During the concert of the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra under the baton of the esteemed conductor and composer Francesco Bottigliero, various compositions from the 20th and 21st centuries will be performed. The repertoire will be filled with the names of such composers as Ottorino Respighi, Anton Webern and Marcel Chyrzyński.

“Not succumbing to despondency, like a gourd to go with the flow of the river, that’s what we call the world that is transient’ – this is a quotation from Asai Ryōi's Tale of the Passing World. Chyrzyński was inspired to write Ukiyo-E by Japanese woodcuts of the same name – images of the transient world. The work is in fact a deconstruction of this woodcut tradition – it consists of ten movements, the first of which is its final version. The following ones are the components of the first image, symbolizing the individual colorsu of ukiyo-e. In the compositions by Ottorino Respighi and Francesco Bottigliero, the musicians will turn towards the past.The Antiche danze ed aria per liuto – Suite No, 3: 16th and 17th Centuries from 1931 is an expression of Respighi’s interest in lute music from the turn of the Renaissance and Baroque. However, the composer paints it in his own way, full of colours characteristic of his idiom. Bottigliero in the Variazioni su un tema di Fauré pays tribute to one of the leading French composers – Gabriel Fauré. The concert will be crowned his Bodensee Suite, but before that, we will also hear another work by Bottigliero: the Music Continues.

Webern composed the Langsamer Satz in June 1905, but the work was first publicly performed nearly sixty years later in Seattle. This music was intended to reflect the composer’s feelings for Wilhelmine Mörtl. The inspiration came to him after one of the hiking trips around Lower Austria together with his beloved. The work, originally composed for a string quartet, tonights will be performed by a string orchestra.