In Mozart’s time, chamber music with piano participation was dedicated to amateurs, not like the music for strings alone that composers wrote for professionals. With this quartet, our author forces the piano present in the homes of enthusiasts to be played as in public concert, that is, by very experienced hands.
“The Stolen Birth” is an accurate historical, philosophical and psychiatric reconstruction of the origins of violent thinking that has, from time immemorial, conditioned the human reality of woman and child. The possibility of mind healing based on Dr. Massimo Fagioli’s Birth Theory, which speaks of an original equality of human beings, is, moreover, proposed.This is…
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A sentimental journey through 17th-century Rome, Ensemble Mare Nostrum performs music by Alessandro Stradella. The most beautiful arias for soprano from the great composer’s Oratorios and Operas, which, with triosonatas for two violins and basso continuo, trace a path through genres and sonorities particular to the last decades of the Roman seventeenth century.
The music in this program is pervaded by longing and dream.The Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream inspired by William Shakespeare’s play is performed in its own right, as Mendelssohn composed it for orchestra and chorus and conducted it at the age of 17. As many years passed before he was commissioned by the King…
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In the seventeenth century Rome saw a proliferation of multifaceted and surprising artistic productions, in which the great polyphonic school developed close to private academies and operas performed in the public theater of Tor di Nona. An exciting journey from the Middle Ages through Renaissance and Baroque melodies to the folk songs of today. In…
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Download the playbill In the common perception of the family of musical instruments, the viola is feminine and the violin, although higher pitched, masculine. In this concert, voice and instrument alternate as sisters or lifelong friends, in pieces by great composers who, almost all of them, continuously traversed musical Europe and beyond to Russia, in…
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The Trio in E-flat major for piano, clarinet and viola KV. 498, was included by Mozart in his personal catalog on August 5, 1786. According to an unverifiable anecdote, the piece was supposedly composed by Mozart during a game of skittles. This is precisely where its nickname of the Skittle Trio(Kegelstatt-Trio) comes from. Along with…
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Great composers design their works just as architects do. Then, using sounds as building materials, they go on to make them.The space they occupy is an inner space, but like the outer space, in order to communicate meaning, interest and ultimately well-being, the space must become an alternation, or rather a sequence, of different elements.…
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What happens when digital natives meet great Classical music?When the very young who have grown up on bread and social media discover that adolescence has been narrated in all its difficulty in the out-of-time notes of universally recognized artists?Between Lieder and tablets, here comes a love affair.Difficult loves, incommunicability of one’s deepest reality, painful separations,…
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