Season Concert One:
Pasticcio Italiano

Gaetano Brunetti
Sinfonia No. 22 in G minor

Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for Two Cellos, Strings, and B.C. in G minor RV 531

Giovanni Sollima
"Violoncelles, vibrez" (Version for Two Cellos and String Orchestra)

Giacomo Puccini
"I crisantemi" for String Quartet (Version for String Orchestra)

Luigi Boccherini
Cello Concerto No. 9 in B-flat major G. 482

Luigi Boccherini
Symphony in D minor G. 506 Op. 12/4 "La casa del diavolo"

Antonio Vivaldi was not only probably the best violinist of his time, but it is also historically documented that he mastered other string instruments, particularly the violoncello, which was supposedly his "secret love." The celebrated Salzburg cello virtuoso Julia Hagen, together with CAMERATA solo cellist Paolo Bonomini, will bring this Vivaldi passion to life in the form of his Concerto for Two Cellos. Boccherini’s favoured instrument, with which he enchanted audiences across Europe in his concerts, was, of course, the violoncello. Julia Hagen will juxtapose one of Boccherini’s twelve famous cello concertos, which he composed for himself, with a modern-day double cello concerto. Interestingly, Giovanni Sollima, born in Sicily in 1962, is, like Boccherini, both a composer and a cellist. The CAMERATA enriches this Italian pasticcio with fiery symphonies by Boccherini and his contemporary Brunetti and will perform the opera master Puccini’s string quartet "bel canto" in a choral arrangement.

Concert introduction with Rainer Lepuschitz 30 minutes before the concert in the Wiener Saal (in German).