Andermatt Music: La Scala

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For the season finale, the Filarmonica della Scala is a guest in Andermatt. Without any vocals, the orchestra shines with works by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Ludwig van Beethoven. About the program: Beethoven and important political figures from his present and past - books could be filled about this. One example of this is the Coriolan Overture, in which he sets the story of the arrogance and fall of a (probably fictitious) Roman general to music: Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus, a proud patrician, makes enemies with the plebeians, which leads to him being banished from the city for sedition. In revenge, he allies himself with Rome's arch-enemies, the Volscians, and attacks his homeland. Although his mother's pleas put an end to the warlike activities, Coriolan, accused of treason by the Volscians and therefore murdered, meets a tragic end. The greatest influence of all political personalities on the composer was undoubtedly Napoleon. Beethoven's initial enthusiasm for his revolutionary spirit gave way more and more to angry disillusionment at Napoleon's increasingly obvious tyrannical claim to power. When Beethoven wrote his 7th Symphony, Napoleon was on the verge of the Russian campaign. At the time of its premiere in Vienna in 1813, the campaign had already failed miserably and the decisive Battle of Leipzig had been won by the Allied troops. The benefit concert in aid of anti-Napoleonic fighters became a great triumphal celebration - Beethoven's secretary Schindler wrote euphorically: "The outbursts of jubilation [...] surpassed anything that had been experienced in the concert hall until then." Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy experienced less turbulent times in Leipzig during the composition of his famous Violin Concerto in E minor. He had already announced it to the violinist Ferdinand David in 1838, and it was premiered in 1845 under the baton of Niels Gade - Mendelssohn himself was unable to attend due to illness. The work is one of the most influential solo concertos of the 19th century, for example due to the immediate entry of the solo violin or the written-out cadenza in the first movement, which is played unusually early. However, the greatest innovation is probably the lack of pauses between the movements, so that the audience's applause has to wait until the end of the piece. The soloist in our concert is Julian Rachlin, who also conducts Milan's Filarmonica della Scala, founded by Claudio Abbado in 1982, from the music stand. The concert takes place in cooperation with Adermatt Music and Swiss Alps Classics. Program: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Concerto for violin in E minor op. 64 Ludwig van Beethoven Coriolan Overture op. 62 Symphony No. 7 in A major op. 92 Filarmonica della Scala Julian Rachlin, conductor & violin Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.