THEthe Good Friday of Easter 2025 we pass With the traditional concert of the Rai National Symphony Orchestra. The appointment is for Tonight live on Rai 5 at 9.15 pm. To direct is Ottavio Dantone. A wonderful opportunity that fits in the rich Rai schedulewith musical events entirely dedicated to Easter holidays such as The Rai 1 concert directed by Zubin Mehta.
Easter 2025: the Rai 5 concert on Good Friday
“Christmas with yours, Easter with whoever you want” is an ancient proverb that goes well with the choice to dedicate space to the beauty of the symphonies. The Rai Orchestra chose the famous composition of Franz’s 1787 Joseph Haydn The last seven words of Christ on the cross (lett. The seven last words of Christ on the cross). The Austrian musician was inspired by the meaning of the last sentence that the son of God pronounces before he died. “My God, my God, why did you abandon me?”
The work was commissioned from the canon of the cathedral of Cadiz To accompany Good Friday and Passion’s events. A complex work composed following the sacred symbolism: 7 Sonata lens lasting 10 minutes each. As a couple with an introduction, Haydn has inserted a great endingan intense and expressive musical contrast called earthquake. The representation of the culmination of God’s pain in the face of the death of the Son at the hands of men.
“Easter 2025” Ottavio Dantone directs the Easter concert on Rai 5 (ANSA)
Easter 2025: the Rai 5 concert directed by Ottavio Dantone
Ottavio Dantone is a conductor highly appreciated, with a deep bond with the Rai orchestra, which hosts it regularly. Highlymbalist is born and then choosing the orchestral management. He is the director of the Byzantine Academyestablished in Ravenna in 1984. The repertoire of the group of professionals is the musical one of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Dantone It is one of the most appreciated interpreters of ancient and baroque music. He has worked in theaters around the world such as the Madrid theater and the Milan Scala. This evening it will be At the Rai auditorium Arturo Toscanini of Turin for the direct of Haydn’s masterpiece.
During the execution, a moment before each sonata, the voice Out of the field of the television conductor Mario Acampa (Eurovision Song Festival) will scan the seven words. According to the Gospel of Matteo, they would have been The last whispered by Jesus before dying on the cross.
Easter 2025: the Rai 1 concert on Good Friday
Musical events continue on Rai For Easter 2025. Tonight on Rai 1 at 23.55 is transmitted Zubin Metha’s concert from the Cathedral of Orvietorecorded on March 29th. The Indian conductor directs the prestigious Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Two works are scheduled of great character. The first It is the execution of the Concert in La Maggiore for clarinet and KV 622 Orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The second is the Symphony n.5 in do minor op 67 by Ludwig van Beethoven.
Beethoven completed the symphony n. 5 in 1808dedicating it to two dear friends and admirers, the Razumovskij von Lobkowicz principles. Despite being one of the best known works, At his debut he was not immediate success. Yet the introduction with the 4 serious notes is known all over the world.
Defined the sArab of fate, It has many symbolic and allegorical references. His sound speaks of the tough struggle between man and uncertain fatebetween the wishes of the fate and the resources of free will. Vision It is connected to the influence of the Enlightenment philosophy of the period.
Mozart wrote the Concert in La Maggiore In 1791, Two months before dying. The work It was designed for his friend Anton Stadler, skilled clarinet player, to whom he dedicated other symphonies such as the Quintet with K. clarinet 581. The autograph manuscript was lost. It remains a more or less faithful version but not completely authentic, adapted to the modern clarinet and published in Paris in 1801.
“Easter 2025”: Zubin Metha directs the Orchestra del Maggio Fiorentino (Gettyimages)
Zubin Metha, Holy Friday concert
Zubin Metha’s career, one of the most important orchestra directors of our time, It is long and very prolific. He leaves his medical studies to pursue the call of music. In a few years, he manages to direct the Berlin Philharmonic. From 1985 to 2017 he was the main director of the Florentine Maggio.
In 2006 he was proclaimed life music director. The collaboration with Metha continues prolificly: in June will go on the podium e with the Florentine Maggio will perform A Paul Hindemith’s Ouverture, The Concert in Re Maggiore op. 61 by Beethoven and the Symphony op. 53 by Richard Strauss.
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