Liszt & Friends chamber music festival: Concerto del Duo

About the Event

Explore the magnificent architecture of Rome's Sant'Agnese in Agone during a captivating chamber concert that will enhance your appreciation for chamber music.

The program includes compositions that, although of different stylistic matrix, are united by the rejection of certain technical‐academic 'experimentalism' and the search for a language that always puts before (even in the presence of expressive means not exclusively linked to the most widespread tradition) communicative immediacy. Here then, starting with Debussy's Rhapsody (a formidable example of impressionist art with its predilection for instrumental 'colors'), the pages of Rota's celebrated soundtracks are linked with works by Englishmen of the caliber of Arnold and Templeton, who were also fruitful creators of soundtracks for the cinema. Also unmissable is the space for the American repertoire, which with Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue (multicolored New York fantasy and musical kaleidoscope) offers what was most representative of the American culture of the early twentieth century, and dutiful, on the occasion of 'its' centenary) the presence of Astor Piazzolla, who with the (tango)Seasons was a symbol of the fusion of 'high' and popular culture that the twentieth century itself brings to fruition.

Program

Claude DEBUSSY Première rhapsodie
George GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue
Nino ROTA — Roberto COGNAZZO Rotation on film music
Astor Piazzolla Invierno Porteño
Malcolm ARNOLD Sonatina Op. 29 (allegro con brio‐andantino‐furioso)
Alec TEMPLETON Poket Size Sonata (improvisation‐modal blues‐in rhythm)

Cast / Production

The Duo Cilberti‐Rotolo was founded in Bari with the aim of devoting themselves to the dissemination of the 20th‐century chamber music repertoire, as well as the classical repertoire.
The members of the duo, who graduated from the 'Piccinni' Conservatory of Music in Bari under the guidance of Maestros Portino, Lupo, Campagnola, have respectively perfected their skills with Brymer, Mariozzi, Pay, Chiesa, Camicia, Wibronsky, Perry, Medori, and Canino.
They have to their credit national and international achievements having won scholarships, solo competitions and in chamber ensembles.
The musicians perform concerts in Italy and abroad (the U.S., France, Germany, England, Spain, Greece, Malta, Austria, Morocco, Egypt, Romania, Poland, Moldova, Bulgaria, India), have recorded for the record companies Fonit‐Cetra, Warner Music, Bongiovanni, Rugginenti, Phoenix Classics, Enja Records, MusicaImmagine, and made radio recordings broadcast by RAI, Radio Malta, Radio Vaticana, Radio Europa International, Radio Medi one, Radio SudwestFUNK and other Italian and foreign state radio and television stations.
In addition to their concert activity, the two musicians also teach their respective instruments in State Conservatories of Music.