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Francesca da Rimini

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Francesca da Rimini (fränchĕs`kä dä rē`mēnē), fl. 13th cent., Italian beauty, daughter of Guido da Polenta of Ravenna. She was married by proxy to the hunchbacked lord of Rimini, Gianciotto Malatesta; the proxy, Gianciotto's young and handsome brother Paolo, became Francesca's lover. Gianciotto, discovering their guilt, killed them. The story is immortalized in Dante's Divine Comedy and is the subject of many other literary and artistic works and of Tchaikovsky's symphonic poem.
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30pm AN evening dominated by compositions written by Tchaikovsky includes Stephen Hough performing Concert Fantasia in G minor for piano and orchestra, and cellist Steven Isserlis playing Variations on a Rococo Theme, followed by symphonic fantasy Francesca da Rimini.
SATELLITE PICK OF THE DAY by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
The concert also features Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini and Symphony No 6.
Youth with spotlight on anniversary; Classical by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
Like a good British acting company doing Shakespeare, Russian musicians seem to bring out best of the dark, brooding soul of their music, and dark and brooding it was with excerpts from Tchaikovsky's "The Seasons," as well as his early incidental music for the drama stage play "The Snow Maiden," and the popular "Symphonic Fantasia" by Francesca da Rimini.
From Russia, with great art by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
 
 
 
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