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, first designed for a three-year period: concerts, talks, 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
…or four different ways of not playing “what is written in the score”. Piano recital with spoken commentaries.
2018-2019 & 2019-2020
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 & 2021
Lecture at the piano. Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johannes Brahms, and Ludwig van Beethoven.
2018-2019 & 2019-2020
Presentation at the piano of the InVERSIONS project. Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.
2019-2020 & 2020-2021
An informed experimental performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 73. InVersion by Luca Chiantore (2020-2021) with original variants, fermatas and solos recomposed from autograph notes, ornamented timpani part, and extemporaneous rendering of thoroughbass.
World premiere: Morelia, Mexico, August 21, 2021. Tuntzuni Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Juan Vázquez.
Concert-lecture. Works by Fryderyk Chopin.
2021-2022
Concert-lecture. Works by Johannes Brahms.
2021-2022
Concert-lecture. Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Muzio Clementi, and Ludwig van Beethoven.
2019-2020
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