Music this evening at 9 o’clock at the Melotti Auditorium in Rovereto, with the first of the great symphony concerts in the Rovereto Mozart Festival calendar. Conducted by Kaspar Zehnder, with violin soloist Isabelle van Keulen, the Prague Philharmonic will perform a programme consisting of three very different compositions.

"The Overture to the dramma giocoso Don Giovanni, first performed in Prague in the Autumn of 1787", explains musicologist Danilo Faravelli, a member of the Festival’s technical committee, “is one of the best known of Mozart’s symphonic introductions to his own theatrical works. Its two component sections (thirty bars Andante followed without a break by two hundred and sixty-two bars Molto allegro) provide a perfect framework of previews and allusions to what we are about to see on stage. The minor key of the Andante prepares the listener for the dark and vengeful atmosphere of a plot that opens with a murder which is "colposo ma non troppo"; the sarcastic and irreverent effect of the key of D Major in the Allegro molto succeeds in confusing the thoughts, and especially the emotions, of any listeners who thought they were about to witness a tragedy".

The second piece in the concert is the Symphony in C Major KV 551, composed by Mozart in the summer of 1788 and later named "Jupiter" by his publisher in order to emphasize the exalted heights which Amadeus had reached in composition.

The last item in the evening’s programme is the G Major Violin Concerto KV 216, completed in September 1775. In Danilo Faravelli’s view, the composer of this score "is still the obedient son of an excellent violinist anxious to make the life of his child genius part of his own life, and he is still employed by an orchestra whose lord and master, His Eminence Archbishop Hieronymus von Colloredo, is a good amateur violinist. But he will soon be overtaken by the artist enamoured of his own undeniable genius and unable to prevent it from expressing itself".

TOMORROW, Sunday 30th September, there are two more Mozart Festival musical events:
At 11 a.m in the Palazzo de Probizer at Isera, there is a concert by Open Trios, who will perform a series of reworkings of themes by Mozart.
At 5 p.m. in the Rovereto Philharmonic Hall the Austrian pianist Sigrid Trummer will play music by Mozart and by some female composers of his time.

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