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German premiere of the Sarabanda for violin and piano by Ottorino Respighi

Friday May 5th 2017, 7PM, Haus der Musik im Fruchtkasten, Schillerplatz 1, Stuttgart – Germany-

Duo Bernecoli Corazza – Emy Bernecoli, violin and Elia Andrea Corazza, piano.

The score is available in the critical and first edition through Schott Music at this link.

The Sarabanda for violin and piano

Official pages of the event: CIDIM and Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Stoccarda.

Tickets: https://www.easyticket.de/

 

ITALIAN COLOUR

Our musical journey on Italian Colour begins with the Sonata in Re maggiore RV10 by Antonio Vivaldi as transcribed by Ottorino Respighi, a great Italian composer of the Twentieth century and discoverer of ancient music. The program continues with Antonio Vitali’s Ciaccona, a famous masterpiece for violin which has been played by the most important violinist through the ages. This piece is a sequence of variations based on a descending basso ostinato which preserves balance and virtuosity. By Ottorino Respighi we will then play the unedited Sarabanda (1897), a recently rediscovered juvenile composition which is characterized by ancient forms and harmonies. By the same composer, then, the Berceuse, an evoking pastoral lullaby, and the sweet Valse Caressante, a delicate salon composition, both taken from the Six pieces for Violin and Piano (1902). The following Preludio e Danza Siciliana (Sicilian Dance, 1928) by Alfredo Casella are an autograph transcription for violin and piano of the first part of the ballet “La Giara”. The piece is based on Italian folk melodies rendered with virtuoso technique, modern harmonies and lyrical expansion. Again two delicate pieces: A Coralline, a lovable dedication, and Sirventese, a court dance, by Riccardo Pick-Magiagalli, which both incorporate the passionate Italian operatic tradition into light salon compositions. The three-part composition Autumn Suite (2016) by Elia Andrea Corazza combines ancient form and modern melodies. The final Un Diavolo sentimentale (A sentimental devil, 1969) by Nino Rota, a well-known Italian composer of music for the cinema, is an eccentric and sparkling piece based on octatonic scales and augmented fourth, a dissonant interval which, since ancient ages, is called Diabolus in musica.

 

Program:

Antonio Vitali
Ciaccona

Ottorino Respighi
Sarabanda (German premiere)
Berceuse e Valse Caressante dai Sei Pezzi per violino e pianoforte

Alfredo Casella
Preludio e Danza siciliana da “La Giara”
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Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli
A Coralline
Sirventese

Elia Andrea Corazza
Autumn Suite
Out of Sadness
Dreams
Rain 

Nino Rota
Un diavolo sentimentale

 

 

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Colore Italiano: concerto a Stoccarda!

Venerdì 05 maggio 2017, ore 19.00, Haus der Musik im Fruchtkasten, Schillerplatz 1, Stoccarda – Germania-

 

Duo Bernecoli Corazza – Emy Bernecoli, violino e Elia Andrea Corazza, pianoforte. In collaborazione con ARCES e.V e Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Stoccarda.

 

Scheda ufficiale dell’evento: CIDIM e Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Stoccarda.

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COLORE ITALIANO

Il viaggio attraverso il programma Colore Italiano inizia con un must del passato che è stato terreno fertile per memorabili interpretazioni di violinisti di ogni epoca: la Ciaccona di Antonio Vitali. Il pezzo muove i passi dal celebre basso ostinato discendente di epoca barocca in una successione di variazioni che ad oggi conservano equilibrio e arditezza. La Sarabanda inedita (1897) dalle armonie antiche e il suo autore, Ottorino Respighi, si collegano spiritualmente al pezzo di apertura: è infatti del compositore bolognese la celebre orchestrazione della Ciaccona di Vitali. Una Berceuse dal carattere pastorale e un Valse Caressante prettamente salottiero tratti dai Sei pezzi per violino e pianoforte del 1902 completano un ideale trittico che esprime tutta la personalità del Respighi. A conclusione della prima parte un pezzo di raro ascolto tratto dall’omonima composizione per orchestra ‘’La Giara’’ di Alfredo Casella, autografo e dedicato al violinista Paul Kochanski. Il Preludio e Danza siciliana del 1928 esprimono in poche pagine tutto il virtuosismo di cui era capace lo stesso compositore quando era al pianoforte e nello stesso tempo fanno trapelare una potente capacità contemplativa. La seconda parte del programma apre con‘’Un Diavolo sentimentale’’ (1969) di Nino Rota, pezzo eccentrico e brillante del compositore che ha scritto per il grande cinema italiano ma che ha espresso ampia parte della sua fantasia creativa nella musica da camera. L’ imponente sonata in Si minore (1917) di Ottorino Respighi in chiusura è uno dei capolavori per la musica da camera del bolognese che con la Passacaglia finale trascina esecutore ed ascoltatore in un turbine virtuosistico di puro sapore novecentesco.

 

Programma:

Antonio Vitali
Ciaccona

Ottorino Respighi
Sarabanda (inedito)
Berceuse e Valse Caressante dai Sei Pezzi per violino e pianoforte

Alfredo Casella
Preludio e Danza siciliana da “La Giara”
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Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli
A Coralline
Sirventese

Elia Andrea Corazza
Autumn Suite
Out of Sadness
Dreams
Rain 

Nino Rota
Un diavolo sentimentale

 

 

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A Piece of Music Found, A Lost Opera Complete

 

Dan Turello wrote this article on my research at The Library of Congress, during my Kluge Fellowship. He describes my quest to reconstruct the entire score of Paisiello’s La Serva Padrona, which Ottorino Respighi orchestrated for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1920, but was not staged and considered lost.

    Short excerpt from the article by Dan Turello:

Sometimes a few missing pages can make it a challenge to reconstruct an entire work. This was exactly the case when current Kluge Fellow Elia Corazza discovered the autographed orchestration of La Serva Padrona, an 18th century opera written by Giovanni Paisiello and then adapted by Ottorino Respighi for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1920.

Corazza, a composer, conductor, and musicologist, with training in piano, composition and orchestral conducting, as well as a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Bologna (Italy), became interested in La Serva Padrona as a part of his broader effort to rediscover some of Respighi’s lost works. Respighi became popular in Italy after the First World War, just as Fascism was taking hold in the country. During these years, Respighi transcribed various works of pre-romantic music created by Italian composers including Monteverdi, Paisiello, Cimarosa, and Rossini, that had long since been forgotten and seldom, if ever performed.

You can read the entire interview on The Library of Congress’ blog.

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Work of the Week – Giovanni Paisiello: La serva padrona

In 1920, impresario Sergei Diaghilev commissioned the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi to revise Giovanni Paisiello’s opera buffa, La Serva padrona, for his Ballets Russes. Respighi shortened Paisiello’s work, reorchestrated it, and even added choir in several places. Also he added a ballet finale at Diaghilev’s request, based on a selection of ballet music by Paisiello composed during his tenure at the court of Catherine II in St. Petersburg. A performance of this revised version of La Serva padrona, however, never materialised.

   A few years ago, conductor, composer, and musicologist Dr. Elia Andrea Corazza undertook to realise Diaghilev’s vision. The resulting critical edition, which expands Respighi’s piano reduction into a full score for the first time, is now available from Schott music. Notes by Diaghilev in his own copies of Paisiello’s original score helped Corazza to reconstruct Respighi’s version of the opera. The world première will take place on 5 August 2014 in the court of the Piccoli Teatro del Baraccano in Bologna, conducted by Corazza in a production by Paolo Billi. The production can be seen two more times on 6 and 7 August.

   Read the full article, forthcoming performances and the full score on Schott’s website.