Affresco Italiano: Ludovica Rana & Maddalena Giacopuzzi

Cultural depth

The performances sketch an area in space and time with great spiritual, artistic and cultural intensity from 1880 to 1890. This decade is characterized by a spiritual climate that tried to produce its own style and connotation. It was a prosperous period for the Italian cultural world in which chamber music found its place and defined its considerable cultural depth. It is a period marked by a cultural struggle in which Italian musicians have struggled to establish themselves in the world of opera in Italy and, in the field of instrumental music, in Germany.

Busoni, Martucci and Cilea have charted a path that, on the one hand, contains elements inspired by Romanticism and, on the other hand, defines enlightened stylistic innovations for future generations. The concert is the second of a tour organized by the music association Associazione Musicale Opera Prima and included in the Puglia Sounds Export 2023 programming under the motto "actions to promote local culture, creativity and tourism".

Programme

G. Martucci, Sonata in fa diesis minor Op. 52 for cello and piano

B. Busoni, Small Suite Op. 23 for cello and piano

Cilea, Sonata for cello and piano

About the duo

Ludovica Rana Duo was founded in 2018 and has already performed numerous concerts and collaborated with important festivals and concert associations such as Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Società dei Concerti di Milano, Accademia Filarmonica in Verona, Viotti Festival, Teatro Civico Vercelli, Fondazione Walton, Milano Musica, Oratorio del Gonfalone in Roma, Musica Insieme in Bologna, Amici della Musica di Lonigo, Associazione Sfere Sonore in Lecce and Associazione Opera Prima, also in Lecce.

In 2021, the duo won the DV Young Sounds competition of record label Da Vinci Records, resulting in the debut CD entitled "Affresco italiano" being released in the summer of 2022.

Ludovica Rana studied at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana, the Menuhin Academy, the Pavia Cello Academy and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. She currently teaches chamber music at the Nocera Terinese Conservatory; she plays an 1860 Claude Augustine Miremont. Maddalena Giacopuzzi studied at the Conservatory of Bolzano, the Academy "Incontri col Maestro" in Imola and at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. She teaches piano at the Paisiello Conservatory in Taranto.

Tickets

Entrance is free. Due to the limited number of places, please make a reservation.