On March 12 Fabio Luisi will lead the Cleveland Orchestra in a performance of Luca Francesconi’s Cobalt, Scarlet - Two Colours of Dawn for large orchestra. Composed in 2000, the piece has since then been performed by 18 different orchestras in Europe, Asia and in the US, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Fabio Luisi explains how and why he came to select Cobalt, Scarlet: Two Colors of Dawn:
"I asked the orchestra if I could program a work by a contemporary Italian composer, and, happily, they agreed. After doing some research, and reviewing several scores, I chose this work by Luca Francesconi. This composer, a student of Berio and Stockhausen, writes orchestral music that is rich in fantasy. With its tension, color and energy, his music is immediately appealing to audiences. This will be the first time that I conduct Cobalt, Scarlet: Two Colors of Dawn, and it is the first time that the orchestra will be playing this composer’s music."

List of performances
Oslo Philharmonic (11.5.2000) – WP
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (20.9.2000)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra (30.11.2000)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (2.3.2001)
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (19.09.2003)
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai (21.9.2003)
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra (17.10.2003)
Los Angeles Philharmonic (20.11.2003)
Orchestra Philharmonique de Radio France (9.1.2004)
Orchestra Sinfonica G.Verdi di Milano (16.1.2004)
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (23.1.2005)
Gewandhausorchester (10.11.2005)
BBC Symphony Orchestra (27.04.2007)
American Symphony Orchestra (11.10.2007)
SWR-Sinfoniorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg (18.9.2009)
Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música (28.9.2013)
Janáčkova filharmonie Ostrava (12.11.2013)
Cleveland Orchestra (12.3.2015)


Luca Francesconi: work list