On Friday, March 21st 2025 at 8pm, dame Jane Glover returns to the podium of the Maggio's Main Hall, leading the Maggio Orchestra.

The performance of the "Brandenburg Concertos" by Johann Sebastian Bach is scheduled for the show.

The concert will be later broadcast on Rai Radio 3

Florence, March 18th 2025 - After her debut on the podium of the Teatro del Maggio back in November 2022, the conductor dame Jane Glover returns to lead the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra for a new show in the Maggio's symphonic season.

On the programme, on friday March 21st 2025 at 8 pm - in the Main Hall - an interesting program with the complete performance of the six famous Brandenburg Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach, composer whose conductor is one of the most authoritative performers internationally.

The evening opens with "Concerto n. 1 in F major" followed, in this order, by "Concerto n. 3 in G major", by "Concerto n. 5 in D major" and by "Concerto n. 2 in F major".  The symphonic night ends with "Concerto n. 6 in B-flat major" and "Concerto n. 4 in G major".

Brandenburg was the title given to the six concertos (BWV 1046 -1051) written by the composer in the years when he had settled in Köthen, in the Duchy of Saxony, to work as a kapellmeister and director of chamber music at the court of Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen.

The term "Brandenburg" is linked to the recipient and dedicatee of the concerts, namely Christian Ludwig from Brandenburg-Schwedt, whom the composer met during his stay in Berlin. The official title was a generic Concerts avec plusieurs instruments (Concerts with several instruments), noted by Bach on the dedication dating from March 1721, and will remain so until 1879, The year in which the German musicologist Philip Spitta - one of the greatest biographers of J.S. Bach - gave the compositions the title by which we know them today.

Dame Jane Glover received in 2021 the title of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, on the occasion of the New Year’s Honours granted by Queen Elizabeth II. He made his debut at the Wexford Festival Opera in 1975, directing his own edition of Francesco Cavalli’s L'Eritrea. She then participated in the Glyndebourne Festival in 1979 and was music director of the Glyndebourne Touring Opera from 1981 to 1985. Artistic Director of the London Mozart Players from 1984 to 1991, she was also principal conductor of the Huddersfield Choral Society and the London Choral Society. Since 2002 she has been the music director of Music of the Baroque in Chicago. From 2009 to 2016 she was Opera Director at the Royal Academy of Music.

Last season he conducted Mozart’s Requiem at his debut with the Camerata Salzburg and, during his career, has collaborated with numerous companies in the most important theatres and festivals including the Metropolitan Opera and City Opera of New York, the Royal Opera House and the English National Opera in London, the Glyndebourne Festival, the Staatsoper in Berlin, the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Teatro “La Fenice” in Venice.