Stefano Montanari

"The Fate knocking at the door", terrible and irrevocable: so initiates the first movement of the Symphony No. 5. A succession of four notes, probably the most famous in music history, to describe the conflict between light and darkness, the dramatic struggle of humanity against the blind fate. Alongside this monumental masterpiece, the creation of which engages Ludwig van Beethoven for four years between 1804 and 1808, the program follows with the brilliant Concert for bassoon and orchestra by Carl Maria von Weber and Variations in B flat major by Johannes Brahms created from a manuscript by Joseph Haydn kept in the library of the Vienna Society of Friends of Music, which in turn quotes a theme fro the Chorale S. Antonii, an ancient Austrian processional song.

Program

Johannes Brahms
Variations in B-flat major for orchestra, op. 56a on a theme from Chorale S. Antonii from Feldparthie n. 6, Hob:II:46 by Franz Joseph Haydn

Carl Maria von Weber
Concert in F major op. 75 for bassoon and orchestra, J. 127

Interval

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony n.5 in C minor, op.67

Artists

Conductor
Stefano Montanari

Bassoon
Raffaele Giannotti

Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino