Instead of a long list that usually
you find in a musician’s website, I put together some pieces belonging to my repertoire
in nine musical patterns,
that could be also introduced by an historical ant technical
comment. Available also in French.
THE PIANO, A STRANGER IN HIS OWN COUNTRY
A very strange story: the
piano, invented in Florence by Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1698, will develop
abroad, especially in Germany and in England, and, after 1848, in the U.S.A.
During the XIX
century, the most important period for this instrument, in Italy nobody writes
for piano, I mean nobody that can stay at the same level of Chopin and Liszt.
Only at the end of the century there will be a reaction against the power of
the opera and an “Italian School” will born with composers like Casella,
Malipiero, Busoni, Petrassi.
Sonata in F sharp minor K. 25
Sonata in G major K. 201
Un petit train de plaisir
Invenzioni n. 1 e 2
Sonata in B flat major op. 47 n. 2
(Allegro con brio - Andante quasi allegretto - Rondo, allegro assai)
Two encores
Sonatina canonica sui capricci di Paganini
“La campanella” da Paganini
Sonetto del Petrarca n. 104
Legend n. 2
or
Après une lecture du Dante; fantasia quasi sonata
FROM THE HARPSICHORD TO THE PIANO
The new instrument
becomes popular very soon in all Europe:
technological evolution and main technical discoveries that gives to the
piano literature his own personality. This process will culminate in the
Romantic period after 150 years of history, by composer such as Clementi,
Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven.
Sonata in C minor K. 303
Sonata in G major K. 311
Sonata in B minor op. 40 n. 2
(molto adagio e sostenuto - allegro con fuoco e con espressione - largo mesto e patetico - allegro – lento come prima - presto)
Sonata K. 311 in D major
(allegro con spirito – andante con espressione – rondeau, allegro)
Sonata in E flat major Hob. XVI/49
(allegro – adagio e cantabile – Finale, tempo di minuet)
Sonata in D major op. 10 n. 3
(presto - largo e mesto - menuetto, allegro - rondo, allegro)
BEETHOVEN: THE SONATA FORM
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata in D major op. 10 n. 3
(presto - largo e mesto - menuetto, allegro - rondo, allegro)
Sonata in C major “Waldstein” op. 53
(allegro con brio – Introduzione: adagio molto – Rondo, allegretto moderato)
Sonata in D major “Pastorale” op. 28
(allegro - andante - scherzo, allegro vivace - rondo, allegro ma non troppo)
Sonata in C sharp minor op. 27 n. 2
(adagio sostenuto - allegretto - presto agitato)
VIENNA, THE MUSIC CAPITAL
Sonata in E flat major Hob XVI/49
(Allegro – Adagio e cantabile – Finale, tempo di Minuet)
Sonata in D major K. 311
(Allegro con spirito – Andante con espressione – Rondeau, allegro)
Sonata in A major Op. 120
(allegro moderato – Andante – Allegro)
Sonata in C major op. 53
(Allegro con brio – Adagio molto – Rondo, allegretto moderato)
Franz Schubert
Four Impromptus op. 90
Soirée de Vienne n. 6
Nocturne in D flat major op. 27 n. 2
First Ballad in G minor op. 23
Berceuse op. 57
Third Scherzo in C sharp minor op. 39
1. LOVE AND DEATH: the
composition of Liszt and Schumann are inspired by the Greek myth about Ero and Leander,
a tragic love story between a priestess and a young athlete. At the end the Totentanz, a diabolic music version of
the “triumph of the Death”, a fresco painting in Pisa
Second Ballad
Fantasiestucke op. 12
(Des Abends – Aufschwung – Warum – Grillen
In der Nacht – Fabel – Traumes Wirren – Ende vom
Lied)
Totentanz, piano solo version
2. FRANZ LISZT, THE
DIABLE
Mephistowalzer
Totentanz
Sonata in B minor
3. DEATH AND
TRANSFIGURATION.
Sonata in B flat minor op. 35
(Grave – doppio movimento; Scherzo; Marche funèbre, lento; Finale, presto)
Sonata in B minor
THE VIRTUOSO
Andante spianato e grande polacca brillante op. 22
Sonata in B minor op. 35
(Grave – doppio movimento; Scherzo; Marche funèbre, lento; Finale, presto)
Legend n. 2
La campanella
La leggierezza
Two transcriptions from Schubert
“Der Lindenbaum”
“Ave Maria”
Hungarian Rhapsody n. 6
NEW
SENSATIONS
Images, first book
(Reflets dans l’eau, Hommage à Rameau, Mouvement)
Suite op. 14
Study op. 8 n. 12
Prelude op. 2 n. 1
Second Sonata
EXPRESSIONISM,
FAUVE, IRONY AND RATIONALITY.
Alban Berg - Sonata op. 1
Anton Webern -
Variations
Igor Strawinsky – Three mouvements from da
Petruska
Luigi Dallapiccola - Sonatina canonica sui Capricci di Paganini
Sergei Prokofieff - Second Sonata