2025/2026 Season

The 2025/2026 Season is Ferrara Musica’s main season, with 25 concerts scheduled between September 2025 and May 2026.

The programme includes fourteen symphonic concerts featuring the best international and Italian orchestras, among which the Chamber Orchestra of Europe conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano and the Filarmonica della Scala with Michele Mariotti. As usual, the season features exciting chamber music performances as well as piano recitals by renowned artists.

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«A few years ago, Ferrara Musica chose to open its concert season by honouring one of the city’s most illustrious citizens: Girolamo Frescobaldi. That noble gesture of remembrance proved so fruitful that it soon revived interest in two other eminent composers associated with Ferrara’s past: Luzzasco Luzzaschi and Giovanni Legrenzi. Having stepped through this historical gateway, Ferrara Musica will then embark on its musical journey with the Filarmonica della Scala, followed by a rich array of orchestras joined by distinguished soloists.
The Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, together with pianist Alessandro Taverna, will perform all five of Prokofiev’s piano concertos. The Chamber Orchestra of Europe, under the baton of Antonio Pappano, will appear alongside violinist María Dueñas in a programme infused with both Slavic and Iberian hues. The Orchestra da Camera di Mantova returns with Louis Lortie in a Mozart-centred programme, while the Camerata Salzburg presents Schumann’s Piano Concerto with the brilliant Gile Bae. The list of orchestras doesn’t end there. The Lucerne Symphony Orchestra will appear with pianist Nikolai Lugansky in Chopin’s First Piano Concerto; the Orchestra della Toscana, conducted by Diego Ceretta, will play Strauss’s Metamorphosen and Mendelssohn’s First Symphony. And even more names will follow: the Toscanini Orchestra with Roberto Abbado; the spectacular Spira Mirabilis playing Brahms’s Second Symphony; the Bamberger Symphoniker with violinist Julia Fischer presenting Suk’s rare and beautiful violin concerto. A particularly special highlight will be the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, conducted by the eminent British composer Sir George Benjamin. Their programme includes Benjamin’s own Concerto for Orchestra, Debussy’s La mer, Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration, and Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. Alongside these symphonic concerts, the season also features a chamber music programme of equal distinction. Highlights include a recital by pianist Grigory Sokolov, a string quartet composed for us by the young Daniela Terranova, a tribute to the legendary duo Canino and Ballista in the name of Ravel, a homage to Luciano Berio by the soloists of the Ferrara City Orchestra, a recital by the remarkable pianist Arsenii Moon, the celebrated Belcea Quartet, and a festive Christmas concert with the Accademia Bizantina. Together, these performances form a rich musical labyrinth in which our audience is warmly invited to lose themselves.»
–Enzo Restagno, artistic director