A Jouney to Italy
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A Jouney to Italy
A Jouney to Italy In the past classical music has connected Italian culture with Russian culture, today, thanks to Gubernatorsky Orchestra, with the concert “Italian Journey in the XXI century“, I wish to renew and strenghten the cultural exchange with a concert able to encourage new generations to art music. For this program I have choosen authors that, while expressing different creativities and styles, had in commun the use of a direct musical language, designed to keep the attention focused thans to a succession of emotions, like the landscape observed from a train crossing Italy. I am aware that, presenting a completely new program, Gubernatorsky Orchestra has accepted a great challenge. But I am as well aware that great cultural renewals come from great challenges. Piero Michi, artistic director of Edizioni Musicali Wicky Edizioni Musicali Wicky s.a.s. - Via G. Previati 32 - 20149 Milano - Italy tel (+39) 02 460412 - (+39) 02 89691513 Fax (+39) 02 99985446 • www.wickymusic.com •[email protected] • PIVA 09835240152 • C.C.I.A.A. 1320610 A Jouney to Italy Program PRIMO TEMPO (approx. 41 min.) Risen by Nunzio Ortolano Benacus by Roberto di Marino La leggenda di S. Nicola (The legend of Saint Nicholas) by Sergio Monterisi Omaggio a Gulda by Nunzio Ortolano Vado via! and Grands Boulevards by Sergio Monterisi Elegia by Nunzio Ortolano --------------------------------------SECONDO TEMPO (approx. 46 min.) Divertissement by Stefano Martinotti City Life by Roberto Di Marino Suite from “Il Bambino e La Guerra” by Nunzio Ortolano Cantu d’Amuri by Nunzio Ortolano Sorgi Palermo by Antonio Fortunato Souvenir di Napoli by Marco Marzi. Edizioni Musicali Wicky s.a.s. - Via G. Previati 32 - 20149 Milano - Italy tel (+39) 02 460412 - (+39) 02 89691513 Fax (+39) 02 99985446 • www.wickymusic.com •[email protected] • PIVA 09835240152 • C.C.I.A.A. 1320610 A Jouney to Italy The Authors Nunzio Ortolano is a Sicilian composer and is the main exponent of the essentialism, a music genre born in Milano at the end of the nineties to reform the field of serious music with the aim to spread new classical music among the general public. His music is regularly performed in the main concert halls and theaters in the world, like Teatro Massimo, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro alla Scala, at the UCF in Orlando, at the The Gothenburg Opera. Roberto Di Marino is a composer and exponent of the essentialism. His music is performed, among others, by The Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano, the S. Cecilia Orchestra of Rome, the Zagreb soloists, the Croatian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Prokofiev Orchestra of Moscow and the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra, the Berliner Philharmoniker. The Japanese violinist Iwao Furusawa recorded his two concerts for violin and string for the record label HATS. Stefano Martinotti His compositions have been commissioned and performed at the Teatro La Fenice and at the Teatro Malibran in Venice, by I Solisti della Scala, I Pomeriggi Musicali, the Orchestra “Guido Cantelli , the Ensemble Epistrophé, Fiati Ensemble and in countries such as Austria, Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland and Ukraine. He teaches Film music soundtrack writing at the film school “Cinelife” in Milan. Sergio Monterisi composer and conductor. He is author of compositions for piano, choir, vocal music and chamber music. His opera Il gigante egoista has been represented for two season at the Opera of Nice. The one act opera Schicchi e Puccini A prologue to Schicchi, winner of the competition “Opera Nuova 2013” debuted with success in the opera season 2014 of the Teatro Municipale of Piacenza. Antonio Fortunato pianist, teacher and composer, his compositions range from chamber music to symphonic music, from sacred music to opera. His music is performed all over the world and has received numerous awards, among them the UNESCO award. Marco Marzi Composer and clarinetis. He is organist and choirmaster at the SS James and Christopher Parish of Cerro al Lambro, teaches musical education at the Melegnano’s P. Frisi junior high school and is artistic director of the Instrumental Group “HortusHarmonicus”. Edizioni Musicali Wicky s.a.s. - Via G. Previati 32 - 20149 Milano - Italy tel (+39) 02 460412 - (+39) 02 89691513 Fax (+39) 02 99985446 • www.wickymusic.com •[email protected] • PIVA 09835240152 • C.C.I.A.A. 1320610 A Jouney to Italy The Music Risen by Nunzio Ortolano Thanks to this symphony ,that develops in a crescendo of emotion and timbre blending, you can grasp the typical features of the Italian music, breaking with traditional representations. Benacus by Roberto di Marino is a piece dedicated to the Garda lake. The composition exalts the distinctive features of this place, materializing in music the landscape of the lake in all its complexity. La leggenda di S. Nicola (The legend of Saint Nicholas) by Sergio Monterisi tells the legend of San Nicola from Bari, a city in the south of Italy where the Church of San Nicola is located, destination of Russian pilgrims when they are in Italy. Omaggio a Gulda by Nunzio Ortolano. This composition for Cello and Orchestra is a sincere tribute of the composer to Friedrich Gulda (Austrian pianist and composer 1930 - 2000). Definitely a great opportunity to enhance the pop language of the instrument. Vado via! and Grands Boulevards by Sergio Monterisi are two arias taken from the opera “I Fantasmi dell’Opera” by Sergio Monterisi. In the opera the characters of Puccini’s operas meet on a empty stage of a theatre hoping to find another story to interpret. In “Vado via!” Tosca gets angry with an author that since long time promises to write a new opera for her. Mimì in “Grand Boulevards” imagines an extraordinary life she will never get: her only consolation is the eternal love for Rodolfo. Elegia by Nunzio Ortolano. This Aria was written by Nunzio Ortolano to commemorate the victims of the earthquake and Tsunami that hit Japan in 2011. It premiered in the Vatican during a concert to honour the victims and has been performed in the most important theaters in Japan. Divertissement by Stefano Martinotti is a twinning, in musical terms, between the cities of Milano and Saint Petersburg. The piece is made by a series of variations, originated from a folksong of the Milanese Risorgimento and from a Russian song. The composition is easy to listen but written with a cultural musical language. City Life by Roberto Di Marino. City Life is a new an modern residential area of Milano near to the headquarter of Edizioni Musicali Wicky, the music publishing company of the composer. The composition is tribute to this area that, as Edizioni Musicali Wicky, represents the creativity, the elegance and the desire to innovate the cultural field. Suite from “Il Bambino e La Guerra” by Nunzio Ortolano. A tale in music about the war, observed, thought and lived through the eyes of a child. An original work that invites reflection on the uselessness of the conflict between men. Cantu d’Amuri by Ortolano. In Sicilian dialect “Cantu d’amuri” means song of love. This composition for soprano is exactly a love song. Sorgi Palermo by Antonio Fortunato. A song of hope from the lyrical opera “Falcone e Borsellino”, a tribute to the two Italian magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino and all the other victims of the Mafia, and a message of renewal and rebirth through music and poetry. Souvenir di Napoli by Marco Marzi. Thanks to this composition the sounds, songs, characters and the atmospheres of the tradition of Naples will live again. Edizioni Musicali Wicky s.a.s. - Via G. Previati 32 - 20149 Milano - Italy tel (+39) 02 460412 - (+39) 02 89691513 Fax (+39) 02 99985446 • www.wickymusic.com •[email protected] • PIVA 09835240152 • C.C.I.A.A. 1320610