The recital by pianist and composer Lorenzo Porta del Lungo explores the deep connection between music, literature and visual art. The program opens with a selection of Felix Mendelssohn ‘s “Lieder ohne Worte.” These pieces, icons of early Romanticism, are a tribute to melodic emotionality: although they lack lyrics, they communicate deep feelings, alternating moments…
The concert offers a sonic journey through very different languages and sensibilities, all enhanced by the brilliant and versatile ensemble of flute, violin and piano. It opens with Ian Clarke‘s Maya, a piece that combines extended technique and contemporary lyricism: suspended atmospheres, unexpected timbres, and evocative writing that explores all the nuances of the modern…
The program moves among the most important Italian authors, all born, except Monteverdi, in the latter part of the 1600s. M. Veracini, a great violinist, born in Florence, was celebrated and in his travels in Europe aroused wonder, but in some cases also much envy for his unmatched bravura. He met Giuseppe Tartini, another violin…
The program offers a journey through two centuries of music, weaving together timeless masterpieces and contemporary pages designed for the intimate ensemble of flute with string trio. It opens with theOverture from Rossini‘sBarber of Seville , reinterpreted in Küffner ‘s chamber version . This is followed by Mozart‘s Quartet in C major K 285b, a…
“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…
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…
“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,…
“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…
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 to the Roman public this year. The program consists of two parts, classical-romantic and twentieth-century. Opening with…
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) was undoubtedly…
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…
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…
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…
The choice of the concert’s title “Harmonies of the Author” is a reminder of the beauty of the very interesting pages of composers belonging to the classicism that lies between the Baroque and Romanticism, in the second half of the eighteenth century with appendix in the first part of the nineteenth century. The Ensemble Accademia…
Sunday, February 11, 2024 – 10:30 a.m. Presentation of Domenico Fargnoli‘s new book, Beyond the dark matter, Form editions, 2023 Sala Umberto Theater in Rome Present along with the author are: Paola Binante, photographer, ISIA Urbino lecturer; Paola Bisconti, psychiatrist, psychotherapist; Michele Casamonti, gallery owner; Monica Martella, reader; and Lorenzo Porta del Lungo, musician, president…
P R O G R A M M E Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) Suite No.5 Prélude, Allemande, Courante,Air with Variations “The Harmonious Blacksmith” The Harmonious Blacksmith(in the original English: The Harmonious Blacksmith) is the name by which the last movement of Suite No.5, the aria with variations, for harpsichord is popularly known. Robert Schumann (1810-1856)…
The concert opens with an ancient hymn, 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…
The program of the recital “Tout de suite” by DuoKeira, formed by Michela Chiara Borghese and Sabrina De Carlo, tells of an intellectual and artistic debate between authors at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries; thus taking the audience into an experimental, vivid and dreamy musical dimension. The title, which literally means “right…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
In the group photo exhibition “Aisthesis – Perception through the Senses,” held at the cozy Vaccheria Nardi Library of the City of Rome from June 24 to July 7, 2017, the Association for the first time promoted a photo exhibition with images created by its members. Antonella Di Gianfelice, Ludovica Iuè, Antonino Scordo and Marco…
On March 14, 2018, the same day Albert Einstein was born, the great cosmologist Stephen Hawking left us due to the serious illness that accompanied him for most of his life: an illness that prevented him from moving his body but never his mind and thought. His scientific discoveries about black holes and the book…
The Eliseo Classica for Antarctica project was carried out by the Associazione Suono e Immagine between November 2012 and May 2013, at the Teatro Eliseo in Rome, in collaboration withENEA, the National Museum of Antarctica and National Geographic Italy, with the main objective of promoting the dissemination of culture, art and music through artistic-cultural initiatives…
