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Autunno in Musica
IVth edition
The French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici
16 – 30 October 2014
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The French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici presents the fourth edition of the
festival Autunno in Musica from 16 to 30 October 2014. The festival, created in
2011, aims to celebrate the musical bond between France and Italy. Organized by
the French Academy in Rome – which has welcomed composers as fellows since
1803 – Autunno in Musica will enable the public to listen to well-known works, but
also to discover lesser known treasures of a musical repertoire closely linked to the
history of the Prix de Rome, a distinction awarded to the most talented artists in
order to give them the opportunity to perfect their training at the French Academy in
Rome.
This fourth edition of Autunno in Musica proposes an original sophisticated program
with renowned names such as Claude Debussy, Prix de Rome in 1884, as well as
lesser-known composers Théodore Dubois or Gaston Salvayre, also winners of the
prestigious prize. «Refusés» composers Benjamin Godard, Ernest Chausson and,
above all Maurice Ravel, who in 1905 was only awarded Second Prix de Rome,
causing a great controversy, are also represented. Important women composers will
be well represented by Nadia Boulanger, Marie Jaëll, Henriette Renié and Cécile
Chaminade.
The program of this edition revisits a fundamental phase of the cultural and artistic
bonds between France and Italy: the beginnings of World War I, whose hundredth
anniversary we are celebrating this year. The anxieties and concerns generated by
the conflict had a marked effect on several fellows in residence at the French
Academy in Rome, veiling their works with melancholy. The year 2014 also
celebrates the 250th anniversary of the death of Jean-Philippe Rameau, one of the
Enlightenment’s most important composers.
Among the many illustrious musicians in the program will be Blandine Rannou, one
of the most highly regarded harpsichord players of today, the baroque music
ensemble Les Folies françoises, but also young artists such as David Bismuth,
one of the most promising pianists of his generation in Europe, Emmanuel Ceysson,
young harp soloist in the orchestra of the Opéra de Paris, the Trio Arcadis who won
third prize at the International Competition of Chamber Music in Lyon and mezzosoprano Isabelle Druet.
As in the previous years, this new edition of Autunno in Musica has been organized
in dynamic collaboration with Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique
française and the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, in partnership with the
Accademia Filarmonica Romana, which will host the concert on October 30.
The festival opens Thursday, October 16 (presentation of the program at 7.45 p.m.,
concert 8.30 p.m.) with the concert entitled In the country where war is waged (Au
pays où se fait la guerre), with the performances of mezzo-soprano Isabelle Druet,
who divides herself between opera, recitals and concerts, and the Quatuor Giardini,
made up of David Violi (piano), Pascal Monlong (violin), Caroline Donin (viola),
Pauline Buet (cello), committed to the discovery of little-known repertoires. The public
can listen to pieces by Nadia Boulanger, Claude Debussy, Gaetano Donizetti,
Jacques Offenbach and Gabriel Fauré.
Friday, October 17 (presentation of the program at 7.45 p.m., concert 8.30 p.m.) the
Trio Arcadis will be on stage for a concert entitled From one postwar period to
another. The trio, made up of David Bismuth (piano), Amandine Ley (violin) and
Nicolas Saint-Yves (cello), will perform works by Gabriel Fauré, Gaston Salvayre and
Ernest Chausson.
Saturday, October 18 (presentation of the program at 7.45 p.m., concert 8.30 p.m.)
David Bismuth, pianist renowned for his deep luminous sound where the science of
architecture blends in perfectly with the poetry of timbre, will perform works by
Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Cécile Chaminade and Marie Jaëll.
The protagonist of the concert on Sunday, October 19 (presentation of the program
at 5.15 p.m. concert 6.00 p.m.) is Emmanuel Ceysson, who will play works by Carlos
Salzedo, Gabriel Fauré, André Caplet and Henriette Renié on the harp, French
Romantic instrument par excellence.
Wednesday, October 29 (8.30 p.m.) will be the turn of Les Folies françoises with a
program entitled Rameau, a gallery of portraits. The quartet, consisting of Arnaud
Richard (bass-baritone), Patrick Cohën-Akenine (violin), Christine Plubeau (viola da
gamba) and Béatrice Martin (harpsichord), was created in 2000. Their mission is the
revival of Baroque music of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. The quartet will perform
songs by Jean-Philippe Rameau and Antoine Forqueray for the Rome public.
Thursday, October 30 (8.30 p.m.) Autunno in Musica will close with a concert at the
Accademia Filarmonica Romana entitled Focus Rameau: the triumph of the
harpsichord. Blandine Rannou will be on stage playing the harpsichord, the
foremost instrument of XVIIth century Parisian salons, dedicating the entire concert to
Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin by Jean-Philippe Rameau.
For the concerts on 16, 17, 18, 19 and 29 October
The French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici
Concerts: 18 euro (full price) – 10 euro (reduced price)
The concerts will be presented by Alexandre Dratwicki (Palazzetto Bru Zane – Centre de
musique romantique française) – presentation: admittance free
Pre-sales at Box Office Lazio (www.boxofficelazio.it) and at the French Academy in Rome –
Villa Medici during ticket office opening hours (from Tuesday to Sunday, 11.00 a.m.- 6.30
p.m.) starting 6 October.
Ticket office opens at 7.30 p.m. on concert days.
Concert-workshop for schools: bookings in the limits of available seats.
[email protected] / T. 06 67 61 243
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For 30 October concert:
Accademia Filarmonica Romana
Tickets: 10 euro (single tariff)
Pre-sales on Vivaticket (www.vivaticket.it)
On the day of the concert the ticket office opens at 7.30 p.m. at the Sala Casella.
Accademia Filarmonica Romana
Via Flaminia, 118 – 00196 Rome
T. +39 06 32 01 752
www.filarmonicaromana.org
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