Programs for orchestras ENG - Reggio Iniziative Culturali
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Programs for orchestras ENG - Reggio Iniziative Culturali
Viale Umberto 1° n. 5 - 42123 Reggio Emilia - Tel. 0522 420804 – Fax. 0522 453896 sito web: www.reggioiniziativeculturali.com / e-mail: [email protected] MADE IN ITALY The Italian song: 1910 – 1950 (Selection, elaborations and instrumentations by ALESSANDRO LUCCHETTI) For piano concertante and orchestra Alessandro Lucchetti - piano Antonio Ballista - conductor Presentation “Made in Italy” proposes some innovative arrangements - for ensembles or for orchestra - in a language borrowed from classical music of some of the most famous Italian songs from the Tenth to the Fifties of the 20th Century. This music is not only a real portrait of that period, but also one of the peaks of Italian creativity at that time. The first performance of this program was made in 2002, during the Concert Season of the Teatro la Scala. It toured, then, across Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil obtaining a great success. 1 Viale Umberto 1° n. 5 - 42123 Reggio Emilia - Tel. 0522 420804 – Fax. 0522 453896 sito web: www.reggioiniziativeculturali.com / e-mail: [email protected] Program 2 D’ANZI (Giovanni d’Anzi’s music) D’ANZI Tu musica divina - Bambina innamorata - Ma le gambe Silenzioso slow - Non dimenticar…(le mie parole) - Ma l’amore no LAZZI E SBERLEFFI (Monkeying around) KRAMER CONSIGLIO MORBELLI PESTALOZZA Pippo non lo sa Il pinguino innamorato - Maramao perché sei morto Ba-ba-baciami Ciribiribìn LACRIME (Tears) GILL MARCHETTI SIMI BERTINI DE CURTIS Come pioveva Non passa più Addio signora Un’ora sola ti vorrei Non ti scordar di me MASCHERONI (Vittorio Mascheroni’s music) MASCHERONI Bombolo -Fiorin fiorello - Lodovico - Tu che mi fai piangere - Tango della gelosia ILLUSIONI (Illusions) OLIVIERI SCIORILLI FRAGNA KRAMER Tornerai Perduto amore (In cerca di te) Signora illusione Non ti fidar (di un bacio a mezzanotte) ESOTISMI (Exoticisms) DI LAZZARO DI CHIARA RIPP Le carovane del Tigrai La spagnola Creola BIXIO (Cesare Andrea Bixio’s music) BIXIO Canzone sospirata - Lucciole vagabonde - Tango delle capinere Parlami d’amore Mariù - La canzone dell’amore (solo per te Lucia) Viale Umberto 1° n. 5 - 42123 Reggio Emilia - Tel. 0522 420804 – Fax. 0522 453896 sito web: www.reggioiniziativeculturali.com / e-mail: [email protected] MOVIE CHARMS The charm of movies through the music for soprano, piano concertante and orchestra idea, reworked versions and instrumentations by Alessandro Lucchetti Antonio Ballista - conductor Lorna Windsor - soprano Alessandro Lucchetti - piano Presentation The adventure of gathering themes from soundtracks and transforming them in a concert for piano (played by two people) started in 1988. My muse was the soprano Alide Maria Salvetta. She, and M° Antonio Ballista, asked me to realize one of her childhood dreams: to sing in a concert the most beautiful songs from Walt Disney movies. I was initially confused by this request, and then, reading the scores, I was also dejected. It was a disaster! The themes were fascinating, but also too short to be transposed in a concert form. Later, I convinced that it could be not only a technical challenge, but also an opportunity to renew my repertoire and to work on my musical memory. So, I created Incantesimi (Spells), the first of the fantasies that I composed, originally for a feminine voice, piano and orchestra, then for piano played by two people. Divided in three parts ( related to the movies Snow White, Mary Poppins and Cinderella) connected by two short easy-going moments (“Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” and the famous “Mickey Mouse march”), the fantasia as an irregular progression: sometimes it seems to lose the central idea, then it accelerates linking the themes in an uncommon way. My aim is to amaze the listener in the same way Alice was amazed when she realized she was passing through the lock of a door! After Incantesimi, I composed Amarcord, dedicated to Nino Rota’s music for Fellini’s movies. There are all the most important ones (La dolce vita, 8½, La strada, Amarcord etc.) together with some of the less known, such as “Le notti di Cabiria”, “Il Bidone” or “Tre passi nel delirio”, in a quick and breathtaking succession of famous themes. At this point I decided to create a whole program that was related to the cinema. I began to work at Non solo Charlot (Not only Charlot), that gathers just a small number of the several themes composed by the extraordinary fantasy of Charlie Chaplin for his movies. 