Noseda In Depth

Plus you won’t be experiencing just another concert, but total immersion in a musical work. Conductor Gianandrea Noseda will be telling you everything you need to know about Luigi Dallapiccola’s captivating, far too infrequently performed Partita. Together with the Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Dutch-Iranian soprano Lilian Farahani, the conductor will be sharing his knowledge of Dallapiccola’s Partita with you before performing the complete work.

The Partita is a highly contrastive four-movement orchestral work. As in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, a soprano sings in the final movement – in this case, a medieval lullaby. The Partita launched Dallapiccola’s international career, just before he converted to the twelve-tone music of Arnold Schoenberg. The work was premiered in 1933.