PianoNovecento 2021

PianoNovecento was born in 2019 by an idea of Riccardo Sandiford as a musical project mainly dedicated to the piano production of the last century and as a conservation and protection plan for the huge repertoire produced in the Twentieth Century.

In this third year of concert programming, which will be held as always in the cloister of the Museo Novecento in Florence, therefore, we will be able to attend traditional classical concerts, historical and contemporary jazz and multimedia performances with original music.

Renowned pianists and instrumentalists, creative artists and composers and even emerging young people, chosen from the most prestigious national musical institutions, will perform for eight evenings in the museum cloister, with free admission, giving life to an evocative and varied festival.

The recipe will not be “going back to the ancient and progress”, but the exchange between the present and the past, between the popular, the cultured and the extra-cultured, between the visual language and the sound one.
The museum will be a meeting place for everyone between “conservation” and “innovation”, between “lovers” of traditions and “curious” users of novelties: in short, modernity.

3 July 2021 at 9.00 pm

Alessandra Ammara piano

With:

M. Ravel (Ciboure 1875 – Paris 1937)
Jeux d’eau

G. Scelsi (La Spezia 1905 – Rome 1968)
Three preludes

A. Skrjabin (Moscow 1872 – Moscow 1915)
Sonata n.5 op. 53

C. Debussy (Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1862 – Paris 1918)
Préludes (deuxiême libre)

17 July 2021 at 9.00 pm
Fondazione Scuola di Musica di Fiesole

Eos Saxophone Project

Tiziana Maccherini sax soprano
Gabriele Nardoni sax alto
Giovanni Uscidda sax alto
Matteo Brandini sax tenor
Niccolò Menghini sax tenor
Carmen Greco sax tenor
Giulia Fidenti sax baritone

Cortometraggio

musics by Y. Tiersen, Cl. Mansell, H. Zimmer, A. Piazzolla, J. Corigliano, A. Iglesias.

29 July 2021 at 9.00 pm

Tutto Questo Sentire Unique Act, part II

Olivia Salvadori voice, based on texts by Michelangelo Buonarroti (original TQS commission); Sandro Mussida, live electronics
Nicola Ratti modular synthesizers
Rebecca Salvadori a/v original works by the artist

9 September 2021 at 9.00 pm

Fondazione Scuola di musica di Fiesole
Dedicated to Dante – in the Florentine Summer

Elena Cecchi Fedi soprano
Umberto Chiummo baritone
Paolo Gonnelli piano

G.Rossini
from Inferno canto V, versi 127 e seg.
Francesca da Rimini*

C. Pinsuti
from La Vita Nuova Sonetto XXVI “Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare” a Beatrice*
from Canzoniere di Petrarca Sonetto 302 “levommi il mio pensier” a Laura

S.Tanejev
from La Vita Nuova Sonetto XXXII “Venite a intender li sospiri miei”
op.26 n.2

G.Puccini
from Inferno canto V, versi 127 e seg.
Storiella d’amore

F.Liszt
from Canzoniere di Petrarca

Sonetto 104 Pace non trovo (1883 Seconda versione)
Sonetto 47 Benedetto sia il giorno (1846 Prima versione)
Sonetto 123 I’ vidi in terra angelici costumi (1883 Seconda versione)

M.Castelnuovo Tedesco
4 sonets from vita nuova
Sonet IX “Cavalcando l’altr’ier per un cammino”
Sonet XXI “Negli occhi porta la mia donna amore”
Sonet XXVI “Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare”
Sonet XL “Deh, peregrini che pensosi andate”

from Purgatorio Canto VIII, versi 1 e seg.
Sera

G.Donizetti

from Inferno canto XXXIII *