3 Viale Umberto 1° n. 5 - 42123 Reggio Emilia - Tel. 0522 420804 – Fax. 0522 453896 sito web: www.reggioiniziativeculturali.com / e-mail: [email protected] As the title wants to underline, he was a genius. He was not only the interpreter of the character everybody knows, not only the director of his own movies, but also the composer of the wonderful soundtrack that beautifully ties together images and feelings, ideas, atmospheres, so well that it can recall all their magic even in their absence. I thought to divide the composition in two parts: the first one is dedicated to the silent films, the second one to the spoken, following the chronology of the movies and underlining how the presence of a dramaturgical text can make the difference about inspiration (even musical!). And so I created also the last one of the fantasies, the more easy-going one, that I dedicated to a great composer of the Sixties: Henry Mancini. Belonged to Glenn Miller school, he is renown particularly for his themes “The Pink Panter” or “Moon River”: he couldn’t be excluded from a program like this. Titled Una Pantera a Hollywood (A Panther in Hollywood), the fantasia develops like Amarcord, alternating rhythmic and melodic themes, so characteristic that they don’t need particular elaborations. Concerning the formal aspect and the instrumentations, I got inspiration from the transcriptions and the paraphrasing made by Liszt: they are still unequalled examples of recreating the sense of the originals or telling a story by paraphrasing the themes of a melodrama (Norma, Don Giovanni, Rigoletto etc.) Alessandro Lucchetti Program C. CHAPLIN Non solo Charlot (Not only Charlot) fantasia of themes from C. Chaplin’s films (for piano and orchestra) H. MANCINI Una ”Pantera” a Hollywood (A Panther in Hollywood) themes and songs from H. Mancini’s soundtracks (for piano and orchestra) * * * * * AUTORI VARI Incantesimi (Spells) fantasia of songs from W. Disney’s films (for soprano, piano and orchestra) N. ROTA Amarcord fantasia of themes from F. Fellini’s films (for piano and orchestra) 4 Viale Umberto 1° n. 5 - 42123 Reggio Emilia - Tel. 0522 420804 – Fax. 0522 453896 sito web: www.reggioiniziativeculturali.com / e-mail: [email protected] ROSSINI, PUCCINI AND VERDI…WITHOUT WORDS Three “Fantasies”, each one correspond to a famous Italian melodrama (Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini, Turandot by Puccini and La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi) and is construct as something that seems like a XIX century paraphrase by a virtuous pianist on opera themes and a modern songs medley. Duly alternating between two genres and official movements. The general musical mark of the project is the fidelity to the originals: no melodic manipulation (if we don’t include, obviously, the insertion of the singing in a pure instrumental line), no harmonious deformation, no new births. No “square music”. None “à la manière de…”. Only Rossini, Puccini and Verdi. Singing and orchestra, always recognizable, are enveloped, slip and fill, languish, flow, erupt and vanish in the instrumental set chosen by Lucchetti, substantial but a chamber one, even if it doesn’t gloss over the symphonic ambitions: winds (flute, oboe, horn, bassoon, horn and trumpet), strings (the classical five parts: two violins, viola, cello and double bass), a percussionist and a piano. Thirteen musicians. The orchestration by Alessandro Luccetti doesn’t restrict itself to allude to the symphonic but recreate it even if with writing multi-instrumental means of solistic sort, producing a sound that offers surprising starting points. Particularly significant and incisive, from this point of view, is the complex role committed to the piano, the only outsider in an orchestra palette who wants to be accurate to the original scores. The piano, in fact, performs from time to time a triple role: integrated in the score, in function of collaboration with the other instruments, and with them a role of sharing of the musical textures (melodic and symphonic ones). Extremely virtuosistic and so free from the fidelity to the peculiar writings when – and frequently happen – imitates the classical situation of the great paraphrases by Listz on opera themes, filling with arpeggio and cords every sonorous space surrounding the loved themes. But has this operation a sense? A Graal? Has it an aim? Without doubt, there is the divertissement. But it’s not a cynical or bitter or intellectual divertissement. No. The spur is simple: together the élan vital, the karma and the nirvana of Without Words lies where we expect them, thinking about Rossini, Puccini and Verdi with the desire of listen, know and live again these eternal melodies. Because the places offered by Without Words finds their peace in us, they are thoughts of our heart. 