On Thursday, Nov. 25, 1915 , in a lecture at the Prussian Academy, 36-year-old Albert Einstein presented the famous Equation of General Relativity, preceding the great mathematician David Hilbert by a few days and formulating a new theory of gravitation capable of upsetting the very concepts of Space and Time.Exactly 100 years later, the Sound…
Nueva España, present-day Mexico, was in the seventeenth century an extraordinary meeting point of very different cultures and traditions, that of the Spanish and Portuguese colonizers, that of the American Indians, and that of the slaves brought in droves from Africa. This state of affairs produced a most peculiar combination of languages, music, rhythms, instruments,…
“Drugs, Misuse and Addiction” and “The Internet the Dangerous Friend.” City of Salerno – City Hall – Hall of the Banner The Dafni and Cloe series returns to Salerno: in the Hall of the Gonfalone at the City Palace, the presentation of the first two volumes that together tell of dangerous addictions, borderline situations for…
A text that with an innovative approach helps children understand the causes of a malaise that mysteriously appears and which they think they control through substance use. Altering their feelings, in order not to experience the pain resulting from disappointing human relationships, they seek well-being in ephemeral and sometimes deadly paradises. The presentation of the…
III. Vol. of the Daphnis and Chloé series City of Salerno – City Palace – Gonfalone Hall In recent years, the number of boys and girls dropping out of school in Italy has increased. Our idea is that behind dropping out of school there is a strong malaise that leads to an undoing that kids…
In September 2016, a new presentation of the book Bambini Vittime, published by Liguori Editore in Naples, is held at a library in Rome. In the central Nelson Mandela Library, directed by Alessandra Langellotti, the authors of the volume talk with Cristina Andrizzi, a medical doctor specializing in clinical psychology and psychotherapist, and Gabriella Terenzi,…
Just because woman by Melita Cavallo Just because she is a woman is the title of Melita Cavallo’s book, published by Mursia, which was presented in webinar mode, on Zoom platform, on Saturday, Nov. 21. The conference by the Sound and Image Association is coordinated by Dr. Ludovica Costantino. In the book, the author, a…
II. Vol. of the Dafni and Cloe series Teatro Bellini – Naples In this second volume of the Dafni and Cloe Series, the highly topical subject of digital technology is addressed from various perspectives: from the importance of this medium for increasing knowledge to hidden issues in it such as addiction, cyberbullying, compulsive gaming or…
II. Vol. of the Dafni and Cloe series Nelson Mandela Library – Rome The Internet is a great resource; it is an expression of borderless and uncensored freedom that increases the possibility of confrontation and knowledge. Massimo Fagioli’s phrase, “there is no freedom without identity,” helped us understand what generates pathological phenomena such as cyberbullying,…
III. Vol. of the Dafni and Cloe series Nelson Mandela Library – Rome The third volume in the Daphnis and Chloé series. addresses the serious problem of school dropout, a black hole into which children fall who have lost their relationship with the healthy sociality that the educational institution is supposed to represent. The breakdown…
I. Vol. of the Daphnis and Chloé series Vaccheria Nardi Library – Rome A new presentation of the valuable Volume Drugs, Use Abuse and Addiction of the Daphnis and Chloé Series. In the Vaccheria Nardi Library setting, speakers include Ludovica Costantino, psychiatrist and psychotherapist Dori Montanaro, psychologist and psychotherapist Roberta Provvedi, biologist, associate professor at…
The conference addresses the cultural background that conditions the interhuman relationship, particularly the male/female and adult/child/adolescent relationship, and too often perverts it into a human relationship of material and psychological exploitation and destruction. This phenomenon is dramatically evident today in the relationship with people of other cultures and backgrounds. The reality of “forced migrations” involving…
On October 21, 2016, the book “The Stolen Birth. The Origins of Violent Thought about Women and Children” published by Liguori Editore and edited by Ludovica Costantino, psychotherapist and psychiatrist. Present in addition to Ludovica Costantino are the other two authors of the book, Fina Rumore, speech therapist, and Fulvia Cigala Fulgosi, historian and philosopher.…
A great and very busy artist was Robert Schumann. Since he was a boy he had studied the most modern poets and writers and took part in the great movement of Young Europe, against the restoration of the ancient monarchical regimes and their old cultures. As a student, in his room in Leipzig, he had…
