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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 - Symphony No. 4 in A major op. 90 (‘Italian’)
Intermission

  • Hector Berlioz - ‘Harold in Italy’ - Symphony for orchestra (with solo viola)
Additional information

Educational Services

http://www.konzerthaus.de/de/schule
Participating artists
Konzerthausorchester Berlin
Joana Mallwitz (Dirigentin)
Antoine Tamestit (Viola)
Dates
February 2025
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