5 Viale Umberto 1° n. 5 - 42123 Reggio Emilia - Tel. 0522 420804 – Fax. 0522 453896 sito web: www.reggioiniziativeculturali.com / e-mail: [email protected] PUCCINI WITHOUT WORDS Two concerts of fantasies and reminiscences invented and orchestrated by Alessandro Lucchetti Antonio Ballista - conductor Alessandro Lucchetti - piano Program First concert G. PUCCINI - A. LUCCHETTI Turandot Irreversible Incenso e Fango (fantasies of themes from Tosca) *** Reminiscences of "La Bohéme" Second concert G. PUCCINI - A. LUCCHETTI Un Eroe Americano (fantasies of themes from Madama Butterfly) Lontano (fantasies of themes from Manon Lescaut and La Fanciulla del West) *** Uno e Trino (i mille volti dell'a-mor-te)(fantasies of themes from Il Tabarro, Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica) Ritratto di Dark Lady (in rosa)(fantasies of themes from La Rondine) Chamber Orchestra: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, percussions, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass Orchestra: 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 0, 0, 1, 1, piano, strings 6 Viale Umberto 1° n. 5 - 42123 Reggio Emilia - Tel. 0522 420804 – Fax. 0522 453896 sito web: www.reggioiniziativeculturali.com / e-mail: [email protected] ROSSINI WITHOUT WORDS Concert of reminiscences invented and orchestrated by Alessandro Lucchetti Antonio Ballista - conductor Alessandro Lucchetti - piano Program ROSSINI-LUCCHETTI Reminiscences of “L'Italiana in Algeri" Reminiscences of "La Cenerentola" *** Reminiscences of "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" Chamber orchestra: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, percussions, piano, two violins, viola, cello, double bass Orchestra: 2, 2, 2, 2, 2,2, 0, 0, 1, 1, piano, strings 7 Viale Umberto 1° n. 5 - 42123 Reggio Emilia - Tel. 0522 420804 – Fax. 0522 453896 sito web: www.reggioiniziativeculturali.com / e-mail: [email protected] VERDI FOREVER Reminiscences and paraphrases of Trittico Romantico by Alessandro Lucchetti Program Reminiscences of Il Trovatore Paraphrases of Rigoletto *** Paraphrases of La Traviata Chamber orchestra: flute, oboe, bassoon, horn, trumpet, percussions, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass Orchestra: 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 0, 0, 1, 1, piano, strings 8 Viale Umberto 1° n. 5 - 42123 Reggio Emilia - Tel. 0522 420804 – Fax. 0522 453896 sito web: www.reggioiniziativeculturali.com / e-mail: [email protected] PROGRAMS FOR THE ORCHESTRA “ ‘900 STORICO” Presentation The first half of the last century bequeathed an historical heritage of a huge variety of languages to leave astounded. This so rich Babel could be considered not only an amazing music repertoire but also a kaleidoscopic range of world visions. It’s exiting thinking about the extraordinary main characters of that period, unique for its creativity in the history of music: because there are a lot and all of high prominence. Everyone knows them ma sometimes the majority of players, cultural operators and musical agents seems to forget. Just remember the little part of the work of one of the greatest musicians from time immemorial, Igor Stravinsky, who is normally planned in the concert halls all over the world. For my part, I have the pride and the humility to try to spread as much as possible the several masterpieces of that period present seldom in the concert institutions. As the ones that appear in the program below whom this presentation refers to. 9 Viale Umberto 1° n. 5 - 42123 Reggio Emilia - Tel. 0522 420804 – Fax. 0522 453896 sito web: www.reggioiniziativeculturali.com / e-mail: [email protected] PROGRAM WITH MUSIC BY CASELLA 10 Bruno Canino - piano Antonio Ballista - conductor Pupazzetti Marcietta Berceuse Serenata Notturnino Polka Scarlattiana (for piano and small orchestra) Sinfonia Minuetto Capriccio Pastorale Finale *** Pagine di guerra Nel Belgio: sfilata di artiglieria pesante tedesca In Francia davanti alle rovine della cattedrale di Reims In Russia: carica di cavalleria cosacca In Alsazia: croci di legno Nell’Adriatico: corazzate italiane in crociera Serenata op.46 bis Marcia Notturno Gavotta Cavatina Finale Viale Umberto 1° n. 5 - 42123 Reggio Emilia - Tel. 0522 420804 – Fax. 0522 453896 sito web: www.reggioiniziativeculturali.com / e-mail: [email protected] PROGRAM WITH MUSIC BY GHEDINI 11 Alda Caiello e Lorna Windsor - sopranos Tony Servillo - voice Trio di Parma Antonio Ballista – conductor Architetture Concerto for orchestra