“Inside the Clouds” is the title Charlie Siem chose for the recital we discuss in these notes. It is a peculiar title for a recital, and we do not know the reason for this choice. But perhaps we can see the concert program as a firmament in which we can glimpse the faces of the…
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In the courts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, vocal and instrumental music fulfilled a fundamental function in accompanying social occasions, from banquets to parties to elaborate performances. The compositions of Marco Facoli, Francesco Bendusi, Giovanni Picchi, Jacopo Peri and Giuseppino Cenci, guide us in exploring the dialogue between the gestures and affections of language…
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“Interminati spazi” is the title of the concert chosen by the Belosio-Tirone duo (violin and piano) as an open homage to the famous Leopard verse and aims to return us to the wealth of musical and temporal possibilities that this type of formation can offer. Starting with Mozart’s Classicism, it will lead to Goffredo Petrassi,…
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“Armonie d’autore,” the title of the concert, offers us a refined and highly sought-after journey within a less common but extremely rich page of music and brilliant authors belonging to classicism. They fall between Baroque and Romanticism and are composers who lived mainly during the 1700s. The Accademia Antica Trio, with its instrumental ensemble for…
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Third appointment of the “Domenica Classica” review with Giordano Ferla, a pianist of great interpretative skills and already a guest of Domenica Classica, who surprises us once again with the variety and commitment of the program he offers the Roman public this year. The program consists of two parts, classical-romantic and twentieth-century. Opening with the…
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The second event of the “Domenica Classica” review hosts on the stage of the Sala Umberto Theater the Pace-Poli Cappelli duo, considered one of the most important guitar duos internationally, who will present music by Piazzolla, Albéniz and Gangi. Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla (Mar del Plata, March 11, 1921 – Buenos Aires, July 4, 1992)…
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Love and death: a combination dear not only to the literature and music of the Romantic era, but known as far back as the Baroque era and, even earlier, in Roman history. These two elements, whose memory is lost in the mists of time, are at the center of the program presented by the quartet…
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The proposed program is a refined journey through melody and expressive sweetness in the compositions of F. Couperin and F.J. Haydn, which open the concert. This is followed by one of F. Chopin‘s mature works, Polonaise-Fantaisie Op.61, written in a “talking” narrative style and as direct as a veristic drama text. Then three Preludes by…
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DuoKeira Piano Duo formed by Michela Chiara Borghese and Sabrina De Carlo The program will feature Claude Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, considered one of the masterpieces of musical impressionism, and Igor’ Fëdorovič Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du printemps, a work destined to remain a milestone in 20th-century musical literature. “The evening at the Champs…
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