After a three-week break, the concert series “The Spring Concerts”, curated by the Ellipsis Musical Association, returns Monday 6 May at 8.30 pm in the Sassu room of “Luigi Canepa” Conservatory of Sassari. In the eighth appointment of the concert cycle the duo formed by will be on stage Duccio Beluffi (violet) And Ferdinando Baroffio (piano).
The evening will open with the Sonata op. 120 n°1 in F minor by Johannes Brahms, one of the composer’s last works, composed for clarinet (or viola) and piano. Written in 1894, together with its “twin” No. 2 in E flat major, it was performed with Brahms himself on the piano in the same year and then, publicly, in Vienna in 1895, two years before his death.
Two compositions by Robert will then follow Schumann. The Märchenbilder op. will be performed. 113, four pieces for viola and piano with a fairy-tale atmosphere, written in March 1851 and performed for the first time at the Hôtel “Am golden Stern” in Bonn on 12 November 1853. Below, the Adagio e allegro op. 70, composed by Schumann in 1849 originally for horn and piano, in the period immediately following the introduction of the three-piston F horn in Germany. The piece will still be performed later, even replacing the horn with the cello, the violin or, indeed, the viola.
Duccio Beluffigraduated in violin in Milan and graduated from the Superior Conservatory of Geneva under the guidance of Corrado Romano, he studied chamber music with Norbert Brainin, Stevan Gheorgyu, Dario De Rosa and Thomas Brandis and string quartet with Franco Rossi, under whose guide formed the Elisa Quartet of which he was first violin for over twenty years, recording around ten CDs for numerous Italian and foreign record companies (including the only existing recording of Bottesini’s string quartets) holding over 300 concerts in Worldwide.
In 1997 he won, first among those eligible, the International Competition at the Teatro alla Scala. Also interested in the viola, he graduated with honors in this instrument in 2008 and immediately won the competition for first viola at the Teatro S. Carlo in Naples. In 2009 he won the audition as first viola at the London Philharmonic. He was then invited to collaborate with the Berliner Philharmoniker Camerata Ensemble. In 2014 he won the position of first solo viola at the Gran Teatre Liceu in Barcelona. As a violist he recorded Mozart’s flute quartets with Franco Gulli and Sir James Galway, giving concerts with Salvatore Accardo in a string quintet.
Ferdinando Baroffio he graduated in Milan and then specialized, among others, with Bruno Canino, M. Sirbu, C. Chiarappa, D. Shafran, G. Cambursano, Pier Narciso Masi. Ranked first in numerous national and international competitions, he carries out concert activity in Italy and abroad, playing both as a soloist and in chamber ensembles for prestigious musical associations (GOG, Gioventù Musicale, Musica Rara, Incontri col Maestro, Asolomusica, Agimus, Schlosskonzerte, Adiam, La Biennale di Venezia, Asam, Stresa Musical Weeks, Musikverein Vienna).
He plays four hands with his wife Chiara Nicora exploring the repertoire ranging from classicism to the present day and two pianos with Corrado Greco; he is also the founder of the Trio Estense, with instrumentalists from the Teatro alla Scala, and performs regularly with the flautist Barbara Tartari with whom he won the “Rospigliosi” competition in Pistoia in 2001.
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