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Piano Recital Program of Italian Contemporary Music
One-hour (no-break or with short break) recital, 3 thematic sections.
Section 1
Literary inspiration, Shakespeare and North-European mithology
Sandro GORLI (1948) Il
mulino di Amleto (1997)
Fabio GRASSO (1969),
La danza segreta di Maeve (1999)
Section 2
Philosophical and literary inspiration, Ancient Greece
Letizia MICHIELON (1969) Harmonia
Mundi (2007)
Fabio GRASSO (1969)
Les alcyons de Corinthe (2007)
Listen on Rosenfinger Virtual Concert Hall
Fabio GRASSO (1969) Pergamons Stele (2010)
Fabio GRASSO (1969) Promethean Triptych (2013, currently unperformed)
Section 3
Contemporary and historical avantgarde virtuosities
Luciano BERIO (1925-2003) Sequenza IV
(A possible choice especially
for 2013, 10th anniversary of Berio’s death. However, on request, this piece
can be replaced by another work by a living composer)
Fabio GRASSO (1969)
Fantasia Veni Creator Spiritus (2012)
Short program notes:
Section 1
Under the Shakespearian
reference of the title “Il mulino di Amleto” conceals the allusion to the
nordic myth of the world mill, that with its perennial rotations determines the
human fate.
Maeve -
Irish name of the shakespearian Queen Mab - is the fairy queen of the invisible
host, whose night legends are recalled by W. B. Yeats’s drama The Countess
Cathleen. Listen on YouTube at http://youtu.be/eWLscfb0YWM
Section 2
A route
through some inspiring sources drawn from ancient Greek culture: from the
Pythagorean numerology, to the decadent vision of Corinth by the Hellenistic
poet Antipatros from Tyros (listen at Rosenfinger Virtual Concert Hall at http://www.rosenfinger.com/c002.htm),
to the friezes of Pergamon’s temple, till to the myth of Prometheus.
Section 3
Berio’s
“Sequenze” give an important contribution to the enrichment of the conception
of the instrumental virtuosity in the second half of 20th century.
See http://www.fabiograsso.eu/art.htm
to read an analysis of Sequenza IV by the interpreter.
Fabio
Grasso’s Fantasy uses the line of the gregorian hymn Veni Creator Spiritus as
base-cell of a sequence of nine episodes, rich of virtuoso passages, and
organized in a route that reflects theological thoughts, literary hints, echoes
of traditional forms.
Listen to
this work with synchronized videocommentary at http://youtu.be/3-g6RnqQRQY
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