INTORNO A FEDERIGO TOZZI
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GUGLIELMO PIANIGIANI piano, with the participation of ANGELO ROMAGNOLI
INTORNO A FEDERIGO TOZZI
Concert in homage to the sienese writer on the 100th anniversary of his death
SPECIAL EVENT
Tribute to Federigo Tozzi
EDVARD GRIEG
Bergen, Norway 1843-1907
from Klaverstykker efter egne Sange Book II op. 52 (1891)
Modersorg [Dolore di madre] op. 15 n. 4
Allegretto con moto
FRYDERYK CHOPIN
Żelazowa Wola, Poland 1810 – Paris 1849
from Sonata for piano n. 2 op. 35 in B flat minor (1837-39)
III. Marcia funebre
Lento
ALFREDO CASELLA
Torino 1883 – Roma 1947
Deux contrastes op. 31 (1916-18)
I. Grazioso
II. Antigrazioso
EDVARD GRIEG
from Lyriske stykker [Lyric pieces]
Bekken [Ruscello]
op. 62 n. 4 Book VII (1895)
GIAN FRANCESCO MALIPIERO
Venice 1882 – Treviso 1973
from Preludi autunnali (1914)
III. Lento, triste
ALFREDO CASELLA
from Nove pezzi op. 24 n. 2 (1915)
In modo barbaro (dedicated to Enrique van der Henst)
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Lucca 1858 – Bruxelles 1924
Extracted from La Bohème opera in Quattro Quadri (1896) Act IV
(transcription for piano by Carlo Carignani)
EDVARD GRIEG
from Lyriske stykker [Lyric pieces] Efterklang [Rimembranze]
op. 71 n. 7 Book X (1901)
ALFREDO CASELLA
from 11 pezzi infantili op. 35 n. 11 (1920)
Galop-Final
FRANCESCO PAOLO FRONTINI
Catania 1860-1939
Valse ideal (1912-1922)
EDVARD GRIEG
from Lyriske stykker [Lyric pieces]
Nocturne
op. 54 n. 4 Book V (1891)
Interpreters
GUGLIELMO PIANIGIANI piano
with the participation of ANGELO ROMAGNOLI
Introduction by Riccardo Castellana
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Riccardo Castellana worked as researcher of Italian Literature at the University of Siena from 2006 to 2016. He is currently professor of Contemporary Italian Literature at the same institution. He is part of the teaching staff of the PhD program in “Italianistic Studies” at the Universities of Pisa, Florence and Siena. He obtained his PhD in Italian Studies at the University of Trieste in 2000. Between 2000 and 2004, he carried out research activities at the Department of Philology and Literary Criticism of Siena as a research fellow and post-doctoral scholar. Since 2002 he has taught Italian Literature, Italian Philology, Contemporary Italian Literature and Theory of Literature. His research activity is mainly focused on twentieth-century literature (Tozzi, Pirandello, Montale), authorial philology, comparative literature and issues of literary theory and historiography (Erich Auerbach, René Girard). He has actively collaborated in several research programs of national interest (PRIN).
Guglielmo Pianigiani graduated in piano and harpsichord at the Conservatory “Luigi Cherubini” in Florence, and he specialized with the Maestri: Gilbert at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Hoffmann at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, Elio and Erik Battaglia at the Hugo Wolf Academy, Noel Lee and Jeff Cohen at the Accademia Poulenc. In 2006, he graduated in Vocal Chamber Music and later gave concerts with Valeria M. Asciolla, T. Fabbricini, C. Bergonzi, R. Panerai, D. Mazzola Gavazzeni, G. Gelmetti, M. Olivero, M. Freni, P. Molinari, U. Stieler, D. Damiano, O. Spies and B. Hoffmann.
He collaborates as pianist, dramaturg and musicologist to many productions of the Accademia Musicale Chigiana of Siena and he is professor at the Conservatory of Florence. He graduated in Letters and has a PhD in Italianistics, has to his credit numerous publications on the relationship between literature and music. He is part of the scientific committee of several conferences, editing their proceedings and is the author of the critical-diplomatic edition of several librettos. For ETS (Pisa) has recently published a monograph dedicated to Verdi’s Otello.
Angelo Romagnoli is a multilingual Italian actor. For many years he has been a member of the artistic collective laLut, and has collaborated with leading figures of the international theatrical scene such as Rodolfo Santana, Jerzy Stuhr, Grzegorz Bral/Song of the Goat, Tomasz Man and in Italy, among others, with Oscar De Summa, Gianni Farina/Menoventi, Compagnia Biancofango, Massimiliano Civica.
He is active in musical collaborations with authors and composers such as Katarzyna Szwed, Stefano De Ponti, Pawel Lukaszewski in institutions such as Opera Wroclawska, Filharmonia Krakowska, Centro Santa Chiara di Trento. He took part in the opening concert of the VI Chigiana International Festival 2020 of the Accademia Musicale Chigiana.