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After a long pause, due to the coronavirus emergency, Alessandro Crudele returns to Milan this month, for two concerts with the Orchestra UniMi.

The first one will take place on Thursday 16th, July and will be dedicated to the medical community. Since it is an only-invitation concert, it can be followed on streaming by the audience on the website of the University of Milan. The programme features Grieg’s Ases Tod (by the Peer Gynt Suite), Mahler’s Adagietto (from the Symphony No. 5), Puccini’s I crisantemi, Grieg’s Two Elegiac Melodies and Pachelbel’s Canon.
You can now watch the edited video of the concert here. 

On Tuesday 28th, July, the Orchestra UniMi and Alessandro Crudele will participate for the first time in the “Estate Sforzesca”, the great Milanese summer festival offering music, theatre and dance performances in the spectacular setting of the Sforza Castle. Alessandro will conduct two famous symphonies: the Symphony No. 3 in D major by Franz Schubert and – celebrating Beethoven’s 250th anniversary – his Symphony No. 1 in C major. Tickets for this concert are on sale on Mailticket.it. 

Alessandro Crudele is currently giving many interviews in Germany for the launch of LOVE Project 2020, which has been enthusiastically received.

On Monday 11th, he was interviewed by the radio station RBB Kultur. You can listen to the interview here.

Two media features have also just been published: the first one, on Thursday 14th, is a contribution on the radio station Br-Klassik (here).

The second one, on Friday 15th, is an in-depth interview with Alessandro Crudele by the well-known media personality Holger Wemhoff on the website Concerti.de for Klassik Daily.

In addition, a detailed story will be published in the newspaper “B.Z.” next week.
UPDATE: you can read below an extract of the article.

Last week, two of the main newspapers in Italy, “Corriere della Sera” and “Repubblica”, enthusiastically reported the launch of LOVE Project 2020, the world’s largest online orchestra.

In the next few days, the Italian music magazine “Amadeus” will also publish a story about it in its May-June monthly issue.

Moreover on Monday 11th at 4.10 PM (Berlin time), Alessandro Crudele will be “Gast des Tages” (Guest of the Day) on the German radio station RBB Kultur. 

Here below the two excerpts from “Corriere della Sera” and “Repubblica”:

Read the full article here.

Alessandro Crudele, together with his friends Lorenzo Ravazzani (Violist and Fencing Master) and Fabiano Stefanini (Sound Engineer), just launched LOVE Project 2020: Liquid Open Viral Ensemble, the world’s largest online orchestra!

Due to the COVID-19 emergency, the world of live music is suffering a global shut down, and musicians can no longer play together. LOVE Project wants to gather 1,000 musicians from all over the world to create a unique online project. Everyone will record his own part of the Overture from W. A. Mozart’s Magic Flute, and the combination of every video will create an extraordinary performance.

Check out the Liquid Open Viral Ensemble on loveproject2020.org.

This week, Alessandro Crudele returns to Belgrade to conduct the RTS Symphony Orchestra on 13th February, at Kolarac Concert Hall. Crudele, who is the Orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor, will deliver a programme including Schubert’s masterpiece and last majestic work, Symphony No. 9.

The programme also features Anastasis, a contemporary piece by the young Serbian composer Lazar Đorđević, along with the Harp Concerto in C. minor Op. 35 by Albert Zabel – with soloist, the talented Katarina Stanković, one of the winners of the “Young and Successful” RTS Music Production Contest.

A champion of young artists, Alessandro Crudele has consistently devoted his time to working with new musicians and composers throughout his career. He is also a passionate supporter of contemporary music: notably, in his work both with the Orchestra UniMi and the RTS Symphony Orchestra, he has regularly commissioned new music and has conducted several world premieres.

This December, Alessandro Crudele will make his debut with the Bochumer Symphoniker, one of the finest orchestras in Germany, which was founded in 1919. The concert is part of “BoSy on Tour” and takes place on 14^th December, 2019 in Essen. 

