Organization

Admin

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra

Conductor

Giordano Bellincampi

Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Robert Ashworth

Viola

In The Italian Style

Auckland

New Zealand

Auckland Town Hall

Great Hall

In The Italian Style: Overture in the Italian Style No. 2 in C Major, D. 591 Schubert (+2 More)

Public

Overture in the Italian Style in C major, D 591

Symphony No. 4 in A major, op. 90

Harold en Italie

Approved

Come and enjoy la dolce vita with Giordano Bellincampi! ‘Blue sky in A major’ was how Mendelssohn described his sun-drenched symphony, an affectionate sketch of a country he knew well.

Berlioz, likewise, drew upon ‘poetic memories formed from my wanderings in the Abruzzi’. His piece is a unique hybrid of symphony and viola concerto. The orchestra’s own Robert Ashworth represents Byron’s wandering hero, Childe Harold, ‘a kind of melancholy dreamer’.

Schubert is the odd one out here: he never visited Italy, although you’d never know it from his cheerful homage to Italian music.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble