ITALIAN PASSIONS

To the 20th Anniversary of the Piano Duo

Concert

“ITALIAN PASSIONS”

As part of the world tour

THE CONCERT IS HELD IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

 

 Running time: 1 hour 30 minutes

Please note that the age limit is 10+

Management reserves the right to substitute performers and works performed

 

The renowned Italian piano duo Schiavo-Marchegiani, well known to Kazakhstani audiences, presents the jubilee concert “Italian Passions!”.

Pianists Marco Schiavo and Sergio Marchegiani are highly regarded by audiences and critics alike for their vivid musical individuality, expressive and natural manner of performance, beauty of sound, intensity and powerful energy on stage.

Over the course of their twenty-year artistic career, the musicians have given around 1,000 concerts on the world’s most prestigious stages and at major festivals, including Carnegie Hall in New York, the Golden Hall of the Musikverein and the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Philharmonie (Great Hall) and Konzerthaus in Berlin, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, as well as concert halls throughout the world.

Alongside their active concert activity, the musicians serve as professors of piano at the conservatories of Alessandria and Potenza, and are regularly invited to give masterclasses and to serve on the juries of international piano competitions worldwide (Spain, Serbia, Turkey, the USA, Mexico, Kazakhstan, Japan, Australia, Brazil, South Africa, and others).

The jubilee concert of the Schiavo–Marchegiani Piano Duet is presented with the support of the Humanitarian Foundation “Degdar”.

The evening’s programme features piano duets by outstanding composers of European classical music.

 

PROGRAMME:

G. Rossini (1792–1868)

Overture to the opera L'italiana in Algeri

 

F. Schubert (1797–1828)

Fantasia in F minor for piano four hands, Op. 103, D 940

 

J. Brahms (1833–1897)

Six Hungarian Dances
No. 1 in G minor: Allegro molto
No. 2 in D minor: Allegro non assai
No. 3 in F major: Allegretto
No. 4 in F minor: Poco sostenuto
No. 5 in F-sharp minor: Allegro
No. 6 in D-flat major: Vivace

 

A. Dvořák (1841–1904)

Three Slavonic Dances:

Op. 72 No. 2 in E minor: Allegretto grazioso

Op. 72 No. 5 in B-flat minor: Poco adagio – Vivace

Op. 46 No. 1 in C major: Presto

 

G. Rossini (1792–1868)

Overture to the opera La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie)

 

PERFORMERS: 

Schiavo-Marchegiani Piano Duet

 

Tickets purchased at the Astana Opera are exchangeable and refundable only in cases of cancelled or postponed performances. In all other cases, no refunds and exchanges are possible