Riccardo Muti
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
That Riccardo Muti is this year celebrating his fortieth anniversary as the chief conductor of the Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino can only serve to make the joint appearance of conductor and orchestra in Athens a truly festive occasion.
The concert’s backbone is an ‘operatic’ masterpiece of religious music for an impressive number of performers – a large orchestra, a mixed choir and four soloists – who are sure, under Muti’s inspirational direction, to grant audiences a rare treat: a ‘thoroughbred’ Italian sound. Stabat Mater, a poem meditating on the Virgin Mary’s all-night vigil at the foot of the Cross, has been a source of inspiration for some of the finest composers working in the Western tradition (Palestrina, Pergolesi, Haydn, Verdi et al.). Still, the version by Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) – a composer most renowned for his comic operas – enjoys pride of place among them thanks to its artful melding of an elegant melody and high religious feeling. [Ι.Μ.Τ.]
The concert is staged in collaboration with the ELPIDA Association of Friends of Children with Cancer.
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