Bologna Festival: Orchestra Leonore

About the Event

Moscow’s legendary Gnessin School was founded by three pupils of Vasily Safonov—Scriabin’s teacher—and since the late nineteenth century it has trained many of Russia’s finest pianists. Among them is Alexander Malofeev (b. 2001), whom Italy first encountered at fourteen in a revelation evening at La Scala—during the same months in which Daniele Giorgi founded Orchestra Leonore. Their fulfilled promises meet on the altar of Grieg’s concerto, a manifesto of Nordic Romanticism in which virtuosity never obscures spiritual transparency. Two different yet kindred solitudes inhabit the worlds of the Norwegian composer and of Tchaikovsky, who in his final creative spasms drops the mask in a last confession.

PROGRAMME
Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, “Pathétique”