Bella Musica Tour 2024 - Lucca and Milano

Seventeen young people and Mozart’s violin.

The Bella Musica Ensemble has been on tour in Italy again since August 25. On August 28, a concert took place in Lucca in the Chiesa dei Sancti Giovanni, where Mozart’s violin, made by Pietro Antonio Dalla Costa in Treviso, Italy in 1764, was played for the first time as part of this year’s tour. Despite the local rehearsals, there was still enough time for the young musicians studying at the Pre-College of the Mozarteum University Salzburg and musicians from Dresden (Carl Maria von Weber University of Music Dresden), Bolzano (Conservatorio Claudio Monteverdi Bolzano) and the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome to explore the city by bike.

The next stops on the Italian tour are Cremona and Milan on August 30, where the ensemble, “Young Ambassadors of the European Mozart Paths” since 2017, will perform in the Chiesa di Sant’Antonio Abate - the premiere venue of Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate. The evening’s program includes the electrifying overture from Le Nozze di Figaro K. 492, the lively first movements of the Bassoon Concerto in B flat major K. 191, the Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major K. 219 and the Horn Concerto No. 4 in E flat major K. 495, the motet Ave verum corpus K. 618 and the third movement of the Sinfonia Concertante K. 364/320. There are also works by Johann Sebastian Bach with the Badinerie from the Suite for Orchestra No. 2 in B minor BWV 1067, by the lesser-known Henri Rabaud with the demanding and virtuoso Solo de Concours for clarinet and orchestra and by Pietro Mascagni with the famous Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana.

(c) Europäische Mozart Wege