Johannes Brahms Symphony n.1 in C minor op.68 14 - 28 November 2017

Project and tour graciously sponsored by BPER Banca for its 150th anniversary.

With Beethoven's music we launched Spira's next ten years! Now it is time to resume our journey through Brahms's orchestral works. We get to the First Symphony after studying and playing the Fourth one in two different projects, nevertheless we are quite intimidated by the sheer size and depth of this composition; it is a long musical journey which Brahms conceived, wrote and re-wrote along the arch of more of 15 years. Starting with the timpani explosion, until the horn's distant call of the last movement, Brahms left us a dense and complex score. It will be rather difficult to read and interpret such an important piece, even only trying to scratch its surface. We wil give it a shot in Formigine and in the concert tour that will lead us from Vicenza to Bologna, through Roma, Siena and Bolzano.