The review of the evening with Uto Ughi at the Bellini Theater in Naples, a concert with classical music pieces taken from the CD Notes of Europe.
Wednesday 31 October 2018 Uto Ughi he held a magnificent concert at the Bellini Theater in Naples proposing some passages from his latest album, Notes of Europe. It is an abum with a selection of classical music pieces composed by some gods most important European composers and that Maestro Uto Ughi performs with the violin giving the right value and thickness to the chosen works.
Uto Ughi is considered one of the most important and virtuous living violinists and the evening at the Bellini Theater demonstrated to the present audience that it has filled the theater from the stalls to the last row of boxes, his inexhaustible and undisputed talent. The selection presented got us done travel from Italy to Spain, Via Germany, Poland e France, through a series of songs that are sometimes more cheerful, sometimes more intimate, which have never bored the public, who was delighted by the performance.
The Note d'Euoropa tour has precisely the purpose of approach the general public to a genre, that of the classical music, considered complex and niche, demonstrating that, through a right path, anyone can appreciate and love it.
The concert in Naples had as its protagonist the splendid violin by Uto Ughi, but also the accompaniment on the piano by maestro Andrea Bacchetti it was not for less.
Notes of Europe, a journey among the main European composers
The opening of the concert was the Prelude and Allegro by Pugnani, one of the greatest Italian composers of the 700th century, followed by a stupendous one Romance in F Major of Beethoven. A song that, in some air, recalls the style of Bellini to which Beethoven himself was inspired and who wrote before the deafness hit him.
The first part of the concert ended with one of Beethoven's most popular sonatas, the Spring in F Maggiore, a very cantabile and lyrical aria.
After the interruption, the second part of the evening began in a masterly way with an excursus of songs from Poland, France and Spain. The fourth piece, in fact, was the Rondo Capriccioso by C.Saint Saens, a post-romantic composer of the 800th century, much loved also in the following century. The Rondo, come on Spanish features, was anticipated by a very effective introduction.
The fifth piece was an aria of H.Wieniavsky, considered the Paganini from Poland or even it Chopin of the violin, one of the greatest Polish composers. It was about Polonaise 2 number in D Major, a piece that showed the main characteristics of the composer's style, which created compositions very effective from a virtuosic point of view, poignant e memory lane.
The last piece of the program was a Fantasy on Bizet's Carmen, made by the Spaniard Pablo Sarasate, the Paganini of Spain. A real author's fantasy that combines the main themes of the work in a single instrument, the violin.
At the end of the program, the Maestro wanted to give the audience other magnificent performances, starting with the masterly Paganini's bell. An incredible performance in which Uto Ughi recreated the sound of the bells.
The concert concluded with an aria from Dvorak's New World Symphony.
In short, a unique evening that gave us the honor of listening one of the greatest exponents of the violin in the world, capable of making even a generally more difficult and complex musical genre usable.
