The program offers a journey through two centuries of music, weaving together timeless masterpieces and contemporary pages designed for the intimate ensemble of flute with string trio.
The opening is given to theOverture from Rossini‘sBarber of Seville , reinterpreted in the chamber version by Küffner who preserves all the theatrical brilliance of Rossini’s famous masterpiece, transforming the orchestra’s energy into a lively dialogue between wind and strings.
This is followed by Mozart‘s Quartet in C major K 285b, a page of luminous elegance in which the flute takes on the role of poetic soloist, supported by an understated and transparent interweaving of the strings. Mozart, a pianist and violinist, said he found it more difficult to write for the flute, which was not “his” instrument, but he considered it essential to lend luminosity to the sound of the orchestra and made much use of it; moreover, his last masterpiece was The Magic Flute.
The itinerary then lands on the contemporary with a piece by eclectic musician Federico Maria Sardelli, Empfindsames Quartett, a piece that looks at eighteenth-century sensibility by filtering it through a contemporary writing, rich in expressive nuances and fine stylistic irony. Sardelli, a multifaceted artist from Livorno, is a flutist, baroque conductor and composer, as well as a painter from early youth, writer, screenwriter and film and theater actor.
Mozart then returns with one of the greatest masterpieces written for this formation: the Quartet in D major K 285. A gem of melodic grace, formal balance and typically Mozartian cantabile.
Closing the concert is a tribute to the great Nino Rota with a selection of pieces that celebrate the dreamlike and melancholy dimension of the great composer of Fellini’s music, evoking atmospheres of suspended poetry and timeless cinematic memories.
P R O G R A M M E
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)* – Overture from the opera “Il Barbiere di Siviglia”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) – Quartet for flute and strings in C major, K 285b
Federico Maria Sardelli (b. 1963) – Empfindsames Quartett for flute and strings
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) – Quartet for flute and strings in D major K 285
Nino Rota (1911-1979) – The Road of Dreams. Tribute to Nino Rota
*Cameral version by Joseph Küffner (1776-1856).