Ottavio Dantone has accustomed Filarmonica's audience to refined programs informed by his experience with 17th- and 18th-century music, including in his role as Conductor of the Accademia Bizantina.
Symphony No. 38 bears the name of the city where it was first performed, that Prague where Mozart had moved in search of the success he had lost in Vienna. This was the period when, cut off from society, Mozart was maturing an increasingly personal writing style: the contrapuntal and harmonic enrichment of the Prague foreshadowes the last three symphonies.
It was the British public who had wanted Haydn to stay in London, where he wrote twelve symphonies. No. 103 is the penultimate, nicknamed with the kettledrum roll for the subdued rolled E-flat, of indeterminate duration, that frames the first movement.
Dantone presents for the first time in the season the cantata Berenice che fai?, featuring the voice of young mezzo-soprano Cecilia Molinari.

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