More than 80 EUYO musicians came together for their long awaited Ferrara Musica symphonic residency, rehearsing and performing in Ferrara from 8 to 22 September, in events including an outdoor concert as part of the InternoVerde Festival and 4 concerts at the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara. Two of the Orchestra’s concerts premiered Music Minus the Rules!, a new series with the EUYO in a relaxed and informal mode playing excerpts from a variety of music, with a special presenter as a guide to explain what is happening onstage, and a chance for the audience to ask questions and hear from the players and conductor. If you have never tried a live performance of classical music before, this is the perfect way to begin.
Verde Ottone
11 September | 18.30 | Vicolo del Parchetto 9
A brass quintet of EUYO musicians lightened the mood of tourists and Ferrarese citizens alike with informal music, as they visited one of the normally inaccessible private gardens opened up by the InternoVerdeFestival.
Programme
Samuel Scheidt Battle Suite (arr. P. Jones). I. Galliard Battaglia
Malcolm Arnold Quintet for Brass, Op. 73. I. Allegro Vivace
Victor Ewald Brass Quintet No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 5. I. Moderato
Witold Lutosławski Mini Overture for Brass Quintet
Tylman Susato Renaissance Dances (arr. J. Iveson)
Players
Giovanni Giardinella Trumpet
Eugenio Valle Trumpet
Francesco Lucantoni Horn
Ricardo Ortiz Rubio Trombone
Ilkka Marttila Tuba
Music minus the rules - Exploded Orchestra!
12 September | 16.00 - 17.00 | Teatro Comunale Claudio Abbado
Presented by Ambra Bianchi from the Associazione Musicisti di Ferrara with conductor Peter Stark and the musicians of the EUYO. This concert showed what an orchestra really gets up to when rehearsing, let the audience hear from the musicians, see what happens when different ideas are tried in a rehearsal, and even allowed the audience to make their own suggestions about how the music should go. It also featured short excerpt performances from a variety of music.
From Prague to Helsinki
18 September | 20.30 | Teatro Comunale Claudio Abbado
Pekka Kuusisto Conductor
Laura Marzadori Violin
Programme
Antonín Dvořák Romance in F minor, Op. 11
Antonín Dvořák Mazurek in E minor, Op. 49
Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82
Music minus the rules - Altro che Classica!
19 September | 16.00 -17.00 | Teatro Comunale Claudio Abbado
Specialist music presenter Fabio Sartorelli introduced the audience to the world of orchestra performance with conductor Sascha Goetzel and the Orchestra, showing just how fun classical music can be, with a diverse range of musical extracts, a look at the composers who wrote the music, and answers to audience questions. Perfect for first timers to classical music.
Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique Symphony
22 September | 20.30 | Teatro Comunale Claudio Abbado
Sascha Goetzel Conductor
Programme
Franz Schreker Scherzo for String Orchestra, Op. 8
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 in B minor ‘Pathétique’, Op. 74
