2015 / 2016

W.A. Mozart
, piano conc. KV 271
Audio:
Conc. f. piano & orchestra KV 271, 3rd mov.

L.v. Beethoven
Concert f. piano & orchestra No.5, op. 63, E flat major


Felix Mendelssohn 
Piano concert no.1 op. 25, G Minor

Piano concert no.2 op. 40  D Minor
Piano concert no.3 E Minor  (ca. 1840-42,
completed cersion by Marcello Bufalini

Audio: piano conc. no.3, 3rd mov. "Allegro  Brillante"
(Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, R.Chailly, cond.)
   

Bohuslav Martinu Concert f. 2 pianos & orchestra
with Pavel Kasper, Klavier    
Thomas Ades "In Seven Days"  concert f. piano & orchestra


Concerts f. Pedal Piano

Charles Gounod   Concert f. Pedal Piano + Orch. (unpublished, 1889)
Ch. Carrara "Magnificat" (2011)


° Solo Recital  w. pedal piano

J. S. Bach          Passacaglia in C minor BWV 582

                          “ für zwei claviere mit pedal”

R.Schumann     Sechs Kanonische Etüden f.d. Pedalflügel, op. 56

                           Vier Skizzen für die Pedalflügel, op. 58
E
.Morricone     Studio per piano-pédalier (2011)

F.Liszt                Evocation à la Chappelle Sixtine, für Pedalflügel
Luca Lombardi  "Mendelssohn at Jewish Museum Berlin"



Other Piano Concertos


° Robert Schumann 
   Concerto a-moll, op. 54

° Frédéric Chopin
   Concerto  No. 1  g-moll, op.11



Solo & duo Recitals

Felix Mendelssohn 
Complete works f. piano solo

Variations Sérieuses op. 54
6 Kinderstücke op. 72

Rondo Capriccioso op. 14        
Fantasia op. 28
 

Complete works f.  4 hand piano

Fantasia in D-Dur MWV T1 

Variationen in Es-Dur op. 83b MWV T2 

Allegro Brillante MWV T4 

Ein Sommernachtstraum (Original Version f. 4 Hände 1844)
with  Alessandra Ammara


W.A. Mozart
The Sonatas
Program proposal:
Sonate  KV 283  * Sonate  KV  333 * Fantasia KV  475 * 
Sonate 
KV  457

Frédéric Chopin
Les Nocturnes
Audio:
Nocturne  C sharp Minor
Video:
Nocturne op.9,3    A sharp Major


Franz Schubert
Sonatas & Impromptus
Program proposalg:
4 Impromptus, op. 90  *   4 Impromptus op.142 Sonatas I:  D 537 A minor   * D 664  A Major  * D 845 A Minor Sonatas II: D59 A-Dur * D 960 B-Dur
Video: Impromptu op.90, 1 


" Testaments in music"

Late works by the great composers

Chopin,  2 Nocturnes op. 62 

Brahms,  4 Klavierstücke op. 119 

Beethoven, Sonate op. 111


"Without Words"
: Mendelssohn, Schubert, Liszt

F. Mendelssohn:  6 Lieder ohne Worte
F. Liszt:                  Liebestraume n. 3, Angiolin dal biondo Crin
Schubert/Liszt:     Ave Maria, Gretchen am Spinnrade
F. Liszt:                  3 Sonetti del Petrarca
Mendelssohn / Liszt:
Auf Flügeln des Gesanges, Reiselied,        
                                    Suleika, Neue Liebe
, Wasserfahrt, Frühlinglied
listen:  Mendelssohn, Lied ohne Worte F major
              Liszt, Sonetto 47 del Petrarca


"Nature as mirror of interiority" : 
R.Schumann:         Waldszenen op. 82
F.Mendelssohn:   Fantaisie “Sonate ecoissaise” op. 28
F.Liszt:                   Au bord du source
                                         
Deux Légendes S 175
                                                 St François d’Assise: La prédication aux oiseaux

                                                 St François de Paule marchant sur les flots

                                Vallée d’Obermann

Listen: Liszt, St. Francois de Paule...
          
