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MUSIC

Week of Friday, May 11 - Thursday, May 17, 2012

Classical l In the Churches l Pop-Rock-Jazz-World
More Music: Mellow Evenings l Raucous Nights

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Classical

Radu Lupu, piano
The Romanian pianist, winner of the 1966 Van Cliburn International Competition and the 1969 Leeds Competition, is especially noted for his extraordinarily insightful interpretations of 19th century German and Austrian music. His recordings, for the Decca label, have been critically acclaimed.
Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Sinopoli
Friday, May 11, 8:30 pm
€40-18 tel 892-982 www.listicket.it
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Franck: Prelude Chorale and  Fugue
Schubert: Improvisations Op. 142
Schubert: Sonata in A minor D845

Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia,
Juraj Valcuha conducting with soloists Kristiane Kaiser soprano,
Iris Vermillion contralto, Nikolai Schukoff tenor, Florian Boesch, bass.
Replacing an ailing George Pretre, the young Slovakian Juraj Valcuha, who is the Chief Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Torino. He was Assistant Music Director of the Orchestre et Opéra National de Montpellier from 2003 to 2005. He has been a guest conductor of the London Philharmonic, the DSO Berlin, the Munich Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC., the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, the New York Philharmonic, and the Boston Symphony. Kristiane Kaiser is a principal singer with the Vienna Volksoper. Iris Vermillion performs leading roles with the Deutsche Staatsoper unter den Linden, the Vienna State Opera, the Semperopera in Dresden and the Teatro alla Scala. The Austrian tenor Nikolai Schukoff performs leading roles with the Opéra du Lyon and the Staatsoper Hamburg, in addition to extensive concert appearances. Florian Boesch performs with the Vienna Volksoper, Opernhaus Zürich, Wuppertal Theater, Staatstheater Stuttgart, and the Bolshoi Theatre, and is noted for his recital work.
Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Santa Cecilia
Saturday, May 12, 6 pm; Monday, May 14, 9 pm; Tuesday, May 15, 7:30 pm
€50-18 tel 892-982 www.listicket.it

Beethoven: Symphony n. 9 "Choral"

Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia conducting
with pianist Shiran Wang
The young Chinese pianist Shiran Wang was awarded the First Prize at the Fourth International Prokofiev Piano Competition in Ukraine, winner of the Seventh Arthur Rubinstein Youth Pianist competition in Poland in 2007 and the Fourth Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition held in Moscow in 2008.
Auditorium della Conciliazione, Via della Conciliazione 4 (Castel Sant'Angelo)
Sunday, May 13, 5:30 pm; Monday, May 14, 8:30 pm
€20-15 tel 800 5000 55 www.greenticket.it
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Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Beethoven:  Piano Concerto n. 5 "Emperor"
Brahms: Symphony n. 4 op. 98

  

Maurizio Zanini, piano 
Conductor and pianist Zanini has given recitals and concerts with orchestra at the Teatro alla Scala Milan, London's Barbican Centre, the Golden Hall of Musikverein in Vienna, Hamburg Musikhalle, Gasteig Monaco of Bavaria, the Kunsthaus in Lucerne and Lincoln Center in New York. He has been a soloist with the London Royal Philharmonic and other orchestras.
Teatro Argentina, Largo Argentina
Thursday, May 17, 9:15 pm
€20 -10  tel 800 5000 55 www.greenticket.it 
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Improvisations by Schumann and Chopin
  




Music at the Oratorio del Gonfalone:
A series of concerts at the magnificent historic frescoed hall.
Homage to Gastone Tosato, the  noted choral conductor and organist.
via del Gonfalone 32/a (near Campo de' Fiori)
Thursday, May 17, 9 pm
€15, reduced €10 www.oratoriogonfalone.com

 

In the Churches

Santissimo Nome di Maria al Foro Traiano
Piazza della Madonna di Loreto (near the Via dei Fori Imperiali)
Coro Nuova Arcadia
Sunday, May 13, 6 pm
Free

Sant' Antonio dei Portoghesi
Via dei Portoghesi 21 (near Piazza Navona)
The church hosts a series of concerts showing off its magnificent historic pipe organ.
Giampaolo di Rosa plays music of Sweelink.
Sunday, May 13m 6:30 pm
Stephen Tharp (USA) plays J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations
Tuesday, May 15, 9 pm
Free

 

