The International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) announce their Award Ceremony and Gala Concert taking place in Milan, on the 18 March at 6:30 p.m., hosted by Orchestra ‘laVerdi’ at Milan’s Auditorium, Largo Mahler. The Award Ceremony will be attended by numerous personalities from the world’s musical life, conductors Riccardo Chailly, Frieder Bernius, John Axelrod and Dmitrij Kitajenko, label representatives from Audite, BIS, Carus, Dux, Harmonia Mundi, Melodiya, Naxos, Ondine, Querstand, Raumklang and Sony Classical, and of course by the ICMA winners 2013, with, at the helm, Maestro Aldo Ciccolini. The Gala concerts following the Ceremony will be conducted by Maestro John Axelrod.
Here is the program of this outstanding event which will be broadcast by numerous radio stations around the world.
Giovanni Gabrieli Canzon primi toni a 8
ca. 1555 – 1612 from ‘Sacrae symphonie’ (Venezia 1597)
Heinrich Schütz Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes a 6
1585 – 1672 from ‘Geistliche Chormusik’ (Dresden 1648)
Giovanni Gabrieli Canzon decima a 8
ca. 1555 – 1612 from ‘Canzoni et sonate’ (Venezia 1615)
Les Cornets Noirs (Gebhard David, cornett, Bork-Frithjof Smith, cornett, Cosimo Stawiarski, violin, Johannes Frisch, violin, Henning Wiegräbe, trombone, Eckart Wiegräbe, trombone, Detlef Reimers, trombone, Michael Hufnagel, trombone, Johannes Strobl, organ)
Georg Friedrich Handel Cara Sposa,
1685 – 1759 from Rinaldo (Version 1711)
Valer Sabadus, countertenor
laVerdi Barocca
Ruben Jais, conductor
Joseph Haydn Cello Concerto C Major No. 1 (Hob. VIIb:1)
1782 – 1809 1st Movement, Moderato
Nicolas Altstaedt, cello
Orchestra laVerdi
John Axelrod, conductor
Erich W. Korngold Violin Concerto Op. 35
1897 – 1957 1st movement, Moderato nobile
Carolin Widmann, violin
Orchestra laVerdi
John Axelrod, conductor
Aaron Copland Clarinet Concerto
1900 – 1990
Laura Ruiz Ferreres, clarinet
Orchestra laVerdi
John Axelrod, conductor
Richard Wagner Isoldens Liebestod S 447
1813 – 1883
Franz Liszt
1811 – 1886)
Aldo Ciccolini, piano
Sergei Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor, Op. 18,
1873 -1949 1st movement, Moderato
Alessandro Mazzamuto
Orchestra laVerdi
John Axelrod, conductor
Stanisław Moniuszko Aria of Stanislaw & Oration of Marcin Pakula
1819 – 1872 from Verbum Nobile
Leszek Skrla, baritone
Orchestra laVerdi
John Axelrod, conductor
Igor Stravinsky Firebird (1919 Version)
1882 -1971 Berceuse & Finale
Orchestra laVerdi
Dmitrij Kitajenko, conductor
Giuseppe Verdi La Forza del destino, overture
1813 -1901
Orchestra laVerdi
John Axelrod, conductor
