Agenda – Matinèe Concert – Concert for 4 hands
The conversational and somewhat lounge-like atmosphere of the four-hand piano returns to cheer the concert audience on Sunday 22 January at 10:30, scheduled in the Sala Musica in the Mendrisiotto as part of the XLV Music Season in the Mendrisiotto. In fact, the matinee sees guests Marco Schiavo and Sergio Marchegiani, a duo with a very personal executive style that has long been appreciated on the international scene.
We will start with the Splendid Fantasy op. 103 D. 940 in F minor by Franz Schubert, in four movements in free sonata form, with a “cyclical” return of the thematic material. Composed between January and April 1828 and dedicated to the Countess Caroline Esterhàzy, it was published after the composer’s death and begins with a Largo which is a sort of homage to Italian art, given that in that very year, the last of his life, Schubert was able to listen to Paganini saying he heard an angel sing. The concert will continue with the Andante and 5 variations K 501 in G major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, written in Vienna on November 4, 1786 and fruit of the composer’s inspiration for improvisation, with virtuosic performances in front of Prague and Vienna audiences. The theme returns wrapped up in increasingly dense figurations in a masterpiece of “concerted grace”. Sonata K 357 in G major in two movements will follow. Rossini ending, with the transcription for piano four hands of the overture from the opera “La gazza ladra”.
Sergio Marchegiani and Marco Schiavo have formed one of the most active piano duos on the Italian and international scene since 2006, with hundreds of concerts all over the world, in prestigious halls such as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Philharmonie in Berlin and the Musikverein in Vienna. They have performed with leading orchestras and recorded for radio and television stations. They are Decca artists, a house that in 2014 released their first CD dedicated to Franz Schubert. In 2018 the second album was released with the Hungarian Dances and the Waltzes op. 39 by Brahms and, in 2020, the third disc with the Concerts for two pianos K. 242 and K. 365 by Mozart and the Piano Concerto for 4 hands by Kozeluch. In 2021 here is “Mozart for two”, entirely dedicated to Mozart’s Sonatas. Marchegiani and Schiavo studied with Küszler, Lonquich, Canino. They teach in the Conservatories of Alessandria and Potenza.
Steinway Piano Grand Concert made available by the Mendrisio Association “Mario Luzi Poetry of the World”, as part of the musical section dedicated to Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, chaired by Paolo Andrea Mettel
Difficult access for the disabled due to stairs
Entry 20.– | Reduced* 15.– ** 10.–
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**MUSIC MEMBERS IN THE MENDRSIOTTO
Free entry for children up to 16 years and CSI students