Zubin Mehta

The 80th Maggio Musicale Fiorentino opens with a grand symphonic concert conducted by Zubin Mehta: the programme for the evening, symbolic of the Maggio’s cultural offering, accompanies the first Italian performance of a contemporary composer - the Concerto for percussion and orchestra by Friedrich Cerha, performed by Simone Rubino - with two twentieth-century pieces: the Concerto for violin and orchestra op. 36 by Arnold Schönberg (which will be performed by Michael Barenboim), composed in 1936 and defined as “the most difficult concerto in musical history”, and the second suite from the ballet Daphnis et Chloé, a model of modern orchestration for its passion and fantasy.

Program

Friedrich Cerha
Concert for percussions and orchestra – First Italian performance

Arnold Schönberg
Concert for violin and orchestra, op. 36

Maurice Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé, suite n.2

Artists

Conductor
Zubin Mehta

Choir director
Lorenzo Fratini

Orchestra and Choir of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Percussions
Simone Rubino

Violin
Michael Barenboim