Teatro Comunale di Bologna

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Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Concerts

Martijn Dendievel

May 2025

Martijn Dendievel
Music

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Conductor

  • Conductor Martijn Dendievel

Soloists

  • pianoforte Elizaveta Coroli

Programme

  • Concerto n. 1 in re minore per pianoforte e orchestra, op. 15

    by Johannes Brahms

  • Sinfonia n. 3 in fa maggiore, op. 90

    by Johannes Brahms

  • Ouverture, "Le Carnaval Romain"

    by Hector Berlioz

  • "Prèlude à l'après-midi d'un faune"

    by Claude Debussy

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«If he lowers his magic wand where the powers of chorus and orchestra lend him their forces, we may expect to discover still more wonderful landscapes in the secrets of the world of spirits». So Robert Schumann prophetically crowned the talent of the twenty-year-old Johannes Brahms, who did not have time to show his mentor the fruits of his first great instrumental creation, the Piano Concerto no. 1, initially conceived as a symphony and then adapted to concerto form. Schumann is present, though, in the spirit of the piano writing, now passionate, now suddenly melancholy, now impetuous, now playful, watched over by an orchestra whose vigour finds precedents only in Beethoven.

If Ingrid Bergman and Yves Montand made Brahms’s Third Symphony universally famous with the film Goodbye Again — and more particularly its nostalgic, lacerating third movement — Brahms displays in this masterpiece a decidedly atypical symphony, whose movements all end quietly, as though the tensions faded towards silence at the close of some of the most intense developments he ever wrote. The composer was very worried that it would fail; instead, in his own day there were those who christened it the «new Eroica», following the lead of most German critics, who saw in Brahms the natural heir of Beethoven.


Concerts

Symphonic

Abbado, Gringolts

26 October 2026

Teatro Auditorium Manzoni

Abbado, Gringolts
Music
Aram Il’ič Chačaturjan, Dmitrij Dmitrievič Šostakovič
Conductor
Roberto Abbado

Concerts

Symphonic

Chauhan, Brunello

6 November 2026

Teatro Auditorium Manzoni

Chauhan, Brunello
Music
Mieczysław Weinberg, Anton Bruckner
Conductor
Alpesh Chauhan

Concerts

Symphonic

Bolton

20 November 2026

Teatro Auditorium Manzoni

Bolton
Music
Franz Joseph Haydn
Conductor
Ivor Bolton

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