Concerts, talks, and concert-lectures
A personal project by Luca Chiantore
Musicological research can prove an unparalleled stimulus for bringing ideas to performance. But I have long been aware that performance can just as easily feed back to musicological thinking. And this is not all. Very often these synergies reveal no clear unidirectional trajectory. I experience this fertile collision with growing interest, in particular because of its potential to reshape our historiographic, stylistic, and professional categories. With this in mind, in November, 2018, I launched this new personal project: concerts, talks, recordings, and other initiatives, some addressed to an academic environment, others to general audiences, the common thread being my yearning to offer alternative ways to perform the classical-music repertoire from a starting point of unconventional musicology-based approaches.
Luca Chiantore
A piano recital of music and words. Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata with added movements, improvised fermatas and interludes, recomposed cadenzas, and original melodic material from the Landsberg 6 manuscript, together with the wonderful four Lieder for solo piano by Fanny Mendelssohn.
2025-2026
Luca’s inVersions of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata and Granados’ Valses Poéticos, the captivating Szymanowska Fantasy in F Major, and seven of the most striking Etudes by the extraordinary Hélène de Montgeroult—one of the great musicological revelations of the 21st century. All performed in a seamless blend of music and words, creating an emotional continuum that transforms this concert into a true adventure.
2025-2026
A striking re-reading of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Chopin’s Nocturne op. 48 no. 2 and Scherzo op. 39, and Wieck’s remarkable Ballade in D Minor, in a moving recital where music and words seamlessly intertwine.
2025-2026
…or four different ways of not playing “what is written in the score”. Piano recital with spoken commentaries.
2018-2020
Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata with added movements, improvised fermatas and interludes, recomposed cadenzas, and original melodic material from the Landsberg 6 manuscript, together with 9 startling etudes by Hélène de Nervo de Montgeroult, the extraordinary woman who embodied better than anyone that turbulent age of revolutions. Piano recital with spoken commentaries.
2020-2022
Lecture at the piano. Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johannes Brahms, and Ludwig van Beethoven.
2018-2020
Lecture with excerpts of works by Hélène de Montgeroult, Fryderyk Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Johannes Brahms, played and commented at the piano.
2019-2021
The thrilling life and unbelievable music of a unique figure in music history. Works by Hélène de Montgeroult.
2021-2023
Concert-lecture. Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Muzio Clementi, and Ludwig van Beethoven.
2019-2020
A radically different performance of Beethoven “Emperor” Concerto: inVersion by Luca Chiantore with variants and thoroughbass according to the first edition; fermatas, cadenza, interludes, and solos (re)composed from autograph sketches; ornamented timpani and added snare drum parts; and two original melologues, partially derived from the incidental music for Egmont.
Private world premiere: Mexico City, December 2, 2021
Public world premiere: Morelia, Mexico, December 4, 2021.
Tzintzuni Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Juan Vázquez.
A 300-page book to be published in 2026
Piano recitals, chamber music concerts, and multi-layered recordings. Works by Johannes Brahms.
2024-2025
