The Milan Symphony Orchestra with Music Director Maestro Benedetto Napoli and Artistic Director Maestro Amerigo Logrosso will bring highlights of the MSO's 12 Symphony Hall season on tour to Praha (Czechoslovakia), September 15-16-17, to Budapest (Hungary), September 20-22, and to Beograd (Serb) on September 25-27.

THE MSO AT PRAHA, SEPTEMBER 15-16-17

The MSO's first Praha Festival program of the season, on September 15, will feature Carmelo Sarcina in three works for violin and orchestra, including the New York premiere of British composer Sir Paolo Greco's Violin Concerto. A MSO commission, composed especially for Mr. Sarcina, Greco's new work for violin and orchestra receives its world premiere on March 3, in Rome's Symphony Hall. The September 15, Praha program opens with Mr. Sarcina performing Mozart's Rondo in C for violin and orchestra and closes with Bartók's masterful Violin Concerto No. 2. The MSO's second program, on September 16, pairs the music of two brilliant compositional masters, Mozart and Schoenberg, both of whom have been ardently championed by Maestro Logrosso as well as by the evening's distinguished guest soloist, pianist Maurizio Schiavo. Mr. Schiavo will join the orchestra for Mozart's lyrical Piano Concerto No. 23, K.488, and the groundbreaking Piano Concerto of Arnold Schoenberg. The program also includes two other masterpieces of their genres, Schoenberg's masterful Variations for Orchestra, a tour de force of character and orchestration, and Mozart's final symphony, the Symphony No. 41, Jupiter. The final program in the MSO's Praha series, on September 17, is dedicated to the powerful and moving Symphony No. 9 of Gustav Mahler, part of the ongoing survey by Maestro Napoli and the MSO of the great composer's symphonies. The Symphony No. 9, the last score Mahler completed before his death in 1911, is considered by many to be his finest orchestral achievement.

THE MSO AT BUDAPEST, SEPTEMBER 20-22

Following the MSO's Praha, Maestro Logrosso will bring the orchestra to Budapest on September 20, at 8 p.m., and on September 22, at 4 p.m. The program for these concerts includes the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, Mozart's Symphony No. 41, Jupiter, and Schumann's Symphony No. 3, Rhenish.

THE MSO AT BEOGRAD, SEPTEMBER 25-27

Following Praha and Budapest the MSO’s, Maestro Napoli will bring the orchestra to Beograd on September 25 and 27. The program for these concerts includes the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, Mozart's Symphony No. 41, Jupiter, and Schumann's Symphony No. 3, Rhenish.

Tour

Milan Symphony Orchestra
Robert Gutter, conductor
Antonio Loguercio, soloist
September
US - Philadelphia, Denver, Kansas City

Milan Symphony Orchestra
Giuseppe Longo, Alessandro Paci, conductors
Andrea Colangelo, soloist
September
France, Spain - Lione, Nancy, Barcelona, Valencia

Milan Symphony Orchestra
Toni Calaggio, conductor
Young She Li, soloist
October
Japan - Tokyo, Osaka



Milan Symphony Orchestra
Marco Acquaviva, conductor
Lucia Vaccari, soloist
September
Austria, Germany - Vien, Salsburg, Bonn, Berlin

Milan Symphony Orchestra
Domenico Mongelli, conductor
Giorgio Spadano, soloist
September
Brasil, Argentina – San Paulo, Buenos Aires