PRESS RELEASE (8/18/2016)
Friday, August 19, a Loano, the second event of the series will take place “The Turchini Concerts, organized by the Brotherhood of the Turks' Chapels under the auspices of the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano.
At 9 p.m., in the’Oratory of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, protagonists of the concert will be Antonio Frigé (organ) and Gabriel Cassone (natural trumpet).
The evening's program, which features. a “tribute” to instrumental music of the 17th and 18th centuries, will open with the performance of two Sonatas (known as del Niccolini e of the Vitelli) of Girolamo Fantini and of the Sonata II for solo trumpet and organ by John Bonaventure Viviani. The production of the Sonatas (eight in total) by Fantini and Viviani are the only works expressly conceived for trumpet and organ within the Italian musical landscape of the 17th century.
The concert will continue with pieces by composers Girolamo Frescobaldi (Toccata for elevation e Bergamasque), Gian Paolo Cima Borgo (Canzona XIII e Canzona detta la Novella), the latter taken from Renaissance “canzoni da sonare” (songs to be played), Bernardo Pasquini (Variations in C) and of Andrea Falconiero (Batalla de Barabasso y Satanas).
The evening's program will then offer the opportunity to listen to Italian Baroque pieces with the Concerto in G major by Antonio Vivaldi, of the English baroque with the Suite of Trumpet voluntaries by John Stanley and the German one with the Suite from “Musiche sull'acqua” (Music on Water)” by George Friedrich Haendel.
The trumpeter from Friuli Gabriel Cassone He is an internationally renowned concert performer, appreciated both for his interpretations of music on period instruments (baroque natural trumpet, classical keyed trumpet, romantic cylinder trumpet, and cornet à pistons) and for his performances of contemporary repertoire.
Luciano Berio chose him to perform his pieces with solo trumpet: Sequence X for solo trumpet And, premiering, Kol-Od, conducted by Pierre Boulez with the Ensemble Intercontemporain. He subsequently performed on stage with trombonist C. Lindberg in Berio's opera Chronicle of the Place, commissioned by the Salzburg Festival.
Renowned conductors Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Ton Koopman have called upon him to perform the most virtuosic pieces in the solo repertoire. He has performed as a soloist in the world's leading concert halls: the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Cité de la Musique in Paris, La Scala in Milan, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Carnegie Hall in New York, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, and the Wiener Konzerthaus.
Gabriele Cassone teaches at the Conservatory of Novara and holds annual advanced courses at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, as well as seminars in the United States and throughout Europe.
Antonio Frigè After graduating in Organ and Organ Composition and Harpsichord at the “G. Verdi” Conservatory in Milan, he embarked on an intense concert career that has led him to play for the most prestigious concert societies throughout Europe and the United States.
Particularly passionate about 17th- and 18th-century literature performed on “historical” instruments, he has released around thirty CDs and collaborates with the Vivaldi Institute on critical editions of A. Vivaldi's works.
Since 1982, he has been playing in a duo with Gabriele Cassone and, in 1989, he founded the ensemble “Pian & Forte.” He has recorded for RAI, RTSI, ORF, and Radio Classica (Spain). He currently teaches basso continuo and ensemble music and is the coordinator of the Institute of Early Music at the Claudio Abbado Civic School of Music in Milan. He is also the organist at the Church of St. Francis of Paola and the Basilica of St. Simpliciano in Milan.
