SOUND | "Pomeriggio tra le Muse. La Musica sveglia il Tempo" stagione musicale 2025-2026

Pomeriggio tra le Muse. La Musica sveglia il Tempo is the musical season of Gallerie d'Italia in Vicenza dedicated to fantasy, with concerts from 21 September 2025 to 12 April 2026.

“Music quickens time,
usic quickens us to the finest enjoyment of time […]
its peculiarly life-enhancing method of measuring time imparts 
a spiritual awareness and value to its passage”

Thomas Mann, from "The Magic Mountain", chapter IV

The XXIV Afternoon among the Muses Season - conceived by Ensemble Musagète and promoted by the Gallerie d'Italia in Vicenza - is inspired by a celebrated passage from “The Magic Mountain”, by the great German writer Thomas Mann, a novel which took the author eleven years to write, from 1913 to 1924.

This great creative effort produced one of the most significant narrative works of 20^th century literature. Music plays a very important role in the extraordinary succession of events and topics that enrich the complex plot, often becoming the protagonist of entire conversations between the intellectuals who frequent the Berghof sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. In the fourth chapter of the book, the writer uses the words of the Italian intellectual Settembrini to express an enlightening statement on the power of music: an art that develops and lives in time, marking and punctuating it, creating a movement that differs markedly from the normal flow of events.

The performance of a piece of music in a “live” concert creates a symbiosis between musicians and audience, generating an interruption of the normal passage of time in favour of a different way of articulating events, due to the nature of the compositions performed, to the musicians' state of mind and the listeners' ability to “be transported” into this suspended territory. From this point of view, music (using the words of the erudite Settembrini once more) can “stun”, even “drug” thanks to an almost “suspicious” power. These considerations, deliberately extended to the point of verging on provocation, prompt us to reflect on the fact that every moment of musical time shapes a living and precious experience, unique and unrepeatable.

How can one fail to be enraptured by the magical, dreamy and nostalgic aura of a page such as the Adagio from Mozart's Quintet K 581, or not feel the impetuosity and power of the frenetic Rondo alla Zingarese that concludes the Quartet op. 25 by J. Brahms? The exploration of the world of transcription, a peculiarity of the Ensemble, continues within the season, turning not only to pieces created especially by the musicians who will perform them, but also to elaborations born at the same time as the original work, such as Beethoven's Sinfonia Pastorale transposed for string sextet in which time is seen as the succession of cyclic and natural events.

As successfully experimented in the past, once again this Season, deserving students attending the final years of the Veneto Conservatories are offered the opportunity to participate in some concerts alongside the musicians of the Ensemble.  

Event within the scope of SOUND, the Gallerie d’Italia music project.

Once again this year, the Musical Gallerie. Dialogues in music offers concerts for school pupils and previews of some concerts in sensitive venues in the area.
 

SUNDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2025, 5:00 p.m.
Concert

• J. Brahms (1833 – 1897)
  Quartet for piano and strings no.1 op. 25 in G minor
• G. Faurè (1845 – 1924)
  Quartet for piano and strings no.1 op. 15 in C minor

SUNDAY 26 OCTOBER 2025, 5:00 p.m.
Concert

• W. A. Mozart (1756 – 1791)
  Quintet for piano and winds K 452 in E flat major
• W. A. Mozart (1756 – 1791)
  Sinfonia Concertante for oboe, clarinet, horn,  bassoon and orchestra K 297b in E flat major
  Version for winds and piano
   

SATURDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2025, 6:30 p.m.
Centro diurno senior Veneto, Vicenza
                                       

SUNDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2025, 5:00 p.m.
Concert

• S. Coleridge-Taylor (1875 – 1912)
  Quintet for clarinet and strings op. 10 in F sharp minor
• W. A. Mozart (1756 – 1791)
  Quintet for clarinet and strings K 581 in A major

SUNDAY 14 DECEMBER 2025, 5:00 p.m.
Concert

• L. Berio (1925 – 2003)
  Sequence no.1 for solo flute
• P. Hindemith (1895 – 1963)
  Sonata for flute and piano
• P. Hindemith (1895 – 1963)
  Sonata for oboe and piano
• P. Hindemith (1895 – 1963)
  Sonata for clarinet and piano
• M. Arnold (1921 – 2006)
  Divertimento for flute, oboe and clarinet op.37
• L. Berio (1925 – 2003)
  Lied no.1 for solo clarinet

SATURDAY 17 JANUARY 2026, 4:00 p.m.
Cooperativa nuovo ponte Laghetto                                                                    

SUNDAY 18 JANUARY 2026, 5:00 p.m.
Concert

• W. A. Mozart (1756 – 1791)
  Duo for violin and viola no.1 K 423 in G major
• L. van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)
  Symphony no.6 op. 68 in F major
  Version for string sextet by M. G. Fischer with the participation of two students selected from the Veneto Conservatories         

SUNDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2026, 5:00 p.m.
Concert

• F. Schubert (1797 – 1828)
  Piano trio in one movement D 28 in B flat major
• F. J. Haydn (1732 – 1809)
  Trio with piano Hob. XV:24 in D major
• D. Shostakovich (1906 – 1975)
  Piano trio no.2 op. 67 in E minor

SUNDAY 22 MARCH 2026, 5:00 p.m.
Concert

• J. S. Bach (1685 - 1750)
  Concerto for oboe and strings BWV 1053 in F major
• J. S. Quantz (1697 - 1773)
  Concerto for flute and strings n.161 in G major
• A. Salieri (1750 - 1825)
  Concerto for flute, oboe and strings in C major

SUNDAY 12 APRIL 2026, 5:00 p.m.
Concert

• A. Jolivet (1905 – 1974)
  Sonatina for flute and clarinet
• F. Poulenc (1899 – 1963)
  L’Invitation au château for clarinet, violin and piano
  Musique de scène pour la pièce de Jean Anouilh
• N. Rota (1911 – 1979)
  Trio for flute, violin and piano

A. Kaciaturian (1903 – 1978)
Trio for violin, clarinet and piano

“Pomeriggio tra le Muse” offers the special programme “Gallerie musicali. Dialoghi in musica con le scuole”, the season's initiative for secondary school students. The meetings will take place on the following days: 

Dialoghi in Musica with schools

• SATURDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2025, 10:15 a.m.
• SATURDAY 13 DECEMBER 2025, 10:15 a.m.
• SATURDAY  17 JANUARY 2026, 10:15 a.m.
• SATURDAY  21 FEBRUARY 2026, 10:15 a.m.

These events will offer students a preview of the season's concerts and will be enriched by explanations and guided discussions, enabling a deeper and more personal understanding of the music performed.