Pannon Philharmonic

Conductor

Paolo Paroni

Soloist

Gergely Bogányi

piano

About the Programme

It is hardly surprising if during a guest performance of an Italian conductor, there are Italian masterpieces in the programme. Paolo Paroni, who is a returning guest in the number of Central European countries -Croatia, Slovenia, and Bulgaria- comes to the Palace of Arts with a programme including compositions that are rarely heard at the Hungarian concert halls; he picked some pieces from his native country’s music of almost two centuries. This time, the only exception would be Mozart's Piano Concerto in D major, although it is also a concerto, as one of the best-known example of the genre concerto grosso: Corelli's Concerto in D major from the op.6 series. Related to the same genre, in fact almost simultaneously conceived are Alfredo Casella's programme music work  called orchestral rhapsody, the Italy (1909) and Ottorino Resphigi’s symphonic poem, one of the celebrated highlights of musical impressionism, the Fountains of Rome (1916). Both composers were members of the group called generazione dell'ottanta - the composers’ group, born in the eighties of the 19th century, that tried  was to open up to the latest trends and successfully attempted to connect the Italian music into the bloodstream of European modernity.