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… A fine performance of the Respighi, sensitive to its brooding soundworld, is invaluably coupled with Pick-Mangiagalli’s more tautly argued Sonata. (BBC Music Magazine)
…Emy Bernecoli sounds as though she’s been playing these wonderful pieces all her life… (The Strad)
… impassioned, technically polished and rhythmically rock-solid interpretations… (Gramophone)
…highly natural phrasing, a clean instrumental sound and a penetrating tone… (Musica)
…limpid and captivating interpretations… (Amadeus)
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NEXT EVENT
5 and 6 August
7.30 p.m.
Bergen, Norway
Duo with Floraleda Sacchi, harp
Music by Paisiello, Respighi, Grieg, Viotti, Rota
Grieg in Bergen Festival
10 August
11 p.m.
Cocktail Music Club
Tva Vicenza, Channel 10
with Elia Andrea Corazza and Michele Armelin
music and interview
22/28 August
New Cd Recording
with Elia Andrea Corazza
Lunatic Lights Project
www.eliacorazza.it
1 and 2 October
Mondomusica
Yamaha artist for the New Silent Violin
www.cremonamondomusica.it
5/7 October
Istanbul, Turkey
Duo with Elia Andrea Corazza, piano
music by Vivaldi, Vitali, Rota,
Respighi, Casella, Pick-Mangiagalli
IIC Istanbul
11 November
12 a.m.
Latina
Convegno Internazionale di Studi
Concert and Lecture
”Opera o Balletto?
O.Respighi vs S.Djagilev”
with Elia Andrea Corazza
Music by Ottorino Respighi
Conservatorio di Musica di Latina
13 November
10.30 a.m.
Bologna
Concert and Lecture
”Seria è la vita ma serena è l’arte”
with Elia Andrea Corazza
Music by Ottorino Respighi
Museo della Musica
19 November
9.30 p.m.
Ferrara
Palazzo Roverella
Duo with Alessandra Targa, harp
music by Massenet, Vivaldi, Tedeschi,
Piazzolla, Paganini, Mascagni
10 December
5 p.m.
Bologna
Concert and Lecture
with Elia Andrea Corazza
Music by Ottorino Respighi
Edition: Suvini Zerboni, Milan/Ut Orpheus, Bologna
Label: Naxos
Museo della Musica
15 February
7 p.m.
Teatro Politeama, Catanzaro
Concert for violin solo
Music by Telemann, Biber, Piazzolla
23/25 March
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Sala Verdi
Duo with Elia Andrea Corazza, piano
music by Vivaldi, Vitali, Rota,
Respighi, Casella, Pick-Mangiagalli
IIC Addis Abeba
28 March/7 April 2017
Verona, Italy
Arena di Verona
Principal Violin II
6/7 May 2017
Stuttgart, Germany
Haus der Musik im Fruchtkasten
Duo with Elia Andrea Corazza, piano
music by Vivaldi, Vitali, Rota,
Respighi, Casella, Pick-Mangiagalli
IIC Stoccarda
23 September 2017
Villa Bolasco, Castelfranco Veneto
Italy
Trio with Francesco Fontolan, bassoon
and Walter Vestidello, cello
music by Vivaldi, Gebauer,
Telemann, Mozart, Wolf-Ferrari and
the Premiere of a new Trio
by Elia Andrea Corazza
5 October 2017
Conservatorio ‘F.Torrefranca’, Vibo Valentia
Italy
Masterclass: Nuove musiche
with Sara Simari,harp
and Vittorino Naso, percussion
NEW CD
Respighi’s Sonata in B minor was completed a year after The Fountains of Rome had brought him international renown. A work of considerable dimensions and scope, it combines expressive intensity with techniques grounded in early Italian music. Like Respighi, Pizzetti, Casella, Malipiero and others, Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli belonged to the ‘generation of the 1880s’, which played such a key rôle in the resurgence of Italian instrumental music. His early Sonata, notable for its concise ideas and attractive melodies, and the three short pieces on this album, comprise the complete works for violin and piano of an undeservedly neglected composer. Volume 1 of this two-disc series can be heard on Naxos 8.573129.
NEW PUBLICATION
PREFACE by Christoph Flamm
[…]A livello stilistico il Minuetto corrisponde in pieno alle altre composizioni storicizzanti di Respighi di questi anni. L’utilizzo di bassi di bordone, di sequenze di accordi in falsobordone, di basso ostinato nel trio, ma anche tutto il sistema formale, dimostrano l’abilità di Respighi di cogliere felicemente gli elementi storici e di arricchirli in maniera discreta con un’espressione propria, più moderna, ad esempio nelle seste parallele delle voci centrali, nel cromatismo occasionale della melodia e nella progressione armonica del trio.[..]
[…]Stilistisch entspricht das Minuetto ganz Respighis übrigen historisierenden Kompositionen dieser Jahre. Die Verwendung von Bordun-Bässen, Fauxbourdon-artigen Akkordfolgen, Trommelbass im Trio wie auch die ganze formale Anlage belegen Respighis Geschick, historische Elemente spielerisch aufzugreifen und sie unauffällig mit einem eigenen, moderneren Ausdruck anzureichern, zum Beispiel in den Sextparallen der Mittelstimmen, in der gelegentlichen Chromatisierung der Melodik und in der harmonischen Sequenz des Trios.[…]
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