Arches of Santa Cecilia / Piovano / Bae

The concert at the Auditorium Parco della Musica, part of the Chamber Music Season of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, presents a program that forges ties with the British composer Benjamin Britten in the year of the fiftieth anniversary of his death.

The opening piece features Arvo Pärt's Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten for string orchestra and bell, an elegy composed in 1977 in homage to Britten, dominated by a single melodic motif, punctuated by silences. The connection with Britten returns at the end of the evening, with Britten's youthful Simple Symphony Op. 4, written between 1933 and 1934. Between these two rare works by two contemporary composers, the intimate lyricism of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto K414, written in 1782, and Edward Elgar's Serenade for Strings in three movements, composed in 1892.

Conductor: Luigi Piovano
Piano: Gile Bae

Part: Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 12, K. 414
Elgar: Serenade for Strings
Britten: Simple Symphony

Photo: the Auditorium Parco della Musica official site