Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Joana Mallwitz

mit Antoine Tamestit

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• Antoine Tamestit

Off to Italy! If not in person, you can at least escape the grey of Berlin for a while with the Konzerthausorchester, Joana Mallwitz and our former artist in residence violist Antoine Tamestit. First, Swedish composer Andrea Tarrodi will take you through picturesque Ligurian villages. The 21-year-old Felix Mendelssohn also fell in love with the southern landscape: ‘There is music in it, it sounds and resounds from all sides.’ He wrote to his sister Fanny: ‘In general, composing is now fresh again. The ‘Italian Symphony’ is making great progress; it will be the funniest piece I have written.’ However, the first version was only completed with great effort in the Berlin winter of 1832 - you would never know that from listening! Hector Berlioz travelled through the Abruzzo mountains. Impressions from this tour and inspiration from Byron's poem ‘Childe Harold's Pilgrimage’ resulted in a stylistically unique symphony in which the solo viola seems to embody the thematically rather static traveller, while the orchestra seems to embody the romantic, roaring world, including a serenade to the lover and a description of a robbers' camp.

Andrea Tarrodi - „Liguria“Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - Sinfonie Nr. 4 A-Dur op. 90 („Italienische“)PauseHector Berlioz - „Harold in Italien“ - Sinfonie für Orchester (mit Solo-Viola)

Artists/Collaborators: Joana Mallwitz (Dirigentin), Antoine Tamestit (Viola)

Next date:

• Date Saturday, 22/February/2025 20:00 bis 22:15
• Venue Konzerthaus Berlin - Großer Saal
• Address Gendarmenmarkt, 10117 Berlin-Mitte