Soloist: Theo Plath, bassoon / Conductor: Rubén Dubrovsky / Neubrandenburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Béla Bartók: Divertimento for string orchestra
Nino Rota: Bassoon concerto
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 94 in G major Hob. I:94 ("With the timpani roll")
An almost pictorial listening experience awaits visitors in January. Béla Bartók "never wrote so generally comprehensible, never knew how to summarize the results of his entire life as he did at that time", said the musicologist Bence Szabolcsi about his compatriot's Divertimento, composed in 1939.
"In Nino Rota's bassoon concerto, you immediately realize why Rota achieved world fame as a film music composer: his musical language is incredibly pictorial, a scene appears before your inner eye as if by magic at every moment of the concerto: perhaps a fast train journey in the first movement? The lonely lover in the second movement? A folk festival with all kinds of dances in the variation movement? There really are no limits to the imagination," says Theo Plath.
One of Joseph Haydn's special trademarks is his musical humor. The sudden timpani roll in the Andante of his 94th Symphony is evidence of this.
