust, violin
Saturday August 27 – 8.30 p.m.
Chiesa del Crocifisso, Collegio Rosmini – Stresa
Bach: Sonatas and Partitas , Sonate e Partite, second half
II HALF
Isabelle Faust, violin
Sunday August 28 – 8.30 p.m.
Congress Hall – Stresa
Mehta, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Webern, Liszt, Čajkovskij
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Zubin Mehta, conductor
Monday August 29 – 8.30 p.m.
Tapestry Hall– Isola Bella
Simon Trpceski
Chopin, Shahov, Bach/Liszt, Liszt
Simon Trpceski, piano
Tuesday August 30– 8.30 p.m.
Congress Hall – Stresa
Noseda, Filarmonica della Scala
Weber, Beethoven, Dvořák
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
Filarmonica della Scala
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor
Thursday September 1 – 8.30 p.m.
Tapestry Hall – Isola Bella
Rachmaninoff soirée
Rachmaninoff
Pavel Berman, violin
Enrico Dindo, cello
Alexander Romanovsky, piano
Friday September 2 – 8.30 p.m.
Congress Hall – Stresa
Improvvisando
Final concerto of the masterclass of improvisation
Enrico Pieranunzi Trio
Saturday September 3 – 8.30 p.m.
Auditorium "La Fabbrica" – Villadossola
Baroque Europe
Telemann, Vivaldi, Bach, Corelli
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Sunday September 4 – 8.30 p.m.
Congress Hall – Stresa
Chailly, Gewandhausorchester
Beethoven, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Maria João Pires, piano
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Riccardo Chailly, conductor
THE CALENDAR IS SUBJECT TO CHANGES
There are links here to each concert, with information about remaining seats and purchasing tickets. Or visit the main website of the Festival at: http://www.stresafestival.eu/en/festival/festival_2011/programma_2011.html
for much more information.
for much more information.
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