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The rich atmosphere of cultural fermentation that animated 19th century Salonmusik at the Philodramatic Theatre. The stars are two great soloists, Daniele Manara, First Violin Soloist with La Scala Theatre’s Orchestra accompanied by the magical renditions for the harp of Luisa Prandina, First Harpist with the scaligera orchestra.

They are not only colleagues and first chair musicians with La Scala Theatre’s Orchestra, they are also a tight-knit chamber duo that offers a refined and novel blend of musical sounds. Francesco Manara on the violin and Luisa Prandina on the harp, were the protagonists of the second concert in the cycle of musical matinees that animate Sunday mornings at the Philodramatic Theatre.
THE MUSICAL SALON OF THE 1800s, which is the name of the concert series, is a wide-ranging excursus through the 19th century “that often takes place in a reduced manner,” said Maestro Roberto Porroni, “which can be traced to the definition of musical romanticism; romanticism, more than a period, is a movement or a current is a category of the spirit which results in placing an emotional and imaginative moment at the centre of musical creation. For this reason, I believe it is more appropriate to speak of musical romanticism in the case of this concert.”

The program debuted with Schubert, with three pieces from the Sonatina No. 1 D 384, originally composed for violin and piano in 1816, and had a destination that was mainly for the parlour, which explains the reference to 19th century Salonmusik and all that was included in that genre of musical composition, which animated the parlours of Vienna in search of good music and good food and was given the name of schubertiadi.
A completely different mood followed with Anton Dvorak’s Sonatina op. 100 in three movements, which can be traced to the period during which the Bohemian composer lived in the United States and was inspired by themes and cues taken from popular American music, as well as Fantasia op. 124 by C. Saint Saens which the composer wrote in Bordighera during the period that he was on holiday in Italy and La meditation da “Thais” by Massenet, certainly one of the most transcribed pages in the history of music.
The concert closed with two pieces by Paganini, which are the expression of another type of romanticism, Cantabile in re maggiore – probably the musician’s most beautiful melody – and the Sonata in mi minore n6 opera 3, transcribed from the original version for violin and guitar.

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I CONCERTI DELLA DOMENICA al Filodrammatici
TEATRO FILODRAMMATICI
via Filodrammatici, 1 - Piazza della Scala
20121 Milan
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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Roberto Porroni
Arpa: Luisa Prandina
Violino: Daniele Manara

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F.SCHUBERT: Sonatina n.1 D 384 ( Allegro - Andante - Allegro vivace)
A. DVORAK: Sonatina op. 100 (Allegro risoluto - Molto vivace - Allegro)
C.SAINT SAENS: Fantasia op. 124
J.MASSENET: Meditation da "Thais"
N.PAGANINI: Cantabile in re maggiore - Sonata n. 6 op. 3 (Andante - Allegro vivo e spiritoso)

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