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SYMPHONIC TANGO
ARTURO
TOSCANINI PHILHARMONIC
Conductor:
Alessandro
Nidi -
Vocalist:
Mascia
Foschi
Bandoneon
solist: Massimiliano
Pitocco
Pieces for Orchestra
and Voice by Astor Piazzolla
texts by Jorge Luis Borges and Horacio Ferrer
TORRECHIARA FESTIVAL
2008
“From the tango I’ve
taken the rhythm and passion
I’ve thrown away the
rest”
A. Piazzolla
Astor Piazzolla’s music has entered the collective
imagination thanks to pieces such as Libertango, Oblivion,
Adios Nonino, but few are aware that a large part of his musical
output (more than 1500 tunes) was written for a large orchestra. Piazzolla
first enjoyed popularity in 1967 with his “Operita” Maria de Buenos
Aires, based on a text by Horacio Ferrer, and repeated this later
by writing the music for films such as Marco Bellocchio’s Enrico
IV (from which comes the famous track Oblivion), Francesco
Rosi’s Cadaveri Eccellenti, and Sur by Fernando Solanas.
Another aspect of the Argentinian composer less
well known to the public is his extraordinary output of Tango Cancion
(sung tangoes). His artistic association with the Uruguayan poet Horacio
Ferrer gave rise to a long series of small “tango poems”, works that
were never banal, with few concessions to melody to the benefit of
the words. Pieces in which the music is conceived as a precious frame
in which to enclose the poetry. Piazzolla committed the only “betrayal”
of his association with Ferrer with the great Jorge Luis Borges with
whom he wrote a series of fascinating poems dedicated to the
tango.
The Arturo Toscanini Philharmonic, conducted
by Maestro Alessandro Nidi and with vocalist Mascia
Foschi will present works by Piazzolla for large orchestra of
sound tracks and the Tango Cancion,
in a concert – show which is as original as it is exceptional, opening
with a true rarity, the Suite from the oratorio El Pueblo Joven
(1972), written with Horacio Ferrer. This oratorio, which tells the
story of a people living at a depth of 1001 metres under the bed of
the Rio de la Plata, waiting to emerge to give life to a new generation
of young Latin-Americans, was performed just once by Piazzolla himself
in Germany in 1975.
This is an exceptional occasion on which to hear this great Argentinian
composer’s most well-known works together with rarer ones. A story
about the Tango which lasts as long as a concert.
Arturo
Toscanini
Philharmonic
The Arturo Toscanini Philharmonic represents
the peak of the Arturo Toscanini Foundation’s musical activity, artistry
founded on more than thirty years experience in the Regional Orchestra
of Emilia Romagna.
Formed in 2002, the group’s objective is to represent
the creative spirit and the robust musical tradition of the land which
gave birth to Giuseppe Verdi and Arturo Toscanini, joining that select
group of great Italian symphonic ensembles whose profile and ambitions
are international.
The enthusiastic consensus of audiences and critics
has seen them debut and return to numerous venues throughout the world
under the batons of conductors of the calibre of Zubin Mehta, Yuri
Temirkanov, Kurt Masur, Charles Dutoit, Mstislav Rostropovich, Georges
Prêtre, Eliahu Inbal, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, Jeffrey Tate, Lawrence
Foster, Emmanuel Krivine and above all Lorin Maazel, who was its Musical
Director from 2004 to 2006.
The memory of the concert on 16 January 2008 will
remain unique for those who saw the Philharmonic debut at the Teatro
alla Scala to great public acclaim to close the national celebrations
of the 50th anniversary of the death of Arturo Toscanini.
The numerous soloists with whom the Arturo Toscanini
Philharmonic has collaborated include Maxim Vengerov, Stanislav Bunin,
Misha Maisky, Mariella Devia, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Mike Patton,
Lucio Dalla, Uto Ughi, Salvatore Accardo, Marco Rizzi, Steven Isserlis,
Boris Petrushansky and Juan Diego Flórez.
From 2006 to the present a new group of conductors
have been taking to the podium in rotation with resounding success.
They belong to the younger generation but have already received wholehearted
international acclaim: Kazushi Ono, Vladimir Jurowski, Carlo Rizzi,
Tugan Sokhiev, Juraj Valchua, Tomas Netopil, Yoel Levi, Michele Mariotti,
Dimitri Jurowski and Lawrence Renes.
 Alessandro
Nidi
Studied piano with G. Cardini and E. Fierli; composition with G. Branchi
and conducting with A. Allemandi, M. Gusella, V. Delman. He
graduated from Parma Conservatory in 1980 and in 1984 received a diploma
with merit in conducting from the Pescara Academy of Music. From 1980
to 1995 he conducted all the music at the Teatro Stabile of Parma
and from 1984 also that of the Teatro delle Briciole, also in Parma.
In 1985 he was a finalist in the “Arturo Toscanini”
international competition for young conductors and began to work occasionally
with the Orchestra of Emilia Romagna. In 1987 he conducted the world
premiere of the opera by Franco Battiato Genesis at the Regio
Theatre of Parma and recorded the cd for Fonit Cetra.
In 1996 he founded the “Trio Gardel” with the intention
of tackling the tango repertoire and the legacy of 20th
century music with an original and modern chamber group. In the same
year he began his collaboration with Maddalena Crippa.
In 2000 he was among the founders of the group
“L’Inventare Musicale”, specialising in transcriptions of great music.
He transcribed the Brettl-Lieder with the approval of the Schönberg
family and Belmont Music Publishers. On 24 March 2002 his recitation
with musical accompaniment Femmine fatali with Maddalena Crippa
and directed by Peter Stein was performed for the first time at the
Salzburg Festival.
 Mascia
Foschi
Actor and singer whose career path has brought
her to prominence, Mascia Foschi
is considered a Tango specialist. Having started in 2003 with “Tango
Mujer,” in which she presented classic tangoes of the early 1900s
contrasted with modern works by Astor Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer,
she has remained faithful to the genre. She performs concerts of symphonic
tango and recitals of tango cancion and is the female performer
of the theatrical-musical show “Tenco a Tempo di Tango” written expressly
for her by Carlo Lucarelli, which has been touring Italian theatres
for two years and hosted by prestigious festivals including Borgio
Verezzi and Ravello Festival as well as the Ateneo Theatre in Buenos
Aires. Gifted with an extraordinary stage presence Mascia Foschi sings
equally well in Spanish and Italian with her deep, seductive voice
and phrasing in the manner of a traditional tango.
Translation by Sarah J Hyde -
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