director M° Patrizio Esposito

D. Sciostakovic Festive Overture op.96

M. Ellerby Clarinet Concerto*

clarinet soloist Fabrizio Nori

M. Ellerby Paris Sketches*

Saint Germain de Prés - Pigalle - Pére Lachaise

M. Markovsky Instinctive Travels*

G. Rossini L'Italiana in Algeri - Overture

**G.Rossini **Guglielmo Tell - Overture

*thanks to M° Marcello Candela for valuable cooperation on the piano

Dmitri Sciostakovich

Festive Overture op.96

Sostakovic wrote theFestive Overture in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of the October Revolution in 1947, completing its composition in 1954. The premiere performance took place on the thirty-seventh anniversary of the October Revolution on November 6, 1954 at the Bol´soj Theater in Moscow, with Aleksandr Melik-Pasa´ev on the podium. The_Festive Overture_ opens with the brass fanfare(Allegretto) which is followed, always vigorous in its large sound volume, by the Presto in the alternating interventions of the strings and woodwinds. The horn and cello solo exposes a larger theme that is elaborated and then taken up by the entire orchestra. Just before the conclusion another brass band joins the vast instrumental ensemble, increasing its clangor with masculine authority in the Coda. An impressive work, thisopera celebrated to Moscow in 1980 the XXII Olympic Games.

**Martin Ellerby

Clarinet Concerto

After a series of compositions for solo instrument, Ellerby finally wrote an entire clarinet concerto dedicated to Linda Merrick who premiered it on Dec. 3, 2000 at Gateways Performing Arts Centre in Harewood. The concerto consists of three movements with the classic allegro, calmo, rondo alternation. The second half presents more than one moment in which the soloist has the opportunity to highlight himself with free cadenzas, the first half is a tribute to American minimalism, and the final movement is affected by jazz influences making an interesting journey into the language of our times led by the soloist´s skill.

Martin Ellerby

Paris Sketches

"This work is my personal tribute to a city I love, and each movement considers a part of the city, referring to composers who have lived, worked or simply passed from there..."

These are Ellerby's words introducing this work divided into 4 sections each named after a Parisian neighborhood, and so here is Saint-Germain-de-Près followed from Pigalle, then Père Lachaise and finally Les Halles. And here these places are inhabited from echoes of works by musicians associated with them because they precisely lived or worked in one of these places and so we meet Ravel, Strawinsky- Prokofiev, Satie and finally Berlioz. A portrait of the Paris that made and still makes so many people dream because of its vitality and irresistible charm.

**Michael Markowski **

Instinctive Travels

Composer of music for film and symphonic, for orchestra, for band, and for groups from chamber. He came to public attention so young, winning prestigious awards including the Frank Ticheli Composition Contest. His composition Instinctive Travels, is a brilliant excursion through an exciting sense of rhythm and a kaleidoscopic use of orchestra colors. His music is crisscrossed from different influences ranging from musicals to hip hop, an example of a generation that allows itself to be fearlessly contaminated, Markowski returns fresh and energetic music with wholly original results.

Joachim Rossini

L'Italiana in Algeri - Overture

First performed to Venice in 1813, L' Italiana in Algeri was composed in a prodigiously short time, apparently twenty-seven days, and with that ingenious mastery, typical of Rossini, thanks to which the farce was treated with such paradoxical virtuosity and such enthralling comic realism from represent a charge of vitality for the 'opera Italian comic that was now betraying signs of fatigue. The symphony of this'opera constitutes its worthy musical preamble by offering us, after a pleasant initial andante, a sprightly and scherzoso allegro from the listening, not even to say it being Rossini, very pleasant.

Joachim Rossini

William Tell - Overture

Performed in 1829, William Tell is the composer's last theatrical work. The flamboyant and colorful symphony, one of Rossini's best-known compositions, is divided into four parts that include: an andante, an allegro that recalls the raging storm with remarkable effectiveness, a new andante and finally, heralded from ringing fanfares, an overwhelming finale.