On September 6th, last week, the Philharmonia Orchestra under John Axelrod brought ‘The Imagined Forest’ to the stage of the world-renowned Teatro alla Scala, Milan, in a programme with Grieg and Rimsky-Korsakov as part of MiTo SettembreMusica.
The international music festival that has brought the cities of Milano and Torino together for grand annual showcases of musical events since 2007, featured 116 concerts with world renowned international guests where performances are hosted in some of the most spectacular locations across the month of September. The festival opened in Lingotto, Torino on the previous night of September 5th with a concert at the Auditorium Giovanni Agnelli of the same programme, which you can read about here.
A great big thank you to Artistic Director Nicola Campogrande, everyone at MiTo SettembreMusica, Auditorium Giovanni Agnelli, Teatro alla Scala, and of course to John Axelrod and the Philharmonia Orchestra for bringing The Imagined Forest to Italy to be a part of such a wonderful festival and concert, and to the audiences for their enthusiastic listening! It was a joy to witness the music.
You can also learn more about The Imagined Forest here.
“In The Imagined Forest la compositrice dipinge con delicatezza e penetranza l’atmosfera magica e surreale di una archetipica, simbolica foresta incantata, ispirandosi alle variopinte, fantasiose installazioni immersive di collage di Clare Celeste Börsch, artista americana residente a Berlino. Il brano, della durata di circa un quarto d’ora, dipana sonorità via via liquide, puntute, corpose, cangianti, fulgide, cristalline”
”In The Imagined Forest, the composer paints with delicacy and penetrance the magical and surreal atmosphere of an archetypal, symbolic enchanted forest, inspired by the colourful, imaginative immersive collage installations by Clare Celeste Börsch, an American artist living in Berlin. The piece, lasting about a quarter of an hour, unravels sounds that are gradually liquid, sharp, full-bodied, iridescent, bright, crystalline”