Chiesa di Ponte di Sant'Angelo
At the foot of the bridge to Castel Sant'Angelo near Piazza Navona
A series of apperitivi concerts, including a glass of wine.
Marco Marzocchi, piano, plays music of the Romantic period.
Friday, May 11, 7 pm
Lisa Francese piano, Claudio Corsi violin, Kyung mi Lee cello, play trios by Haydn and Chausson.
Saturday, May 12, 7 pm
€15 ticketholders to the Castel Sant'Angelo museum €12

Cappella Paolina al Quirinale
A series of Sunday morning concerts in the magnificent chapel of the Quirinale Palace. Get there eary to tour the palace and be prepared to go through security. Doors close at 11:50 am.
Dèdalo Ensemble, music of Shostakovich, Togni, Ravel, Stravinsky
Sunday,May 6, noon
€5 includes tour of the palace. Over 65 and under 18 years of age, free.

Saint Paul's within-the-Walls
Via Nazionale 16 at Via Napoli (near Piazza della Repubblica)
Nova Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, and the Coro Comunità Evangelica Luterana conducted by Flavio Emilio Scogna perform Mozart's Requiem K.626 for soloists, chorus and orchestra.
Sunday, May 6, 6:30 pm
€20-15


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Popular Music, Rock, World, Jazz

Gabriele Coen, sax and clarinet
With Pietro Lussu  piano, Marco Loddo  bass, Luca Caponi  drums,
Lutte Berg  guitar
Coen presents his interpretations of klezmer music and yiddish songs in a jazz style influenced by big band, swing and Dixieland.
Auditorium Parco della Musica, Teatro Studio
Friday, May 11, 9 pm
€15 tel 892 982 www.listicket.it
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Piero Marras
The veteran singer-songwriter composes songs of his native Sardinian language.
Auditorium Parco della Musica, Teatro Studio
Saturday, May 12, 9 pm
€15 tel 892 982 www.listicket.it
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Roberto Vecchioni: I colori del buio tour
Presenting his latest album, and hits from his long career.
Teatro Sistina, Via Sistina 129  (near the Spanish Steps, Piazza Barberini)
Saturday, May 12, 9 pm
€50-25 www.greenticket.it
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Biaggio Antonacci 
Antonacci, a huge star in Italy, gained recognition in 1992 with the album Liberatemi. His last four albums have all gone platinum, most recently, Inaspettata, released in 2010.
Palalottomatica, Piazzale dello Sport (Eur)
Saturday, May 12, 9 pm
€69-€34,50 www.greenticket.it
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Giovanni Guidi Quintet: We Don't Live Here Anymore
The jazz group presents their latest album, recorded in New York in 2010.
Auditorium Parco della Musica, Teatro Studio
Monday, May 14, 9 pm
€15 tel 892 982 www.listicket.it
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Notte Mediterranea with Stefano Saletti e la Piccola Banda Ikona
Featuring Ambrogio Sparagna and violinist Jamail Quassini
Sounds of the Mediterranean from the Balkans to southern Italy.
Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Petrassi
Tuesday, May 15, 9 pm
€12 tel 892 982 www.listicket.it
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Renzo Arbore e l'Orchestra Italiana
Arbore, who is much-loved by Italians of a certain age, had a long career in television with such groundbreaking shows as "Indietro Tutto". More recently, he has been intent on promoting the heritage of Neapolitan popular music, as a clarinetist and bandleader.
Teatro Sistina, Via Sistina 128
(between the Spanish Steps and Piazza Barberini)
Wednesday-Sunday, May 16-20
€69 - €40,25 www.greenticket.it
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Casa del Jazz
The Villa Osio and its surrounding 2,500 square-meter park are the site of this center for jazz, which opened in Rome last year. There are practice rooms and a recording studio open to young musicians and professionals, a multi-media library and a book and record store. The auditorium hosts top names in international jazz. The restaurant, decorated in a black and white piano key theme, its walls lined with vintage portraits of jazz greats, serves an excellent supper and a Sunday buffet brunch. Come for dinner or stay after the concert for a drink at the bar. In the summer, the concerts move out of doors to the lawns of the park surrounding the villa.
Viale di Porta Ardeatina, 55 (near the Baths of Caracalla)
Tickets tel 199 109 783, information 06 704 731, restaurant 06 700 8370 www.casajazz.it

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