Francesco Libetta

There is something of the renaissance gentleman in Francesco Libetta, who is knowledgeable about music as well as literature and all other forms of art. And is a great deal of the last century’s virtuosi. Not only due to his vast repertoire, but also thanks to his exceptional technical capability, he is obliged to face increasingly difficult objectives and regularly permitted to achieve them. Imagination, originality, curiosity for everything that is unusual, not normal, different, amusing: these are the characteristics of Francesco Libetta’s always surprising performances. In cooperation with Naïve and with the Festival de La Roque d’Anthéron, director Bruno Monsaingeon has made a film and a DVD dedicated to his interpretations and his figure as an artist, while Jonathan Tolansky dedicated a reportage to him in the series “Soloist of the Century” shown on the British TV channel RTE. His CDs and videos are published by Agorà (Italy) and VAI (United States). His multiform career as a composer, a conductor and pianist have taken Libetta to play in concerts all over the world, and to receive commissions from associations and Festivals in Europe, Japan and American for orchestra, chamber and electro-acoustic music. In 2005 he made an extremely successful debut at the “A. Benedetti Michelangeli” International Festival held in Brescia and Bergamo.

sunday march 11th 2007 at 6 P.M.
The Savio Theatre

FRANCESCO LIBETTA
piano

«La nascita del pittoresco nello spirito
della musica»

NICOLA FAGO
Toccata in G major.
GIOVANNI MARIA TRABACI
Gagliarda II
LEONARDO LEO
Song of the despised from Amor vuol sofferenze
(tr. F. Libetta)
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Six variations in F major K 398 on the aria
«Salve tu, Domine»
from I filosofi immaginari by Paisiello
GIOVANNI PAISIELLO
Hymn
MERCADANTE/LISZT
The sailor’s serenade
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Albumblatt
FRANZ LISZT
Song «Nessun Mayr dolore»
from Othello by Rossini
Tarantella, from a Neapolitan song
by Guillaume Louis Cottrau



FRANCO ALFANO
Se taci… (transcr. P. Mijic)
L. VAN BEETHOVEN
Sonata quasi Fantasia in C sharp minor op. 27 no. 2 «Moonlight»
GÄRTNER/FRIEDMAN
Viennese dance no. 1
FRANZ LISZT
Polonaise from the Evgenij Onegin by Cajkovskij
CHOPIN/SGAMBATI
Lithuanian song
MILIJ BALAKIREV
Islamey