The concert opens with an ancient song, Oh Roma Nobilis, which pilgrims intoned on arriving in Rome after a very long journey, to sing of its marvelous beauty in an ancestral thanksgiving to the greatness of the cosmos. This alternation of solo singing and polyphony, of individual and collective have given way to sound and…
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Early pieces by Walter Dahlhoff and Ernesto Kohler, where the ethereal sounds of the harp create a harmonious link with the sound of the two flutes, give us late romantic atmospheres. With Frank Martin, Hanns Eisler, and Arthur Honegger, the writing becomes more harmonically daring while maintaining a link to the contrapuntal tradition of the…
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Giordano Ferla, pianist, graduated from the A. Casella Conservatory in L’Aquila. He graduated from the Royal College of Music in London. He is a piano teacher at the Royal Welsh College of Music Junior Conservatoire and director of the Serenata Singers choir in Cardiff. His recital is a journey through three centuries of piano literature,…
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Pianist Ai Watanabe was born in Japan and pursued her studies at Toho High School and University of Music in Tokyo, later specializing at the S. Cecilia Conservatory in Rome. In the first part of his recital a work of brilliant novelty and dynamism, the Piano Sonata no. 30 in E major, op.109, conceived by…
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The proposed program is an exquisite journey through songfulness, melody and expressive sweetness in the compositions of François Couperin, Franz Joseph Haydn ,Johann Sebastian Bach, and on to Claude Debussy.From the veiled and mysterious French Orderes to the expressive monumentality of pieces such as Debussy’s L’Isole joieuse via Bach’s poetic French Suites and the broad…
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When 27-year-old Ludwig Van Beethoven composedSonata Op. 7 No. 4 in 1797, the first “grand sonata” in 4 movements, he had not yet composed the first symphony, but the orchestra is clearly present from the chords of the first movement’s entrance. Op. 10 No. 3 opens with a Presto of great agility. Contrast then Il…
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At a time when being a freelance artist was arduous even for a man, it was even unthinkable for a woman. The Parsifal Piano Trio in its splendid program for the Domenica Classica 2021-2022 series features works by two outstanding female composers who worked in the second half of the 1800s and the early 20th…
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A concert lecture in honor of the great Polish scientist Marie Curie. Madame Curie’s human and scientific journey, the great love affair with Pierre, and the extraordinary determination that led her to the chair of Physics at the Sorbonne University and then to being awarded two Nobel Prizes, the only woman to have received such…
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Just as Walfgang Amadeus Mozart had shown in the Piano Fantasies and Sonatas, beginning with K. 310 in A minor, Ludwig van Beethoven also conceived the composition for the same instrument as if it were intended for the orchestra. Neither Franz Joseph Haydn nor later Franz Schubert had garnered the same sensibility. The thought of…
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