Conductor Johannes Debus made his ROCO debut in INFRARED, a program featuring more than the eye can see—including two radiant world premieres commissioned by ROCO. Triple-threat Grammy-nominated Brazilian-American composer Clarice Assad’s Ode to Carmen Miranda opens, then experience “Nell ‘Inferno”, the blazing first movement of Richard Danielpour’s Symphony in Three Movements After the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. Go galactic in Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres) “…music in the shape of a solar system, a collection of rococo loops that twist around each other within a larger orbit”, before Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 1 with its fiery opening brings the listener back to earth, in time for Mozart’s delectable Divertimento, KV 136—a work written simply to entertain.

 

Program

Johannes Debus, conductor

Clarice Assad, Ode to Carmen Miranda
ROCO World Premiere Commission

Richard Danielpour, Symphony in Three Movements After the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
I. Nell’ Inferno
ROCO World Premiere Commission

Missy Mazzoli, Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)

Felix Mendelssohn, Symphony #1 in c minor, Op. 11

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Divertimento for Strings in D-major KV 136