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05 November 2019It is the concert opening no. 199 the one that marks the opening of the 2019-20 season of the Roman Philharmonic Academy signed by the artistic director Andrea Lucchesini. The appointment is for Thursday 7 November at the Teatro Argentina (at 21), where the Roman institution has scheduled until April thirteen concerts dedicated to the great repertoire of chamber music, going from the Baroque to the present day with various listening paths , entrusted to top-level interpreters.

The star of the inaugural evening will be the acclaimed Argentinian cellist Sol Gabetta, one of the most acclaimed soloists of our time, awarded the "Karajan Award" in 2018 and already a soloist with the most famous orchestras in the world. With his precious cello Matthew Goffriller of 1730, Gabetta will be joined by pianist Nelson Goerner, also Argentine with a passion for chamber music, and a predilection for the less frequented repertoire.

Special features of the program are the performance of some masterpieces by Schubert, Brahms and Franck for violin and piano revisited through the deep cantabile of the cello, with specific arrangements for cello and piano. "It is the first time I bring this program to Italy, unusual for the billboards of the chamber music seasons - explains the Argentine musician -. The repertoire for the cello-piano formation is quite wide, but often in musical life you feel the need to experience something new, driven by curiosity. In my case we must specify that as a child I played the violin, like my brother, so I kept and cultivated a great love also for this instrument ”.

The other concerts at the Teatro Argentina
The programming of the Philharmonic in Argentina will continue with a series of different and stimulating 'paths'. To honor the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, he chose to perform the complete of his String Quartets, a genre that the Bonn musician favored and cultivated throughout his life, a mirror of his creative thinking. Four concerts that will see alternating formations among the most established and interesting on the international scene to compose the entire cycle: the Pavel Haas Quartet (5 December), the Belcea Quartet (6 February), the Jerusalem Quartet (20 February) and the Hagen Quartet (March 26), to which the two concerts in the Sala Casella of the young Lyskamm Quartet, in a three-year residence at the Filarmonica, are added to complete the cycle.

There will also be space for the piano with four recitals that bring to the Argentine Filippo Gamba a cosmopolitan musician and "piano philosopher" (November 14), the magic of Piotr Anderszewski's sound, a precious opportunity to listen to one of the most interesting pianists of today dealing with a refined "contrapuntal" program (28 November). Then it will be the turn of the brilliant virtuosity of Denis Matsuev (27 February) heir of the great Russian piano tradition, and of the very young Filippo Gorini (12 December), just twenty-three and already launched towards a brilliant international career, one of the best talents of the new generation of pianists of our country.

There are also three special projects: one dedicated to the baroque and the musical theater of the time centered on the figure of Julius Caesar, with Raffaele Pe among the most appreciated countertenor of the new generation and the ensemble La Lira di Orfeo (January 23), the second riannoda the threads of Marcel Proust's musical passion, listening to songs from his Recherche together with the music that inspired many pages, in the interpretation of three leading musicians such as Marco Rizzi on violin, Giovanni Gnocchi on cello and Roberto Cominati on piano and voice of an actor (February 13). Finally, the evening In search of Orpheus, around the myth that has always inspired the imagination of artists and writers, musicians and playwrights, between past and present, starring actress Laura Torelli and the ensemble L'Astrée (March 5) .
The conclusion of the concert cycle brings us back to the duo formation on April 2nd, with the famous Danish violinist Nikolaj Znaider and the versatile pianist Robert Kulek, back in Rome after their last appearance seven years ago, engaged in an intense program between Beethoven and the twentieth century.