“I Bricconcello” is a prestigious Italian chamber music project born in 2009 from an idea of the cellist Pierluigi Ruggiero.
The recent member of the project Alessandra Di Gennaro,italian pianist based in Den Haag, has been the pivot to establish a fruitful collaboration with young talented and recognized Dutch artists, the mezzosoprano Vera Fiselier and the violinist Isa Goldschmeding, creating a program consisting of masterpieces taken from the 19th-20th century’s musical tradition of both Italy and The Netherlands.
The name of the project itself lights up on the nature of the project, since it stems from a wordplay: the Italian old-fashion word “Bricconcello”, “naughty, witty boy” (often used in “Le nozze di Figaro”) contains also the phrase “con cello” ,“with cello”.
In fact, the project has seen through the years many Italian and international artists performing together with the cello of Pierluigi the most various instrumental and vocal chamber music repertoire from different cultures coming from all over the world.
Since its birth “ I Bricconcello” has toured many European countries, Brazil, Argentina, South Arabia, Malaysia and China.
This event is possible thanks to Gementee Den Haag, the Italian Institute of Culture of Amsterdam and the Italian Embassy in the Netherlands.
Sunday, September 3 · 8 – 9:30pm
Waalse Kerk, Noordeinde 25, The Hague
PROGRAM
The proposed program emerges from the desire of each of four artists to be ambassador of their own repertoire and at the same time to discover the musical identity of the others, to dive deep into it with curiosity and enthusiasms and to bring the results of this cultural interchange out there with an Italo-Dutch program to be enjoyed by a public as varied as the ensemble is.
• Henriëtte Bosmans (1995-1952): Arietta for violin and piano
• Giovanni Sgambati (1841-1914): “Gondoliera” Op. 29
• Giovanni Sgambati (1841-1914): “Care Luci”
• Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921): “Meinacht”
• Giuseppe Martucci (1856 – 1909): “La Canzone dei ricordi” n.7 op.68
• Giuseppe Martucci (1856 – 1909): Romance Op. 72 n.2
• Alfredo Piatti (1822-1901): Notturno for cello and piano
• Lucio Gregoretti (1961 -): Dialogo Incoerente
INTERMISSION
• Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921): “Berceuse”
• Alfredo Piatti (1822-1901): “Far far away”, “A farewell”, “The lover’s appeal”
• Frédèric Devreese (1929-2020): Valse Sacrée for violin and piano
• Giovanni Avolio (1849-1936): Fantasia dall’opera “La Forza del destino” di G. Verdi
ARTISTS
Pierluigi Ruggiero, cello
Alessandra Di Gennaro, piano
Vera Fiselier, mezzosoprano
Isa Goldschmeding, violin