Ravenna Festival
La Gran Partita
Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini
direttore
Hans-Jörg Schellenberger
F.Schubert-G. Mahler
Quartetto per archi in re minore D. 810
Der tod und das mädchen "La morte e la fanciulla"
nella versione per orchestra d'archi
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenata per fiati in si bemolle maggiore KV 370a
"La gran partita"
The manuscript of Serenade KV370a bears the subtitle Gran Partita, but not in Mozart’s hand. The composition has a more complex and imposing structure than what we usually call “serenade”, and was scored for a peculiarly rich ensemble of 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 basset horns, 4 horns and a double bass. Mozart was probably working under the influence of the orchestra of Mannheim: we know for sure that Quartet KV368b for oboe and string trio was composed for the Mannheim oboist, Friedrich Ramm, and that one of Ramm’s apprentices, F. E. Thurner, transcribed for 2 oboes the Sonata KV374b, originally scored for fortepiano and violin. Hans-Jörg Schellenberger and Martin Gabriel, two great European orchestral soloists, will resume the Mannheimer great tradition.