Pinuccia Giarmanà and Marco Giovanetti

In recent decades the theme of travel, dear to the musical Romanticism, has experienced renewed popularity. Composers and performers in fact are approaching this theme increasingly often, perceiving the chance to revisit not only the culture of a specific country, but also and above all this culture’s interaction with “other” cultures, as well as its insertion in that koinè of languages that characterises modern times. It is in this sense that the musical journey evolves as proposed by the piano duo from Milan, Pinuccia Giarmanà and Marco Giovanetti, who have also recorded this music. In the first part of the programme we encounter the sounds, the colours and the fragrances of Spain as imagined and idealised by French composers such as Debussy, Ravel, and Chabrier, who evoke this country however with the instrumental preciousness typical of early 20th century Parisian music. In the second part the scene moves to Latin America, a fertile land for the integration of Spanish style and autochthon cultures characterised by the rhythmic vitality of the dances, the suggestion of which affected “travelling” composers such as Frenchman Milhaud and the American Copland.

sunday november 18th 2007 at 6 p.m.
The Savio Theatre

PINUCCIA GERMANA'
MARCO GIOVANETTI
piano duo

«SPAIN & SOUTH AMERICA»


CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Lindaraja

EMMANUEL CHABRIER
Espana

MANUEL INFANTE
Andalusian Dance

MAURICE RAVEL
Spanish Rhapsodies

JUAN JOSÉ CASTRO
Tangos

JAMES WALKER
Rumba

DARIUS MILHAUD
Brazileira

AARON COPLAND
Danzón cubano