After opening the season with La fanciulla del West last January and with Un ballo in maschera coming up soon, Riccardo Frizza returns to the podium of the Orchestra del Comunale di Bologna for a symphonic concert of extraordinary complexity and beauty. The program features Schoenberg’s Sei lieder giovanili and Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor, with soloist Monica Bacelli. The performance takes place on Friday 28th March at the Auditorium Manzoni, Bologna.

“On 28th March, I will be with the orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, performing the treasure that is Arnold Schoenberg’s Sei lieder giovanili in the transcription by Alessandro Solbiati (soloist Monica Bacelli) – said the Mastro a few days leading to the concert. This work was taken by Solbiati from the original Lieder for voice and piano, and recreated for female voice and orchestra, resulting in a version that fine-tunes the dreamlike nature of the work without disrupting its stylistic form. In the second part, we will be performing Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, a work that marks a turning point in the composer’s poetics, with the abandonment of those fairytale, allegorical inspirations that had previously been the lifeblood of his symphonies. With his Fifth Symphony, Mahler expanded space and time to open up a permanent rift in terms of content, definitively breaking previous rules and creating the last, great Western symphonic style”.