Schumann,  Waldszenen, Vogel als Prophet



"Chants at Night"  The Art of Nocturno
The Nocturne was invented by the Irish composer John Field and brought to highest poetic peaks by Chopin.
But many other composers composed Nocturnes. The most interesting ones, different in character and style, form this unusual yet compelling program, perfectly suited for Roberto Prosseda’s unique sensitivity for piano tone colours and cantabile
 

John Field:             Notturno n. 5 H37 (1817)
Fanny Mendelssohn:     Nocturne in G minor (1835)
Frédéric Chopin:        3 Nocturnes op. 9; 2 Nocturnes op. 27
Georges Bizet:         Nocturne op. 2 (1854)
Gabriel Fauré:        Nocturne op. 33 (1882)
Claude Debussy:         Nocturne (1892)
Piotr I. Tschaikovsky:     Nocturne op. 19 n. 4 (1873)
Sergej Rachmaninoff:     Nocturne op. 10 n. 1 (1893)
Alexander Skriabin:        Nocturne for the left hand op. 9 n. 2
Vassili Kalinnikov:        Nocturne  in F sharp minor (1894)




° Nino Rota (1911-1979)
Concerto Soirée   (1962)

Even though he became known mainly for his film scores (Fellini, Visconti, Coppola et al.), the Italian pianists and composer was already as a child considered a Wunderkind in the field of classical music and later on, besides his famous film scores, wrote numerous operas, symphonies and concertos. Prosseda plays his piano concertos in C (1960) and E (1962) as well as the well-known concert-soirée (1973).

° Viktor Ullmann
Piano Concerto op. 25 (1939/ U: 1992, Stuttgart)

Compositions for piano by the Czech composer Viktor Ullmann, who was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944 and who wrote many of his best works, among them his last piano sonatas, in the concentration camp of Theresienstadt.


Repertory chamber music
°  "Leipzig 1840"
Leipzig as one of the most important musical centres in Europe

Mendelssohn, 5 Lieder ohne Worte *
Fantasia “Sonate ecossaise” op. 28
R.Schumann, Kinderszenen  * C. Schumann, 3 Romanzen op.11
Liszt,
Albumblatt  S164 e/2 (f. I. Moscheles) * Albumblatt S241 d * Vallée d’Obermann  * I. Moscheles, Nocturne op. 71
Listen:  Mendelssohn, Lied ohne Worte, D Major
 

° Robert Schumann  "Memories and resonances "
Robert Schumann’s heritage in the 20th Century piano music

Schumann: from Waldszenen op. 82 * 3 Fantasiestücke op. 111 * Arabesque op. 18  * Heinz Holliger, Elis – 3 Nachtstücke
György Ligeti, 5 pieces from Musica Ricercata”  * John Cage, In a Landscape *  Giacinto Scelsi, 3 Incantesimi
 

° Liszt’s influences on 20th Century music
Liszt,  Etude no. 11 “Harmonies du soir” * Nuages Gris * Sonetto del Petrarca no. 47 * Unstern – Sinistre  * San Francesco d’assisi predica agli uccelli  * Debussy, Prelude “Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir” *  Berg, Sonata op. 1* Scriabin, Notturno op. 9 no. 2 for the left hand * Scelsi,   Incantesimo no. 1 * Webern, Variationen op. 27 * Ligeti, 5 pieces from  Musica Ricercata  * Messiaen,  aus “Catalogue des Oiseaux”, Le Merle blue
Listen:  Ligeti, Etude


Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
The Complete "Lieder ohne Worte"
op. 19 - 102  + 7 without opus
listen: Mendelssohn, Lied fis-moll

Franz Schubert
"Die Impromptus"

Robert Schumann
Davidsbündlertänze op.6 * Kinderszenen op.15 * Waldszenen op.82 * Sonate op.22

“Mendelssohn remixed”
Lieder ohne Worte alternated with new compositions based on Mendelssohn’s unpublished fragments.

