Trio Diaghilev features three world class musicians, pianists Mario Totaro and Daniela Ferrati and percussionist Ivan Gambini, performing a unique repertoire of 20th Century music for two pianos and percussion.
Their recently released CD on the Er [+]Trio Diaghilev features three world class musicians, pianists Mario Totaro and Daniela Ferrati and percussionist Ivan Gambini, performing a unique repertoire of 20th Century music for two pianos and percussion.
Their recently released CD on the Eroica Classical Recordings label presents three ballets by Igor Stravinsky and Bela Bartok, in a new version for two pianos and percussion instruments.
The pianistic parts are based on the original transcriptions by the composers, and the percussionist part is based on the orchestral scores.Thanks to their extensive performance experience and educational backgrounds, Mario Totaro and Daniela Ferrati can easily reproduce a complex orchestral score.
Percussionist Ivan Gambini uses his instrumental expertise to expand the range of tone, and supply the solid rhythmical foundation necessary to convey the musical intentions of the composers.
About This CD
The two great ballets Petrushka and Rite of Spring arose from the close artistic relationship between Diaghilev and Igor Stravinskij. After the clamorous success of the Firebird (the first ballet commissioned to Stravinskij by the Russian manager.)he agave us Petrushka, a great painting of bright colours, almost blinding, which makes large use of unusual types of sonority and above all completely different from the previous work. The scene begins with a glowing and mudding carnival party (this is a pretext for mentioning numerous popular Russian songs and some "street-songs") which serves only as a frame of the true drama: Petruska and his tragic and not returned love for the Ballerina. It doesn't matter that he is only a puppet; Petruska, indeed, has a soul and his double nature (as a human being and as a marionette) is the key for the understanding of all the expressive climate, based on a dualism between incompatible realities. This dualism procreates dialectics, but also antagonism, conflicts and finally death (Petruska will die, killed by the moor, the lover of the Ballerina). For telling this unhappy and "sentimental" story, the genius of Stravinskij made use of the most imaginable antiromantic music. The types of sound are dry, cutting, often dissonant. The phrasing is grotesque and caricatural. The expressive result is harrowing and comical at the sa
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