The programme features Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 in C major and two concertos with two young and talented soloists: Weber’s Bassoon Concerto Op. 75, with Yuko Suzuki, and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27, with Ping-Lien Wang.  

This month also marks another significant debut for Crudele: he will return to China to conduct the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra in the New Year’s Concert, on 27^th December, in the new and futuristic Shangyin Opera House, which has just been inaugurated by Milan’s La Scala in October.  

Alessandro Crudele will conduct a rich programme, which features: the Overture from Il barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini; Puccini’s Preludio Sinfonico; Jazz suite No. 2 by Shostakovich; Respighi’s Fontane di Roma; and two pieces by Johann Strauss II: Artist’s Life and Unter Donner und Blitz. During the evening, two pieces by Chinese contemporary composers will also be performed: Sketches in Mountains of Guizhou by Zhu Jianer and the Symphonic Overture No. 1 by the living composer Guan Xia. 

Crudele, with the New Year’s Concert in Shanghai, will celebrate the end of his 2019 season, which marked several debuts with important orchestras, including the Orquestra Filarmônica de Minas Gerais in Brazil, where he will be back in 2021, and consolidated his presence in Germany, China and Belgrade as Principal Guest Conductor of the RTS Symphony Orchestra. 

Alessandro Crudele returns to the RTS Symphony Orchestra in Belgrade this month, for a concert on 7th November 2019, commencing his second season with this orchestra as their Principal Guest Conductor. The programme features Mozart’s Flute Concerto No. 2 in D major K 314, with the young rising Serbian flutist Anja Malkov and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2, along with the contemporary piece, Ka oblacima by Milana Milošević.

Crudele’s last concert in Belgrade in March 2019 was praised by the critics:
Sometimes some concerts win us over from the first beat. Such a case occurred at the last concert of the Radio Television Symphony Orchestra of Serbia, conducted by Italian conductor Alessandro Crudele. […] The orchestra clearly responded well to the Italian conductor, who, especially from Bottesini and Dvorak’s units, managed to create striking and eminently edgy ensembles. It was a successful concert with two prominent soloists, a well-rehearsed orchestra and an outstanding young and talented conductor. (Srđan Teparić)

Later this month, on 26th November, Alessandro Crudele will join the Orchestra UniMi in Milan for their 20th season opening.
The programme of the evening, focused on rhythm, features the Overture from Rossini’s Barbiere di Siviglia and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1, while the traditional piece by a living composer will be Emmanuel Séjourné’s Concerto for marimba and strings, with the young and talented Chinese percussionist Shengnan Hu.

In celebration of its 20^th season, the Orchestra UniMi – founded by Alessandro himself – will perform special concerts and events throughout the next year, and a DVD recording will be produced.

This month Alessandro Crudele will be back in Italy: On Friday 13^th September he makes his return to the Festival MITO SettembreMusica with the Orchestra UniMi, in a programme inspired by the continent of Africa, perfectly matching the Festival’s theme for this year: “Geographies”. 

Among two pieces by Camille Saint-Saëns – Suite Algerienne op. 60 and Africa, fantasie for piano and orchestra op. 89 with rising star Italian pianist Alessandro Taverna, the programme features two Italian premieres: excerpts from African Suite by Fela Sowande and Three Nigerian Dances by Samuel Akpabot. 

Since making their extremely successful concert in 2015, the Orchestra UniMi and Alessandro Crudele have received invitations to perform at this Festival every season.

Alessandro Crudele travels to China this month to conduct the Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra for the first time, in the avant-garde city of Hangzhou.

The programme of the concert on 26th July 2019 features Shostakovic’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Chinese soloist Zhang Ti, a complex and deep composition written during the censorship years, and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7, maybe Dvorak’s most ambitious symphony.

A frequent guest in China, Alessandro Crudele has conducted there regularly in past seasons. Most recently, he conducted the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, in November 2018, where he met great acclaim.

As Crudele’s profile continues to grow in Asia, he is scheduled to conduct the Shaghai Philharmonic Orchestra in the New Year’s Concert next December at the Shanghai Symphony Hall.