André Gallo with the Solisti dell’Orchestra Mozart

On Saturday 12 October at 5 p.m., the Deputy Director of the Piano Academy André Gallo will give a not-to-be-missed concert at the Mozart Hall of the Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna, together with the Solisti dell’Orchestra Mozart, Mattia Petrilli on flute, Mariafrancesca Latella on clarinet, Francesco Bossone on bassoon and Giuseppe Russo on horn.

 The concert opens the autumn season of Il Sabato dell’Accademia with an extraordinary programme: Louis Spohr’s Quintet for Piano and Winds, Opus 52 and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Quintet in B flat major.

A work from 1820, Spohr’s Quintet is considered to be among the German musician’s most significant compositions, due to the variety of melodic invention and the pleasantness of the instrumental mixture.

Rimsky-Korsakov’s Quintet, written in 1876, brings together different compositional styles but with a typically Russian temper, both thematically, harmonically and tonally; this is the result of a period the Russian composer dedicated to the study of chamber music forms.