The Taormina Arte Festival presents an appointment with classical music of absolute prestige on Tuesday 25 July: in the evocative setting of Trevelyan Park, I Solisti Aquilani with Daniele Orlando will be the protagonists of a concert where, the introduction of Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik will be followed by the short on Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and the performance of the famous concert taken from the opera 8 The trial of harmony and invention.

The project, entitled “A New Season”, stems from the need to reflect and make people reflect on the role of man within the environment, thus offering the public an interpretative key that goes beyond a traditional execution. Vivaldi describes, with his sonnets and his music, an uncontaminated nature. The bitter vision of how Nature has been reduced by an often too invasive intervention by man is quite different. This interpretation offers a sound “chiaroscuro”: on the one hand nature as it was, and on the other as what we too often have before our eyes: violated.

“Vivaldi again. The Four Seasons again. To say what hasn’t been said yet. To play them as they have not yet been played”, explains Maurizio Cocciolito, artistic director of the Solisti Aquilani, “The eye of the world as an aseptic container to read life in the passage of time, the conquests, the catastrophes, the wonders, the aberrations, marked by the succession of seasons, impassive but suffering, to record climatic and social changes. Thus the face of the world changes, thus men change. Thus the eye that looks, dulled by a detached retina that tiredly and sadly records progress and regression, evolution and involution. When the first printed edition of the Seasons came out it was 1725. Vivaldi lived in Venice, he was 47 years old, he was famous, a perfect interpreter of the spirit of the time and of the so-called “program music” which wanted to tell and describe nature in the alternating months. Three centuries of uninterrupted success in concert halls around the world, analyzes and debates on the appropriateness of philological or alternative performances, critical reviews and rivers of ink, up to the Solisti Aquilani and their first violin, Daniele Orlando, sublime interpreter, who they appropriate Vivaldi’s masterpiece, making it an original musical jewel and are now preparing to enrich it with a further meaning that goes beyond the music while respecting its circular dimension as a starting and finishing point”.