Spiritual Concerto “de la incarnazione del verbo divino” by Jacopone da Todi (for two sopranos and instruments) *** Concerto of the Albatros from “Moby Dick” by Hermann Melville (for violin, cello, piano, voice and orchestra) _____________________________________ PROGRAM WITH MUSIC BY RESPIGHI Alda Caiello - soprano Antonio Ballista – conductor Three chorals by J.S. Bach from Choralvolspiele for organ (transcription for orchestra) Trittico botticelliano for small orchestra Deità silvane five operas on textes by Antonio Rubino (for soprano and small orchestra) *** Rossiniana Suite for orchestra from Les Riens by Rossini Viale Umberto 1° n. 5 - 42123 Reggio Emilia - Tel. 0522 420804 – Fax. 0522 453896 sito web: www.reggioiniziativeculturali.com / e-mail: [email protected] PROGRAM WITH MUSIC BY PIZZETTI 12 Alda Caiello - soprano Bruno Canino - piano Antonio Ballista - conductor Songs of the high season concerto for piano and orchestra *** Three popular songs for soprano and strings Three symphonic preludes for Edipo Re for orchestra Viale Umberto 1° n. 5 - 42123 Reggio Emilia - Tel. 0522 420804 – Fax. 0522 453896 sito web: www.reggioiniziativeculturali.com / e-mail: [email protected] WITHOUT BREATH MUSIC FOR IMAGES Homage to Alfred Hitchcock Antonio Ballista – musical direction Stefano Masi - ideation and video direction Luca De Sensi – video editing Cartobaleno s.n.c. - animations music by: Bernard Hermann, Miklos Rózsa, Charles Gounod Presentation In a television interview, the Georgian director Otar Yoseliani assert that the movies have to be seen only and exclusively in a cinema, out of there they are relentlessly destined to die and decay. But is it really a damage the “decay” of a movie? No, if this process succeed to give a further sense to its single parts. Surely, a movie is much more than the sum of its parts (dialogues, effects, music, voice, images, photography) and it’s for this reason that its showing in a dark room make the flow on an impalpable celluloid tape the seventh art. To bring the masterpieces by Alfred Hitchcock in a concert hall means, without doubt, to turn down the suspense and the sense of apprehension that their whole show produces. However, this choice allows to underline the real sense of those elements that formed the inimitable and also duplicate dramatic mechanisms. First of all, the music. The soundtracks of the Hitchcock’s movies (perfectly interactive with the images and the voices, the colors, the lights and the shadows) get, played in person, in the form of a suite, a different nature, imposing itself with the only evocative power of the musical suggestion and creating by its own, a phantasmagoric world of voices, colors, lights and shadows. And the rest? In this “decay” process, the image dissolves itself in the endless esthetical hints and in the continuous cross references – its true heart – revealing what you can find beyond the image itself, when the screen is already turned off, silent. The video intersects and transforms itself during the musical performance gathering together in a exclusively evocative and sentimental form very short sequences, photos, images on the set, auditions, storyboards, drawings and outlines of Hitchcock but also his subtle and ironic distractions and the funny riddles, the iconographical references, the pictorial and artistic suggestions that are part of his particular esthetic taste. Once the screen is reduced to silence, a world full of signs that the movie hides in and beyond itself arises. And here is the music, that lives now a new existence not connected to its original status of soundtrack. An existence that flows in parallel, with the same dignity, to the images and to all that images hide and public can’t even suspect. Stefano Masi 13 Viale Umberto 1° n. 5 - 42123 Reggio Emilia - Tel. 0522 420804 – Fax. 0522 453896 sito web: www.reggioiniziativeculturali.com / e-mail: [email protected] “A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake”. Alfred Hitchcock Program BERNARD HERRMANN (191 1 - 1975) Psycho, suite for string (Psyco, 1960) Prelude The City The Rainstorm The Madhouse The Murder The Stairs The Knife Finale Mamie (Marnle,1964) Main Theme North by Northwest (1959) Main Title CHARIES GOUNOD (1818 - 18s3) Funeral March of a Marionette BERNARD HERRMANN Vertigo Suite (1958) Prelude The Nightmare Scene d'amour A Portrait of Hitch on themes of the movie The trouble with Harry (1955) MIKLOS RÓZSA (1907 - 1995) Spellbound Concerto on the themes of the movie Spellbound (1945) Orchestra: 3 flutes (one of these also a piccolo), 2 oboes, 1 English horn, 3 clarinets, 2 bass clarinets, 2 bassoons, 1 double bassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 tuba, 5 percussions, piano, celesta, 2 harps, strings. 