Palazzo Marino in Music. “In the ideal world from Canova to Beethoven”, the 2020 season starts on Sunday

The appointment with music in Sala Alessi returns for the third consecutive year. In concert the pianist Francesco Libetta. Free entry with reservation

Milan, January 29 2020 - The happy collaboration between the exhibition continues for the third consecutive year Palazzo Marino in Music and the Gallerie d'Italia – Piazza Scala, in the concerts that accompany the prestigious exhibitions set up in the Intesa Sanpaolo museum.
Palazzo Marino in Music, a review organized by EquiVoci Musicali and now in its IX Edition, thus inaugurates the first part of the 2020 Season with two concerts that are similar to and inspired by the works exhibited in the Canova | Thorvaldsen. The birth of modern sculpture. Central to both concerts will be the figure of Ludwig van Beethoven - whose 250th anniversary is this year's birth - a contemporary of Antonio Canova and the Dane Bertel Thorvaldsen. The musical genius thus meets the most important neoclassical sculptors of his time. Alongside the works of Beethoven and other composers, two musical pieces composed by the pianist Francesco Libetta and the cellist Cosimo Carovani will be performed for the first time, inspired by the sculptures of Canova exhibited in the exhibition, in particular Venus and Apollo.

On Sunday 2 February, at 11:00, he will perform in Sala Alessi di Palazzo Marino the pianist Francesco Libetta with the concert entitled "Libetta meets Venus": the program is designed as a journey on movement, dynamism and dance in music. It opens with the ballet music Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Op. 43 by Beethoven and continues with the piece Un petit train de plaisir by Rossini. In the second part of the program Libetta will perform the Danze Imaginarie by the contemporary composer Giampaolo Testoni, written in 2019 at the request of the pianist Francesco Libetta himself and dedicated to him, and the ballet Sylvia by Léo Delibes. The concert closes, for the first time, with the ballet Venus de Miami, composed by Libetta taking inspiration from Canova's Venus and modern, hybrid creatures that use or are made up of prosthetics, symbolic or real. The ballet is set in Miami along the legendary Ocean Drive route and reflects, through music, on the power of technology and the contemporary aspiration to the ideal of beauty.

On Sunday 3 March, again at 11:00, the young and promising cellist Cosimo Carovani will play in the Alessi Hall together with the pianist Stefano Ligoratti. The duo offers a program that opens with the Notturno sull'acqua op. 82a by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and continues with the Sonata n. 3 op. 69 by Beethoven and with the Sonata op. 119 by Prokofiev. In conclusion, Cosimo Carovani will present, again in the world premiere, Elegia "di dardi e cetra", a piece inspired by Apollino by Canova, a sculpture exhibited in the exhibition at the Gallerie d'Italia - Piazza Scala.

In the ideal world. From Canova to Beethoven

Sunday February 2 2020, 11:00

Libetta meets Venus

Francesco Libetta, piano

Programme:

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)

Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus op. 43

Ballet by Salvatore Viganò

(piano version by the composer)

Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868)

A little train of pleasure

(scéne in the comic-imitation style)

Giampaolo Testoni (1957)

Imaginary Dances

(with Simone Mao, piano)

Léo Delibes (1836–1891)

Sylvia

(or La Nymphe de Diane)

Francesco Libetta (1968)

Venus of Miami

(or The creatures of Prosthesis)

Ballet

Sunday 1 March 2020, 11:00 am

Carovani, Ligoratti and the god of love

Cosimo Carovani, cello

Stefano Ligoratti, piano

Programme:

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968)

Nocturne on the water op. 82a

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Sonata No. 3 op. 69

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

Sonata op. 119

Cosimo Carovani (1991)

Elegy “of darts and zither”

Free entry with reservation.

80 free tickets can be reserved online on the site www.palazzomarinoinmusica.it starting from 10.00 on the Thursday before each concert.

Another 40 tickets will be available at the Gallerie d'Italia – Piazza Scala ticket office in Piazza della Scala 6, starting from 10.00 am on the Thursday before each concert. It will be possible to collect up to two tickets per person.

For security reasons, at the entrance of Palazzo Marino Participants will be asked to show their identity document.

The review Palazzo Marino in Music, created in collaboration with the Presidency of the City Council, is supported by Intesa Sanpaolo and is organized by the EquiVoci Musicali Association. The artistic direction is by Davide Santi and Rachel O'Brien. Artistic consultant is prof. Ettore Napoli.

The collaboration of Palazzo Marino in Music with the Gallerie d'Italia – Piazza Scala also sees the continuation of the fourth cycle of concerts within the exhibition Canova | Thorvaldsen. The birth of modern sculpture inaugurated in November 2019. The initiative, entitled Listening to Canova, is a musical accompaniment in the exhibition rooms, an opportunity to prolong, through music, the vibrations and emotions that marble, the material and the works exhibited offer visitors. The last musical event will be held on Thursday 13 February, at 19.00 pm, and will see the harpist Claudia Beatrice Zanini perform at the Gallerie d'Italia - Piazza Scala with music by Gioachino Rossini, Pietro Domenico Paradisi, Domenico Cimarosa and Jan Ladislav Dussek. The concert can be accessed with the entrance ticket to the exhibition.

Palazzo Marino in Music

Season 2020, IX Edition

Alessi Room - Palazzo Marino

Artistic Direction: Davide Santi and Rachel O'Brien

Artistic consultant: Ettore Napoli

Production assistant: Francesca Napoli

Organization: EquiVoci Musicali

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