Contrabass Concerto - Symphonic Concert - ONPL Season

Conservatoire de Nantes, 4 Rue Gaëtan Rondeau

Symphonic concert with the delicate Overture in C major, this is a beautiful homage that ONPL and Ukrainian conductor Polina Lebedieva pay to Fanny Mendelssohn, one of the few female composers of the 19th century, who, in the shadow of her brother Félix, did not dare publish her works until the end of her life. It is no accident that Giovanni Bottesini was nicknamed the 'Paganini of the double bass'. Pushing the limits of his instrument to reveal its expressive richness, he composed solo parts as formidable as the stunning coda of his second concerto performed here…