• summer at MAXXI L'Aquila • music Brahms & Rota
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Nino Rota’s elegant and dramatic style meets the lyrical depth of Johannes Brahms.
Spanning the Italian 20th century and the height of German Romanticism, two works united by an extraordinary expressive intensity come together.
Composed in 1958 by Rota, the Trio for Flute, Violin and Piano reveals with crystalline elegance the composer’s dual nature: the refinement of academic counterpoint is interwoven with that cantabile, airy and slightly ironic vein that runs through his entire oeuvre. The dialogue between the flute and violin weaves melodies of crystalline transparency, supported by a piano that at times accompanies discreetly, at others asserts itself with luminous solo passages.
Composed in 1865 shortly after his mother’s death, the Trio Op. 40 is one of the most distinctive works in the Romantic chamber music repertoire. Brahms deliberately chose the natural horn, known as the Waldhorn, rather than the modern valved horn, seeking that ancient, velvety and wild timbre capable of evoking the forests and landscapes of his youth in Hamburg. The result is music of unusual elegiac depth, in which personal mourning is sublimated into absolute formal beauty.
musicians
Tommaso Lungheu violin
Andrea Granati horn
Alessia Salustri flute
Paolo Canale piano
Under the patronage of the Municipality of L’Aquila and with the support of ALES. In collaboration with the “Alfredo Casella” Conservatory of Music.
