COSTANTINO MASTROPRIMIANO
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THE GOLDEN ERA OF THE FORTEPIANO
COSTANTINO MASTROPRIMIANO
CONCERT
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Rohrau, Austria 1732 – Vienna 1809
Andante e Variazioni in fa min. Hob. XVII/6
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Salisburgo 1756 – Vienna 1791
Fantasia in do min. K. 475
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Bonn 1770 – Vienna 1827
SONATA
n. 21 in C major op. 53 “Waldstein”
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Vienna 1797 – 1828
3 Klavierstücke D. 946
Interpreter
COSTANTINO MASTROPRIMIANO fortepiano
Recorded live
Sale di Palazzo Chigi Saracini, March 12, 2021
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The Accademia Chigiana hosts one of the leading interpreters of the historical piano in Europe, Costantino Mastroprimiano. The concert, recorded in the halls of Palazzo Chigi Saracini and streamed on Chigiana Digital, is part of the 2020-2021 “Micat In Vertice” Concert Season. The program, performed on three different period instruments, is dedicated to the music of Franz Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert over the period between 1785 and 1828, often referred to as the golden age of the fortepiano. Costantino Mastroprimiano, who studied at the Accademia Chigiana in the 1980s with Guido Agosti, returns to Siena in a memorable concert to tell the story of this precious instrument, which reached its maximum splendor in Vienna between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The instruments
Fortepiano Louis Dulcken 1810, copia di Matthias Kramer
Fortepiano Conrad Graf 1819, copia di Paul McNulty
Fortepiano Anton Walter 1792, copia Paul McNulty
Costantino Mastroprimiano is a unique figure in the panorama of the historical piano. After studying piano and chamber music with Michele Marvulli, Guido Agosti and Riccardo Brengola at the Chigiana in Siena, he decided to devote himself to the study of the Fortepiano (historical piano).
Appreciated for his research, he has recorded an extensive discography (Tactus and Brilliant Classics). Of absolute reference are the complete recording of Muzio Clementi’s Sonatas (18 CD) and Hummel’s Sonatas (3CD) for Brilliant Classics, for which he also records compositions by Chopin, Alkan, Burgmüller, Staehle, Moscheles and Ries.
He plays in duo with the cellist Marco Testori with whom he records Beethoven’s Sonatas and Variations for fortepiano and cello and for the Aulicus Classics he undertakes the complete recording of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas.
He has been invited to important Italian and foreign institutions, including the Roman Philharmonic Academy, the Concerts of the Normale, the Quartet Society of Milan, Les Nuits de Septembre-Liège, Mozarteum of Salzburg, the Grange aux Pianos. He holds numerous Master Classes in Italy and Europe and teaches historical piano and chamber music at the “F. Morlacchi ”of Perugia.