Spain is getting ready to welcome a concert by Italian pianist Giuseppe Andaloro in Madrid, as part of the “Italian Sounds in Madrid” cycle promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute and the Italian National Music Committee. The performance will be held at Abrantes Palace, where the pianist will perform a selection of the masterpieces of the second part of the 16th Century and the beginning of the Baroque period composed in Venice and Naples. The programme includes music by Bernardo Pasquini, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Giovanni da Palestrina, Tarquinio Merula, Giovanni Maria Trabaci and Domenico Scarlatti. The concert will start off with Bernardo Pasquini’s Toccata del Secondo Tono, which follows a unitary form of composition and features a seamless suite of notes on the keyboard in which it is possible to perceive tiny intervals between the score’s three main sections.
“Italian Sounds in Madrid” cycle
Pasquini will be followed by Frescobaldi’s Toccata Seconda del Secondo Libro (1627), in which the intervals are instead quite evident. The programme will continue with Ricercare, one of the first tones written by Giovanni da Palestrina, Aria con Variazioni, named “La Frescobalda”, and Partita sopra l’aria di Follia again by Frescobaldi, Sonata Cromatica by Tarquinio Merula, Consonanze Stravaganti by Trabaci. The concert will finish with sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in D minor K1, Sonata in E major K 380, Sonata in D minor K 9 and Sonata in B-flat major K 551.
Andaloro’s concert is the third in the series, after the successful performances by the Trio Estrio, with violinist Laura Gorna, celloist Cecilia Radic and pianist Laura Manzini, and by the Cicchese-Panzarella duo.
