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Jurek Dybaɫ, Conductor

Xavier de Maistre, Harp

Luigi Boccherini: String Quintet in F major, Op. 39, No. 2, G. 338

François-Adrien Boieldieu: Concerto for Harp and Orchestra in C major

Witold Lutosławski: Five Folk Melodies for String Orchestra

Karol Szymanowski: Étude in B-flat minor for String Orchestra, Op. 4, No. 3 (orchestration: Grzegorz Fitelberg) 

Claude Debussy: Sacred and Secular Dances for Harp and Strings

Béla Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances for String Orchestra, Sz. 68, BB 76

Jean Sibelius: Valse Triste for Orchestra, Op. 44 

Jean Sibelius: Suite Caractéristique for Harp and String Orchestra, Op. 100

Johann and Josef Strauss: Pizzicato Polka for Orchestra

 

Camerata Vienna Milano is a new chamber ensemble on the international classical music scene. It brings together musicians from two renowned orchestras – the Vienna Philharmonic and the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala. The ensemble was assembled and is artistically directed by the Vienna Philharmonic double bassist Jurek Dybał, a Pole who can boast a highly successful conducting career in orchestral and operatic music. In Zagreb, he conducted the Zagreb Philharmonic at the Zagreb Classic festival in the summer of 2024, when his Viennese friend, pianist Hyung-ki Joo, was the soloist. A year later, last July, he conducted the Camerata’s inaugural concert in the bilingual South Tyrolean town of Toblach/Dobbiaco. It was there that Gustav Mahler wrote his last symphonies during the last summers of his life. The concert took place at the festival bearing his name, in a region where Germanic and Italian influences have historically intertwined.

 

The aim of Camerata Vienna Milano is to foster performances of works by composers who have defined the cultural identities of Milan and Vienna.  Alongside Dybał, the Milanese side of the ensemble is led by Stefano Curci, hornist of the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala. They are coming to Zagreb accompanied by Dybał’s colleague from the Vienna Philharmonic, one of today’s greatest harpists, Frenchman Xavier de Maistre, in a programme bearing the enigmatic title DANSE? DANSE! 

 

Directly or indirectly, dance rhythms permeate the three concertante harp works: Harp Concerto by the “French Mozart” François-Adrien Boieldieu, Claude Debussy’s Sacred and Secular Dances and Jean Sibelius’s Characteristic Suite. Around the harp solo parts, the ensemble independently interweaves Luigi Boccherini’s Rococo Quintet with Double Bass, Sibelius’s neo-Romantic Sad Waltz, but also the ‘folk’ idioms of the conductor’s homeland in selected movements by Polish composers Witold Lutosławski and Karol Szymanowski, as well as the danceable, hit-like Austro-Hungarian folklore by Béla Bartók and the Strauss brothers.

 

Jana Haluza