The Monumental Complex of the Pilotta inaugurates Musica in Pilotta, the new chamber music festival created in collaboration with the Arturo Toscanini Foundation, scheduled from September 2024 to May 2025.
The initiative consists of nine concerts held by the musicians of La Toscanini combined with short stories about works of art, documents and materials preserved in the Palatina Library, the National Gallery, the Archaeological Museum and the Bodoni Museum.
Program
WITH THIN GRACES
September 15, 2024 | 11.00 am
Pilotta Monumental Complex – Music Hall
duration: approximately 65 minutes
Duo La Toscanini
Mihaela Costea violin
Davide Burani harp
PAGANINI Cantabile
THOMAS Romanza da Mignon
SAINT- SAËNS Fantasia op. 124
MASSENET Méditation by Thaïs
FAURÉ Après un rêve n. 1 op. 7
ELGAR Salut d’amour op. 12
GREENS Introduction and finale from the third act from I Lombardi to the first crusade
TEDESCHI Elegy
DIVERSE STORIES
October 20, 2024 | 11.00 am
Pilotta Monumental Complex – Music Hall La Toscanini String Quartet
duration: approximately 60 minutes
Daniele Ruzza, Camilla Mozzanti violins
Behrang Rassekhi viola
Pietro Nappi cello
MALIPIERO Quartet No. 1 Rispetti e Strambotti
SCHUBERT Quartet No. 14 “Death and the Maiden”
DRAWING THE AIR
November 21, 2024 | 11.00 am
Pilotta Monumental Complex – Music Hall
duration: approximately 50 minutes
Toscanini Philharmonic Reed Trio
Gian Piero Fortini oboe
Daniele Titti clarinet
Davide Fumagalli bassoon
MOZART Divertimento No. 1 in B flat major
BEETHOVEN Trio in C major
BEETHOVEN Variations on the theme “Là ci darem la mano”
LANDSCAPES OF THE SOUL
December 15, 2024 | 11.00 am
Pilotta Monumental Complex – Music Hall
duration: approximately 60 minutes
String Quintet La Toscanini and mezzosoprano
Viktoria Borissova, Elia Torreggiani violins
Ilaria Negrotti viola
Fabio Gaddoni cello
Claudio Saguatti double bass
with the participation of
Aloisa Aisemberg mezzosoprano approximate duration 60 minutes
VILLA-LOBOS String Quartet n. 5
GUASTAVINO Se misunderstand la paloma, Ojos de tempo, La rosa y el sauce
GINASTERA Cancion al arbol del olvido
GOMES Sant’Anna (minuet)
GARDEL Volver, El dia que me quieras, Por una cabeza
SALGÀN A Don Augustin Bardi
PIAZZOLLA Los Paraguas de Buenos Aires, J’oublie, Oblivion, Death of the Angel, I am Maria
EYE ON THE SHAPE
January 19, 2025 | 11.00 am
Pilotta Monumental Complex – Music Hall
duration: approximately 50 minutes
La Toscanini String Sextet
Alessandro Cannizzaro, Elia Torreggiani violins
Ilaria Negrotti, Sara Screpis violas
Maria Cristina Mazza, Fabio Gaddoni cellos
BORODIN String Sextet in D minor
BRAHMS String Sextet No. 1
DANZAS CONCERTANTES: trough Cuba, Mexico and Argentina
16th February 2025 | 11.00 a.m.
duration: 60 minutes
Monumental Complex of the Pilotta – Music Hall
Ospitalità Società dei concerti
Duo Guión
Nicolò Bertano guitar (winner of the Contest Joung Talents whitin nell’ambito del Paganini Guitar Festival 2024)
Gabriele Viada accordion
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA (1921–1992) Histoire du Tango
LEO BROUWER (1939) Allegro from Tre Danze Concertanti (*)
MANUEL MARìA PONCE (1882–1948) Sonata per Chitarra e Clavicembalo (*)
TOMAS GUBITSCH (1957) Villa Luro
*transcription by Duo Guìon
LIVE PRESENCES
March 16, 2025 | 11.00 am
Pilotta Monumental Complex – Music Hall
approximate duration 55 minutes
Mihaela Costea violin
Diana Cahanescu cello
Ruben Micieli piano
Francesco Migliarini percussion
SOSTAKOVIC Symphony No. 15
(arr. Viktor Derevianko)
NIGHT EFFECT
April 20, 2025 | 11.00 am
Pilotta Monumental Complex – Music Hall
Approximate duration 60 minutes
Daniele Titti, Elisa Gubert, Miriam Caldarini basset horns
Samantha Faina, Barbara Massaro sopranos
Giacomo Pieracci bass
MOZART
Two lovely eyes (nocturne)
If far away, my love, you are (nocturne)
Here is that proud moment (nocturne)
I will complain in silence (nocturne)
Dear lights, beautiful lights (nocturne)
They are no longer found (little song)
Divertimenti for three basset horns (selection)
Arias from The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, Die Zauberflöte
FAVORITA AND DELFINA
May 11, 2025 | 11.00 am
Monumental complex of the Pilotta – Music Hall
duration: approximately 60 minutes
Chiara De Zuani harpsichord
Lorenzo Montenz harp
DE VISÉE Allemande “La royale”, Courante, Sarabande, Gavotte, Chaconne, Mascarade BAUR Folies d’Espagne
HAENDEL Suite HWV 448
PAISIELLO Overture from La frascatana
SCARLATTI Sonata K 70
PETRINI Duo op. 30