I SOLISTI VENETI

GIULIANO CARELLA, conductor
MASSIMO MERCELLI, flute

19. August 2025
8.00 pm
Academia Philharmonicorum
19 €, 39 €, 44 €, 49 €

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During presale period, which for this event lasts until 17. February 2025, members of Ljubljana Festival Club are entitled to a 20% discount and to 10% discount in regular sale on ticket purchase. you can join the Club here.

Programme: 

Nino Rota: Concerto for Strings
Rachel Portman: Suite for flute and orchestra

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Benjamin Britten: Simple Symphony, op. 4
Dmitrij Šostakovič, arr. Rudolf Barshai: Chamber Symphony in C minor, op. 110a

The chamber orchestra I Solisti Veneti was founded in 1959 in Padua. Under the musical leadership of its founder, Claudio Scimone, it gained prominence primarily for its repertoire of Italian Baroque music. Over more than sixty years of its career, the orchestra has performed in around one hundred countries and received a plaque from the European Parliament recognizing it as an Ambassador of Culture and Music Across Borders. Since 2019, Giuliano Carella has served as the orchestra’s musical director and, from 2020, also as its artistic director. He is dedicated to opera and symphonic repertoire, performing in prestigious concert halls such as the Salle Pleyel in Paris, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

Flautist Massimo Mercelli regularly collaborates with renowned musical figures such as Philip Glass, Krzysztof Penderecki, Gabriel Prokofiev, Valery Gergiev, Ennio Morricone, and others. In 2023, he premiered three flute concertos with I Solisti Veneti, dedicated to him by Academy Award winner Nicola Piovani.

Nino Rota was celebrated during his lifetime primarily as Italy’s leading film composer. His Concerto for String Orchestra, structured in four movements, forms a thematically connected cycle, with musical allusions to Johann Sebastian Bach’s famous Air on the G String discernible throughout. British composer Rachel Portman made history as the first female composer to win an Academy Award for film music, with an oeuvre that includes over a hundred film scores.

Simple Symphony by Benjamin Britten is based on musical themes he composed during his childhood. He dedicated the work to his childhood viola teacher, and it was premiered in 1934 with an amateur orchestra under his baton. The concert will conclude with the Chamber Symphony in C Minor, an arrangement by conductor Rudolf Barshai of Dmitri Shostakovich’s beloved String Quartet No. 8, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the composer’s death.

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