Lerici Music Festival: two world premieres inspired by Shelley

Alison Balsom and Gianluca Marcianò

Constanza Principe

By Stephen Pritchard, 26 July 2022

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“the piano crashed in with questing, scrambling figures as the orchestral writing grew in intensity”

Reviewed at Rotonda Vassallo, Lerici on 25 July 2022

Carrara, Music, when soft voices die (World premiere)

Hummel, Trumpet concerto in E major (or E flat major)

Winkler, Concerto no. 2 for piano and orchestra “Percy Bysshe Shelley” (World premiere)

Alison Balsom, Trumpet

Constanza Principe, Piano

Orchestra dell'Emilia Romagna Arturo Toscanini

Gianluca Marcianò, Conductor

A Don Carlo of yesteryear at the Teatro Valli in Reggio Emilia

Laura Servidei, 19th November

An almost completely Italian cast gives life to a very successful Don Carlo currently touring Emilia Romagna.

****1

Dresden in love: Vogler, Wellber and the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini

Laurence Vittes, 8th June

The Dresden Music Festival public renew their love for Jan Vogler, who is joined by festival debutants from Parma.

*****

Lamb to the slaughter(house): rare outing for 1857 Simon Boccanegra

Mark Pullinger, 25th September

Boccanegra butchered in Parma? Only in the sense that director Valentina Carrasca sets the opera in an abattoir...

****1

Turbo-charged Trovatore: Verdi at full throttle in Fidenza

Mark Pullinger, 24th September

All you need to stage Trovatore, according to Enrico Caruso, are “the four greatest singers in the world”. The Verdi Festival may have found the four loudest...

***11

A traditional Attila at the Verdi Festival in Parma

James Imam, 30th September

Traditionally, Italy's most unforgiving loggionisti are reputed to reside at Parma's Teatro Regio. Thankfully for the cast, they appear to be a dying breed.

***11

A traditional Il corsaro revived in Piacenza

Renato Verga, 6th May

In this Verdi's popular work we find a paroxysm of affections that is consonant with Matteo Beltrami's energetic conducting.

***11

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Stephen Pritchard

Stephen Pritchard began singing as a treble at the age of eight and progressed to become a tenor in Portsmouth Cathedral Choir, the Gibbons Consort and now the English Chamber Choir. Writing about music has been at the core of his 40-year career in journalism, chiefly at the Observer. He has been known to play a pretty mean jazz double bass.

Lerici Music Festival: two world premieres inspired by Shelley... and Alison Balsom on top form