{"id":61006,"date":"2017-12-06T12:17:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T11:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2017\/12\/portogallo-recital-di-violino-e-2\/"},"modified":"2017-12-06T12:17:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T11:17:01","slug":"portogallo-recital-di-violino-e-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/retediplomatica\/2017\/12\/portogallo-recital-di-violino-e-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal &#8211;  Violin and piano recital by musical duo Francesca Dego and Francesca Leonardi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Thursday, 14 December 2017,<\/strong>\u00a0the director of the<strong>\u00a0Lisbon Italian Cultural Institute,<\/strong>\u00a0Luisa Violo, and the director of the\u00a0<strong>National Museum of Music in Lisbon<\/strong>, Gra\u00e7a Mendes Pinto, will present a recital by musical duo violinist\u00a0<strong>Francesca Dego<\/strong>\u00a0and pianist\u00a0<strong>Francesca Leonardi.<\/strong>\u00a0The event is promoted by\u00a0<strong>CIDIM<\/strong>\u00a0(the Italian National Music Council), with support by\u00a0<strong>SIAE (Italian Society of Authors and Publishers)<\/strong>\u00a0as part of the\u00a0<strong>\u201cS\u2019illumina\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0project and the\u00a0<strong>Suono Italiano<\/strong>\u00a0project, with support from the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism &#8211; Directorate General of Performances.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Francesca Dego<\/strong>\u00a0is considered to be one of the best contemporary performers in Italy. She has been recording with Deutsche Grammophon since 2012; and her recording debut consisted of 24 Caprices by Paganini, garnering unanimous praise from critics and the public. She recorded sonatas by Beethoven for violin and piano between 2013 and 2015. She has been a regular guest with leading international orchestras, including: the Tokyo Symphony, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Grosses Orchestre Graz, Orchestra Filarmonica of Oviedo, Kyushu Symphony, the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tarstastan State Symphony Orchestra (Russia) and has playerd at\u00a0the Royal Festival Hall in London. She plays with a prestigious Francesco Ruggeri violin (Cremona 1697) and a Guarneri del Ges\u00f9, previously-Ricci (Cremona 1734) courtesy of Florian Leonhard Fine Violins of London.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Francesca Leonardi<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cis an absolutely fantastic pianist; she combines pure, enchanting musical talent with impeccable technique,\u201d said\u00a0 famous violinist Salvatore Accardo; she is the first Italian female pianist to record for the prestigious label Deutsche Grammophon. She toured Japan, China and the United States with the Emperor Concerto by Beethoven, and the Mozart Piano Concerto no. 20 in D minor K 466 in South America, where she performed at the Teatro Col\u00f2n in Buenos Aires, for the Semana musical Llao Llao\u201d in Bariloche, and at the Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro for the opening of the 2014 World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday, 14 December 2017,\u00a0the director of the\u00a0Lisbon Italian Cultural Institute,\u00a0Luisa Violo, and the director of the\u00a0National Museum of Music in Lisbon, Gra\u00e7a Mendes Pinto, will present a recital by musical duo violinist\u00a0Francesca Dego\u00a0and pianist\u00a0Francesca Leonardi.\u00a0The event is promoted by\u00a0CIDIM\u00a0(the Italian National Music Council), with support by\u00a0SIAE (Italian Society of Authors and Publishers)\u00a0as part of [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[32,9],"class_list":["post-61006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retediplomatica","tag-diplomazia-culturale","tag-europa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}