ORT: Tjeknavorian - Fliedl

On March 19 at the Teatro Verdi in Florence, the Orchestra della Toscana (ORT) presents a concert conducted by Emmanuel Tjeknavorian with Jeremias Fliedl on cello.

Tjeknavorian, among the most interesting conductors of the new generation, current Music Director of the Milan Symphony Orchestra and winner of the Abbiati Prize for Conductor of the Year, returns to the ORT podium with a program that traverses various atmospheres and languages. 
The concert opens with La Morte di Mélisande from the suite that Jean Sibelius drew from the incidental music for Maeterlinck’s Pelléas et Mélisande with a short, intense page sketching sonic allusions and chiaroscuro, where sound becomes intimate and suspended.

The centerpiece of the evening is Joseph Haydn’s Concerto No. 2 for Cello and Orchestra, a perfect example of classical balance in which the dialog between soloist and orchestra speaks of formal elegance and measured virtuosity. Star musician for the event is Jeremias Fliedl, among the most talented cellists of his generation. Born in 1999, he was first Austrian cellist to win an award at the Queen Elisabeth Competition, standing out for his technical precision and tonal refinement. He plays a 1693 Stradivarius entrusted to him on loan.

The concert concludes with Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4, a bright and vital score pulsating with rhythmic surges and sudden changes in energy, capable of alternating lightness and depth in a continuous interplay of tension and surprises.