Sunday 9 June at 6pm Church of the Annunziata in Pesaro The sphinx with the ironic smilethird appointment dedicated to Chopin Of Listening guidelessons/concert organized by Maestro Mario Totaroteacher at the G. Rossini Conservatory of Pesaro, promoted by Gioachino Rossini Philharmonic Orchestra with the Municipality of Pesaroin collaboration with AMAT, Marche region and the support of Klein Systems.
Having become a regular event on Sundays in Pesaro over the years, the event offers a precious opportunity for those who want to deepen their knowledge of authors or musical styles, or for those who just want to get closer to European musical culture. The 2024 edition is dedicated to Early Romanticsfive great composers born in the early 19th century who inaugurated the so-called “Musical Romanticism”, Hector Berlioz, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Fryderyk Chopin, Robert Schumann and Franz Liszt. These musicians, profoundly different from each other even if often united by great friendships, have contributed, each in their own way, to ferrying music from Beethoven’s premonitions to a new world that prefigures the great challenges and innovations of the 20th century.
The miracle of Chopin’s music, which makes it almost unique, lies in the perfect balance summarized by his friend Franz Liszt: «In him exuberance does not exclude clarity, singularity never degenerates into extravagance, ornamentation does not overload the elegance”.
In Sunday’s meeting we chose to focus on a single work, the Sonata no. 2 op. 35, a work that was not understood for a long time, not even by the most eminent musicians, but which alone disproves the cliché according to which Chopin was not a “builder” capable of dealing with wide-ranging forms. In it, in fact, compositional techniques are used, also present in the last Beethoven, capable of producing a surprising unity in the plurality of situations. The Sonata no. 2, composed between 1837 and 1839, with its singularity and the questions it still raises today, justifies its appearance in an era in which the sonata was no longer a “natural” form but could only be “exceptional” .
Courtesy ticket 5 euros. Ticket office at the Rossini Theater 0721 387621 and vivaticket circuit also online, at the Chiesa dell’Annunziata 334 3193717 on the day of the concert from 5pm.
