Poggi del Sasso, July 1 (askanews) – A grand and eclectic opening on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 June for the first Baccus weekend of the Amiata Piano Festival, with a precious chamber music sextet, led by founders Maurizio Baglini and Silvia Chiesa, on rare twentieth-century music for piano, strings and percussion. We spoke with Maurizio Baglini, artistic director:
“It is an edition that must act as a prelude to the twentieth, we are warming our hearts towards what has been the development of a territory. I would say that the festival was born first and then all this development. All the restoration of what was the restoration of the agritourisms and the integration between the indigenous factor and the fact that an international audience could come was born and was developed thanks to the Bertarelli foundation, it is a story between Claudio Tipa, Maria Tipa, Maria Elis Bertarelli and myself who as a musician had the dream of bringing music to such a remote place”.
Silvia Chiesa, resident artist, also spoke: “It’s a very interesting program, we’ll start with a classical formation with violin and piano and then cello-piano, with pieces by Strauss and Respighi. Then a second part that includes this transcription by Derevianco of Ostakòvi’s Symphony No. 15, an immense piece with incredible color because we’re in the presence of violin, cello and piano. Three percussionists are added with thirteen percussion instruments, so you’ll hear lots of timbres that have to reproduce or re-propose the content of all the instruments in the symphony. Great commitment from everyone and great attention to the dynamics, color and timbres of the instruments”.
Great music returns to enliven the country nights of the Amiata slopes for an increasingly aware and quality cultural tourism.
