Ravenna Festival
Notturno
Non solo Chopin
Domenico Nordio violino
Andrea Bacchetti pianoforte
musiche di
Fryderyk Chopin, F. Chopin-N. Milstein, Aaron Copland, G. Tartini-F. Kreisler, F. Mendelssohn-J. Heifetz, Eugène Ysaye, Al’fred Schnittke, Karol Szymanowski
“It was usually towards midnight that he gave himself up with the greatest abandon, when the big butterflies of the salon had left […] then he became a poet, and sang the Ossianic loves of the heroes of his dreams.” Thus Berlioz remembers Chopin’s Parisian society gatherings, his romantic complying with the mystery of night as the revealer of most intimate truths. In his Nocturnes, in the unspeakable suggestion of melody, regret and gentleness, sadness and passion gather: in their seeming simplicity, these brief meditations have conquered generations of young maidens. But Chopin also left an indelible memory for many a composer who would also be inspired by the nocturnal element: Nordio and Bacchetti will follow in this wake, touching on Copland's blues and Schnittke’s ironic desecration.
