In January the 52nd season of the AML (Lucchese Music Association) chamber music concerts starts. These end in March and present ten concerts on Sunday afternoon at 5 pm in the ISSM Boccherini auditorium, Piazza del Suffragio. The program also includes fourteen lectures and film screenings.

The opening concert on Sunday, January 17th features the Metamorphosi Trio, one of the best Italian trios with renowned mezzo-soprano Monica Bacelli, who has sung at La Scala, the Vienna Staatsoper, Covent Garden, with the Berlin Philharmonic, the National Academy of Santa Cecilia and the Concertgebouw with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Harding, Riccardo Muti, Antonio Pappano, Simon Rattle and Zubin Mehta. It’s a very interesting program with Joseph Haydn’s Trio in E major Hob. XV: 28 and his arrangement of Scottish songs, and Beethoven’s Introduction and Variations in G major, Op. 121a on “Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu” and Scottish song arrangements.

For info on tickets and program see www.associazionemusicalelucchese.it