Filarmonica Laudamo Messina

sunday january 29th 2006 at 6 p.m.
Annibale di Francia Theatre

EX NOVO ENSEMBLE

GUSTAV MAHLER
Quartettsatz in A minor (1876)
for piano and strings

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Kammersymphonie op. 9
(transcription by Anton Webern)
for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano

MAX REGER
Serenade in D major op. 141a
For flute, violin and viola

HANNS EISLER
Fourteen ways of describing rain op. 70
for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, violoncello and piano
with a screening of the film
Rain
(directed by Joris Ivens, Holland 1929)

Daniele Ruggieri flute
Davide Teodoro clarinet
Carlo Lazari violin
Mario Paladin viola
Carlo Teodoro violoncello
Aldo Orvieto piano

Ex Novo Ensemble

« Modern music enchants with the Ex Novo Ensemble. In addition to individual talent, the group is impressive for the solidity of the sound and its expressive homogeneity, resulting in profound participation, in a passion placed at the service of the piece and the composer» ( P. Ferialdi ). Radiant and eloquent, the Ex Novo Ensemble (founded in Venice in 1979 by the composer Claudio Ambrosini) has starred at premiere performances and in recordings that are already considered legendary. For the first time the guests of the Filarmonica Laudamo, they present a repertoire of German inspiration chronologically dated between the end of the 19 th century and the early 20 th century, with pieces rarely performed such as the youthful Quartetsatz by Mahler and Reger's Serenade . Eisler's Vierzehn Arten, den Reger zu beschreiben [Fourtenn ways of describing rain] is a must and provide the soundtrack for the film-documentary Regen [Rain] filmed by the Dutch director Joris Ivans in 1929 in the purest Bauhaus style.