II. Vol. of the Dafni and Cloe series meetings with students, teachers and parents Swiss School of Rome In the splendid setting of the Swiss School in Rome, two meetings with young people to talk about topics that are important to them, their teachers and parents. A double appointment with the books of the Dafni…
“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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
Rome, early decades of the 17th century, Fuga, Bernini, Borromini: in an urban fabric teeming with obelisks, divine sinuosities wrested from stone and daring perspectives, the miracle of beauty of the eternal city is once again fulfilled as it becomes a place of choice for composers, musicians and singers, attracted by the possibilities of fortune…
Download the playbill In the second edition of Lieder & Tablet, a pair of excellently educated young people realize that the History of Music Composition is absent from their education. Invited to a concert of Lieder, they find that those lyrics do not leave them indifferent at all, and that that music makes them feel…
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Three extraordinary artists of international caliber for a journey through the intense atmospheres of late Mitteleuropean Romanticism: like sweet melodies, these sounds of yesteryear still attract us today and blossom like spring buds, intoxicating us on a February Sunday with their fragrance. Hungarian Dances #1 Hungarian Dances #3 Zwei Gesänge op.91
Robert Schumann’s quartet is the only one with piano, which has a role as a solo instrument, supported by a string part-play conceived as an orchestral ensemble. Mozart’s Dissonances is the great artist’s most astonishing quartet, characterized by a slow introduction, unique in its genre, and conducted in a harmonically futuristic manner for the time.
A journey of discovery through late 17th-century Rome.An expressive form that draws on Baroque instrumental virtuosity, the Triosonata lives again in the concert of the Italian-Polish quartet, which makes the dialectic between cultural roots its creative force.
It is hard to say when this happened, but at some point the sea, this endless perpetual motion, this unfathomable depth, became a female image. It is natural for musicians to see in the image of the sea creative freedom, the infinity of possibilities, the perpetual movement of imagination. And so, every time they tell…
The pieces on the program are based on the repertoire of “city” gypsy violinists-which inspired, in the late 1800s, even Franz Liszt-and from the traditional folk music of remote villages, often isolated for centuries.Joy, sorrow, rebellion, and a desire for freedom are the feelings that are released through wonderful melodies and rhythms of frenetic dances.
Mozart composed Piano Concerto No. 12 in 1782 for a Vienna audience, a year after he left Salzburg following his break with Archbishop Hyeronimus Colloredo. The change also had an effect on his writing, which was animated by a renewed stylistic freedom from the wishes of the patron, allowing Mozart to show off his technical…
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,…
Described by critics as one of Italy’s best-known and most admired guitarists (CD Classica), Flavio Cucchi has given hundreds of recitals in America, Europe, Asia and Australia, participating in radio and television broadcasts by the world’s leading broadcasters (BBC, RAI, ZDF, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Televisa Mexico, Television Corporation of Singapore, Radio Praga and others). Many composers…
Francois Couperin, a Parisian author, is considered the greatest harpsichordist in history along with J.S.Bach and Domenico Scarlatti. His great instrumental work consists of 27 Suites called Ordres in which characters, mostly female, are delicately depicted as refined psychological portraits of women, something unheard of in instrumental music of the time. Johann Sebastian Bach wrote…
Dance has always given movement to music, the movement of rhythm, The physical movement. But the inner movement, the psychic movement, the movement of affects, was given by the composers and composers through their art. Because it is art that makes possible the fusion of the movement of the mind with that of the body.…
The MASSENZIO 2035 project is an ambitious initiative to disseminate the works of the great composer Domenico Massenzio da Ronciglione, one of the leading names of the Roman School of the early 17th century. The repertoire selected for “At the Creation of the World” aims to trace a broad profile in the work of Maxentius,…