Mendelssohn:   Lieder ohne Worte op. 19, 38, 53, 62          
Mendelssohn/Campogrande:     Corale & Remix (2006)           
Mendelssohn/Taglietti:               Allegro con fuoco (2006)   
       
Carlo Boccadoro:                      Wiegenlied (2006)               
Alessandro Solbiati:                  Fuga Felix (2006)
listen: Solbiati,  Fuga Felix            


Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy  
"Mendelssohn Discoveries"
Rediscovered, partly still unpublished piano works


Sonata G major  (1841)
unfinished sonata movement, unpublished / completed by G. Taglietti (2006)
WP: 28 September 2007 Philharmonie Berlin
Fugue C sharp minor  (1826)
WP: 15 September 2006 Gewandhaus zu Leipzig
Sonata f. violin & piano (1826?)
unfinished / completed by A. Solbiati 2005
Fantasy C minor/D major (1823) 
GP: 15 September 2006 Gewandhaus zu Leipzig
Capriccio E flat major  (1824)
GP: 15. September 2006 Gewandhaus zu Leipzig
3 unpublished Sonatas (1821) in:
*C minor * F minor   * E minor
Sonatina E major (1821)
Adagio + Presto Agitato B minor
(1833)
GP: 15 September 2006 Gewandhaus zu Leipzig
Fugue E flat major  (1826)
GP: 15 September 2006 Gewandhaus zu Leipzig
Andante D major (1826)
GP: 28 September 2006 Philharmonie Berlin
Sonata E minor (1820)
GP: 28 September 2006 Philharmonie Berlin


° Repertory of other composers:
Bach, Beethoven, Cherubini, Chopin, Clementi, Mozart, Salieri, Schubert:
Sonatas a.o.
Chopin in Mallorca * Chopin Late works  *
Clementi, Dallapiccola, Petrassi:   All piano works
M.G.Williams, Piano works
Works by  contewmporary Italian composers (1985 - 2003)
Pano works by  Italian opera composers (Cimarosa, Salieri, Cherubini, Donizetti, Verdi, Bellini, Rossini)


° Classical & Contemporary Music:

- Bach & Petrassi
Bach,
Partita no.4 BWV 828 * Toccata +  Fugue D minor BWV 565
8 tripartite inventions  * 
Petrassi, Partita * Toccata * 8 Invenzioni
listen: Petrassi, Invenzioni 3

- Chopins Nocturnes & Musik d. 20.Jahrh.
Chopin,
Nocturnes op. 9,1 * op.27,1 * op.27,2 * op.37,1 * op.55,2 *
op.15,1
Schönberg, 6 Little piano pieces op.19
M.G. Williams, Nocturne (1987)
Petrassi, Toccata (1933)
Clementi, Studio sul tocco (1993), Variazioni (1999)
Ligeti,  Etude no.5 "Arc-en-Ciel"
Bartok, 6 Dances in Bulgarian rhythm

- Clementis Descant
- Tradition and Modernity
Clementi,
B.A.C.H. (1970)  * Studio sul tocco (1993) *
Invenzione no.4 (2003) * Vom Himmel hoch (1999) * Loure (1998) *
Variazioni (1999) * Blues (2001)
listen: Clementi, B.A.C.H
Bach, Fantasia C minor  BWV 904 * Prelude + Fugue (well-tempered piano II)
Berg, Sonata op.1
Chopin, Etude op.25, no.7 * Impromptu op.36 * Three Mazurkas op.59 
Ligeti, Arc-en-ciel (1985)
Scarlatti, Sonata K427 G major




Concert & film:


*  Liszt
in Italy 
Programme with the NEW CD

Solo Recital 
from     Années de Pèlerinage, Italie

Sposalizio  * Il Penseroso  *  Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa 
Sonetto 47 del Petrarca “Benedetto sia ‘l giorno”
Sonetto 104 del Petrarca “Pace non trovo”
Sonetto 123 del Petrarca “I’ vidi in terra angelici costumi”

Après une le
cture de Dante
 
Fantasia quasi Sonata
Deux Légendes 
St François d’Assise: La prédication aux oiseaux

St François de Paule marchant sur les flots
Listen:
Fantasie aprés une lecture de Dante

DVD: "Franz Liszt - The Pilgrimage Years" (62')
Script: R. Prosseda / Director: A. Bozzolini
with: Cziffra,
Howard, Kissin, Pappano, Prosseda, Rosen u.a.
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*  Frédéric Chopin
Solo Recital
The Complete Nocturnes
listen: Chopin, Nocturne op.15,2

DVD:  "Fryderyk Chopin" (55')
Script: R. Prosseda / Director: A. Bozzolini
With: Argerich, Ahskenazy, Barenboim, Cortot, McFerrin u.a.
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