On January 30-31 and on the first of February 2014 Riccardo Muti will conduct at the auditorium of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, of which he is Music Director, the world premiere of the work by Giovanni Sollima Antidotum Tarantulae XXI, for two cellos and orchestra. The soloists will be the same Sollima along with Yo-Yo Ma, the greatest cellist active nowadays, a true star of the international music scene.
Sollima, as in his style, builds a work made ​​up of hybrids and commingling of styles and eras. It’s inspired by the music of Salento - reminiscent of the 'Notte della Taranta' of which Sollima has been musical director in 2013 (and still will be in 2014 ) - but it is also a kind of strange story of Italy (especially of the south), which traces the Baroque, the Renaissance, the Middle Ages, passing through dance, and taking inspiration from Matteo da Perugia, Nicola Vicentino, Athanasius Kircher (who, in 1600, studied the tarantismo’ phenomenon) and Leonardo da Vinci, in particular one of his decoding musical puzzle: a love sonnet "hidden" by a sequence of musical notes.