Ensemblet La Camerata Strumentale Città di Prato blev til i 1998 fra en idé af Riccardo Muti, som har dirigeret ensemblet ved flere lejligheder. La Camerata er efterfølgende vokset, takket være den kyndige musikalske ledelse, først af Alessandro Pinzauti, derefter af Jonathan Webb, og under kunstnerisk ledelse af Alberto Batisti, til at blive et af de mest repræsentative italienske instrumentale ensembler.
I løbet af de sidste tyve år har orkestret engageret sig i et stadig mere intensivt arbejde for at fremme og formidle musik ved at kombinere produktionsaktiviteter med undervisningsforslag til skoler.
Ensemblet vil spille på Det Italienske Kulturinstitut tirsdag d. 24. maj kl. 19.00, og ensemblet vil her bestå af 19 musikere. Koncerten er en hyldest til filmskaber Federico Fellini med musik af Nino Rota og Nicola Piovani, begge kendte for filmmusikken til Fellinis film.
Som afslutning vil Kulturinstituttet byde på et glas italiensk vin og en buffet af italienske specialiteter, serveret af Ca’ Cucina.
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The Camerata strumentale «Città di Prato» was founded in January 1998 in response to an idea from Riccardo Muti, who has conducted the ensemble on various occasions. The ensemble’s repertoire ranges from the baroque into the twentieth century, and ever since its founding Alberto Batisti is its artistic director. The music director is Jonathan Webb.
The conductors who have performed with the Camerata strumentale have included Roberto Abbado, Antonello Allemandi, Piero Bellugi, Bruno Batoletti, Filippo Maria Bressan, Marzio Conti, Gary Graden, Michael Güttler, Jonathan Webb, Murray Perahia, Luca Pfaff, Günter Pichler, Gabor Takács-Nágy and Franco Rossi, who selected the young orchestra from Prato for his highly acclaimed debut as conductor. All these artists have expressed genuine enthusiasm for the Camerata strumentale.
Guest soloists with the orchestra have included Philip Glass, Murray Perahia, Andrea Lucchesini, Pietro De Maria, Louis Lortie, Pascal Rogé, Alessio Bax, Jin Ju, Herbert Schuch, Mariangela Vacatello, Shai Wosner, Jian Wang, David Geringas, Mario Brunello, Enrico Bronzi, Boris Belkin, Guido Rimonda, Andrea Tacchi, Cristiano Rossi, Gian Paolo Pretto, Daniele Damiano, Paolo Carlini, Karl-Heinz Steffens, Martin Fröst, Walter Seyfarth, Radek Baborak, Chiara Taigi, Monica Bacelli, Fabrizio Gifuni, Tetraktis, Alessandro Lanzoni, Enrico Rava and Gino Paoli.
The orchestra enjoys the admiration and friendship of figures such as Luciano Berio, who attended its rehearsals and performance of his Rendering.
The Camerata strumentale has guested on many occasions with the Amici della Musica of Florence and Perugia, at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Serate musicali di Milano, Teatro Verdi di Pisa, WAM Festival of Rovereto, Accademia Musicale Chigiana. It has played at the Ravenna Festival under the conductor of Riccardo Muti and has been heard in all the major Italian cities. It has performed Haydn’s Missa in tempore belli and Te Deum in the Pisa Cathedral.
As an opera orchestra it has presented Gluck’s Paride ed Elena, Mozart’s Da Ponte operas, Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto, Franz Lehàr’s The Merry Widow, and the premiere of Nadia Boulanger’s La ville morte after Gabriele D’Annunzio.
The orchestra completed two tours in Latin America, with numerous concerts in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Brazil. It has also played in Birmingham. In 2008 it made a long Italian tour, with concerts in Palermo, L’Aquila, Messina, Catania, Bari and in September 2009 she was invited to the Sagra Musicale Umbra, to great public and critical acclaim.
The Camerata’s vocal symphonic repertoire is particularly extensive. It encompasses works such as Mozart’s Requiem, Coronation Mass and Mass in C minor k. 427, Jospeh Haydn’s Te Deum, The Creation, Missa Sanctae Caeciliae and The Seven Last Words of Our Savior, Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem, Johannes Brahms’s A German Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang, Händel’s Oratorios, Bach’s Passions and Mass in B minor, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Choir, Faure’s Requiem and the Chichester Psalms by Bernstein with the New College Choir of Oxford at the Sagra Musicale Umbra in 2011.
In addition, its repertoire features numerous symphonies and concertos by Haydn, Mozart, Schumann, and the complete symphonic cycles of Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert and Mendelssohn.
In 2007, the Camerata strumentale had the privilege of hosting in its season Claudio Abbado and the Mozart Orchestra.
Various concerts by Camerata strumentale have been broadcast on the third program of the RAI and on Rete Toscana Classica and other private stations.
It has recorded Haydn’s Missa in tempore belli, Te Deum and The Seven Last Words of Our Savior under Alessandro Pinzauti. It has released a CD with Ouvertures, a CD with works by Luigi Cherubini, and a production featuring works by Mozart and Tchaikovsky in which it performed with the pianist Pietro De Maria. A recording of symphonic dances under the conductor Antonello Allemandi and a release with symphonies by Mozart under Jonathan Webb.
In 2009, one of the most important Italian newspaper «La Repubblica» has released a DVD and a CD with the lecture-concert and performance of Symphony no. 8 “Unfinished” by Schubert directed by Riccardo Muti. In January 2010 was published by CPO a CD with music by Gian Francesco Malipiero directed by Marzio Conti, met with flattering judgments by international critics. In 2015 it appeared for the label Brilliant a recording of Ferruccio Busoni’s Concertino for clarinet, conducted by Jonathan Webb, with David Bandieri solo.