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Auditorium of Milan
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I am enchanted by a large ancient oak, a beautiful cedar, or the famous sequoias that seem to soar limitlessly under the Californian sky. It is said that they can reach more than two thousand years! So for me certain musical forms are related to the morphology of the tree, starting from the roots up to the prodigious and infinite deployment of branches, of arborescence
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This thought by Henri Dutilleux is enough to understand the spirit behind his L'arbre des songes ("The Tree of Dreams"), a Violin Concerto that, in this programme, fits perfectly with Richard Wagner's Waldweben, from Siegfried, the music that accompanies a silent reverie during which the protagonist listens to the murmurs of the forest and the singing of a bird perched on a tree. It is about the refreshment that nature offers to all of us, disctracting us for a moment from the frenzy of our vicissitudes, and which brings us into a state of contemplation in which, suddenly, we feel happy.
