Stefano Montanari

From the warmth of spring to the grueling summer heat interrupted by sudden storms, from the cheerful autumn harvests to the windy chill of winter Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons seems to paint a miracle of atmospheric suggestion. The four concerts for violin and orchestra, published in 1727 in the collection Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione, were described by the author in the dedicatory letter as a set of “few and weak Concerts”.
The second part of the program presents the Symphony No. 1 by Ludwig van Beethoven in which, according to the memoirs of Franz Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, already appears the revolutionary personality of the composer not quite thirty years old.

Program

Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony n. 1 in C major, op. 21

Artists

Conductor and Violin
Stefano Montanari

Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

STEFANO MONTANARI

Graduated in violin and piano with honors, from 1995 to 2012 he was concertmaster and director of the Accademia Bizantina of Ravenna, an ensemble specializing in early music. Professor of baroque violin at the Accademia Internazionale della Musica in Milan and the "Dall'Abaco" Conservatory of Verona, Stefano Montanari, is also a regular guest conductor of the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo, La Fenice in Venice, the Society of Lyon, Opera Atelier in Toronto and the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.