Thursday 18 April in the cathedral of Sassari, the concert of the string orchestras of the Conservatory and the Azuni High School

Thursday 18 April in the cathedral of Sassari, the concert of the string orchestras of the Conservatory and the Azuni High School

The Canepa and Azuni strings together again. On Thursday 18th the students of the two institutes in concert at the Sassari cathedral. The program includes pieces by Sibelius, Vivaldi, Mozart/Bach, Bartók.

Thursday 18 April in the cathedral of Sassari, the concert of the string orchestras of the Conservatory and the Azuni High School

A comparison of styles and generations, but above all a great opportunity for growth: on Thursday 18 April at 8.30 pm in the cathedral of San Nicola in Sassari the appointment with the concert of the string orchestras of the “Luigi Canepa” Conservatory and the Liceo returns musical “Azuni”. The meeting, which takes place for the third consecutive year, involves around thirty students from the two institutes merged into a single ensemble and directed by the Conservatory’s teacher of Orchestral Practice, Mattia Rondelli.

The program, explains Rondelli, can be read as the synthesis of the personality of the young people that music highlights, represented by the soloists selected by the two institutions: the violinists Pietro Piredda, Chiara Casula, Maria Campus and Lucia Scano and the cellists Maria Carla Piras and Andrea Mulas.

In the opening song of the program, Impromptu for strings op.5, by Jean Sibelius, «a hieratic, severe and almost sad song alternates with a joyful dance, as if to announce an incipient spring», explains the conductor. They will then be executed Concerto in B minor RV 580 for four violins, cello, strings and continuous bass and the Concerto in G minor RV 531 for two cellos, strings and continuous bass by Antonio Vivaldi. Rare to listen to, even more so in the orchestral version, is the Escape n° 1 from The Well-Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach transcribed for strings by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, to which the genius from Salzburg precedes, as a prelude, a Slowly taken from Quartet of dissonances, one of his most famous chamber works. At the antipodes of Bach’s fugue and rigour, the folklorism of Romanian dances and gods Ten pieces from For childrentranscribed for string orchestra, by the Hungarian Bela Bartók which will close the evening.

The orchestra will be made up of 11 students from the Azuni High School, trained by teachers Alessio Manca and Gioele Lumbau, and 15 students from the Conservatory. Entrance to the concert is free and free.