The Chamber Music Concerts are dedicated to two of the main French composers of the 20th century: Maurice Ravel and Olivier Messiaen. The program includes Ravel´s entire Chamber Music and Piano Compositions, and Messiaen´s Quatuor pour la fin du temps, the Catalogue des oiseaux, and the voice and piano cycle Harawi, compositions that all together offer an idea of the personality of one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. And a way to celebrate, additionally, Messiaen´s bicentenary.

Musicians and singers are of the utmost prestige: pianists Andrea Lucchesini, Jeffrey Swann, Alexander Tharaud and Massimiliano Damerini, violinists Marco Rizzi and Gabriele Pierannunzi, cello player Mario Brunello, soprano singer Alda Caiello, the Savinio Quartet, and clarinettist Gabriele Mirabassi.
The Teatro Lirico Sperimentale of Spoleto will be presenting a few of its youngest talents to the festival´s audience, thanks to a collaboration that over the years will be reinforced.

tuesday, july 1
Andrea Lucchesini, piano
Marco Rizzi, violin
Mario Brunello, cello
Gabriele Mirabassi, clarinet

and the participation of actor
Giuseppe Cederna, reading a text by Sandro Cappelletto

 

Olivier Messiaen, Quatuor pour la fin du temps, for violin, clarinet, cello and piano (1941)

wednesday, july 2
Andrea Lucchesini, piano
Marco Rizzi, violin
Mario Brunello, cello
Maurice Ravel, Sonata for violin and piano (1923-1927)
Sonata for violin and cello (1919-1921)Trio for violin, cello and piano in A-flat major (1914)

thursday, july 3
Jeffrey Swann, piano
Olivier Messiaen, Catalogue des Oiseaux (1956/1958) – Le Chocard des alpes, Le Loriot, Le Courlis cendre, Le Merle bleu

saturday, july 5
Alexandre Tharaud, piano
entire piano repertoire by Maurice Ravel
(Part I) - A la manière de Chabrier (1913), Menuet antique (1895), Sérénade Grotesque (1893), La Parade (1896 – inedito), Valses nobles et sentimentales (1911), Pavane pour une Infante défunte (1899), Gaspard de la nuit.
3 Poèmes pour piano d’après Aloysius Bertrand (1908) – Ondine - Le Gibet - Scarbo

sunday, july 6
Alexandre Tharaud, piano
entire piano repertoire by Maurice Ravel
(Part II) - A la manière de Borodine, Prélude, Menuet en ut dièse (1904 – unedited), Menuet sur le nom de Haydn  (1909), Jeux d’eau (1901), Miroirs (1905) – Noctuelles - Oiseaux tristes - Une barque sur l’océan - Alborada del grazioso - La vallée des clochesSonatine (1903-1905) – Modéré (doux et expressif) - Mouvement de menuet – Animé, Le Tombeau de Couperin, suite pour le piano (1914-1917) – Prélude – Fugue – Forlane – Rigaudon – Menuet - Toccata

thursday, july 10
young talents from Teatro Lirico Sperimentale "A. Belli" in concert