Alchemical serenade for piano and narrator
Homage to Raimondo di Sangro and Mario Buonoconto
By and with: Maria Grazia Ritrovato, Martin Rua
24th March 2018, 8.30pm
Music returns to the Sansevero Chapel on the occasion of the 2018 edition of Piano City Napoli, this time honouring two men linked in different, but converging, ways to the “Pietatella”: in one case because he was its most important artificer in the 18th century; in the other because, three centuries later, he studied its complex symbolism with both love and passion.
Both elevated spirits.
Both initiated.
On the 247th anniversary of the death of Raimondo di Sangro and in memory of artist and expert in esotericism Mario Buonoconto, who died in 2003, pianist Maria Grazia Ritrovato and writer Martin Rua create an encounter between music and words in a concert redolent of the alchemical mysteries that the Prince of Sansevero hid in his family chapel, investigated, along with other things, by the late professor Buonoconto.
Programme
Evocation no. 1 – Theme with variations by M.G. Ritrovato
Fugue No. 2 from the Well-Tempered Harpsichord by J.S. Bach
Lachrymosa from the Requiem Mass by W.A. Mozart
Quinta di luna by M.G. Ritrovato
Adagio var. 9 from Sonata K284 by W.A. Mozart
Reciproco rondò by M.G. Ritrovato
Suggestion Diabolique by S.S. Prokofiev
Un sospiro by F. Liszt
Texts edited by Martin Rua from works by B. Cecaro, M. Buonoconto, M. Rua, and others.
Info
24th March 2018, 8.30pm
Free entrance. Booking required.
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