14 Viale Umberto 1° n. 5 - 42123 Reggio Emilia - Tel. 0522 420804 – Fax. 0522 453896 sito web: www.reggioiniziativeculturali.com / e-mail: [email protected] THE MEDITERRANEAN AND EUROPE Antonio Ballista - conductor Presentation A program of pleasant abandon to the brightness of the blessed place of our world that is the Mediterranean basin. So no Nordic hazes et no German philosophies or concessions to the romantic sublime, but a joyful celebration of the inextinguishable burst of the Eros vitality. Program I part FRANCIS POULENC Suite française Bransle de Bourgogne Pavane Petite marche militaire Complainte Bransle de Champagne Sicilienne Carillon NIKOS SKALKOTTAS Four greek danses Peloponnesian Hepirotic Hostian KIefti PETR II'IC CAJKOVSKIJ Italian capriccio II part CAMILLE SAINT - SAENS Suite algérienne En vue d'Alger Rapsodie mauresque Rêverie du soir à Blida Marche militaire française MAURICE RAVEL Rapsodie espagnole Prélude à la nuit Malaguena Habana 15 Viale Umberto 1° n. 5 - 42123 Reggio Emilia - Tel. 0522 420804 – Fax. 0522 453896 sito web: www.reggioiniziativeculturali.com / e-mail: [email protected] BORDER LAND CROSSING OVER ENSEMBLE AND ORCHESTRA Presentation Cross-over (a term generally used also in genetics and in acoustic to state the presence of heterogeneous elements) is the most recent and new among musical genres. Born in the Eighties, it works on rhythmic and melodic forms who come from tradition combining them with typical features of other genres: ethnic music, jazz, rock, soundtracks etc. Today, in the communication era, when people with different habits, religions and traditions are more and more melted, a music that combines Debussy, an Arabic song and an African rhythm seems to be the perfect soundtrack. Lucchetti’s music comes from several sources: different genres (jazz, chamber music, rock, funky, pop), sounds from other countries (Arabic, Afro-Cuban, Oriental, Celtic, Balkanic). The basic structures are classical and strictly lied to notation; nevertheless, Lucchetti’s creativity is limitless. So, we have the possibility to listen to (like in Dance in Medina) a combination of a muezzin song, a disco-dance rhythm and a lyric melody in a kaleidoscopic mix changing in musical time and space. Crossing Over is an ensemble whose artists have different roles and musical educations. So, the name itself of the group states its features and aims: the possibility to move across five centuries of musical genres, covering unusual and surprisingly revealing paths. Alessandro Lucchetti (piano) and Gianni Alberti (sax and clarinet), are academic musicians and teachers at the Conservatory of Brescia; Riccardo Biancoli (drums and percussions) and Daniele Scaravelli (electrical bass) are very active players in jazz, rock, funky, blues performances and they are also interested in some contemporary music expressions like the minimalism and the cross-over. 16 Viale Umberto 1° n. 5 - 42123 Reggio Emilia - Tel. 0522 420804 – Fax. 0522 453896 sito web: www.reggioiniziativeculturali.com / e-mail: [email protected] Program 17 Mind Games I Corazon Espinado Dance in Medina Capriccio Mind Games II *** Black Wind Graceland Virtual Moonlight (serenade) Mirages Summer Samba Orchestra: 2, 2, 2, 2,2, 2, 0, 0, 2, harp, strings Viale Umberto 1° n. 5 - 42123 Reggio Emilia - Tel. 0522 420804 – Fax. 0522 453896 sito web: www.reggioiniziativeculturali.com / e-mail: [email protected] THE 24 PRELUDES BY CLAUDE DEBUSSY for piano concertante and orchestra (instrumentations by Alessandro Lucchetti) Presentation Piano is the only instrument that is able to recall the great number of tones typical of an orchestra. That’s why a lot of composers, since the XIX Century, wanted to show evidence of this potentiality by transcripting several pieces for piano in music for orchestra. This practice produced a lot of real masterpieces, like for example the lieder by Schubert transcripted by Liszt, or Wolf’s work, in 1800, who concerned twenty among his own pages for voice and piano. But the most renown works were created in the XX Century, such as the famous Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky orchestrated by Ravel, or the Preludes by Chopin orchestrated by Jean Françaix, or, at present time, the beautiful versions for orchestra made by Giampaolo Testoni of Carnaval by Schumann and of Christmas Tree by Liszt. Orchestra: 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 3, harp, celesta, vibraphone, xylophone, timpani, percussions (2 players), Strings (12, 10, 8, 6, 4 min.) 18