{"id":52863,"date":"2025-09-08T16:40:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/events\/concert-by-alessandro-stella-and-marcos-madrigal-piano-duo-music-by-ildebrando-pizzetti-and-italo-montemezzi\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T12:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T12:37:17","slug":"concert-by-alessandro-stella-and-marcos-madrigal-piano-duo-music-by-ildebrando-pizzetti-and-italo-montemezzi","status":"publish","type":"ajde_events","link":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/events\/concert-by-alessandro-stella-and-marcos-madrigal-piano-duo-music-by-ildebrando-pizzetti-and-italo-montemezzi\/","title":{"rendered":"Concert by Alessandro Stella and Marcos Madrigal, piano duo. Music by Ildebrando Pizzetti and Italo Montemezzi."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This recording project features pianists <strong>Marcos Madrigal <\/strong>and <strong>Alessandro Stella<\/strong> in <strong>the world premiere<\/strong> recordings of the complete piano four-hands transcriptions of orchestral works by <strong>Ildebrando Pizzetti<\/strong> and <strong>Italo Montemezzi<\/strong>, realized by <strong>Mario Pilati<\/strong>. Far from being mere reductions, these transcriptions emerge as genuine <strong>re-creations<\/strong>, capturing the orchestral richness and evocative imagination of the original scores, while also highlighting Pilati\u2019s inventiveness and sensitivity. Released on the French label <strong>Artalinna<\/strong>, the album stands as a significant rediscovery of rare and precious pages from the Italian early 20th-century repertoire, enhanced by the pianists\u2019 compelling interpretations and the sonority of the <strong>Bechstein Concert D 282.<\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PROGRAM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tre Preludi Sinfonici per l\u2019Edipo Re di Sofocle<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1968)<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Italo Montemezzi (1875-1938)<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paolo e Virginia<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MARCOS MADRIGAL &amp; ALESSANDRO STELLA<\/strong><br\/><strong>\u201cUn duo sorprendente!\u201d<\/strong><br\/>\u2013 Philippe Cassard (<em>France Musique<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The duo of Marcos Madrigal \u2013 recently named <em>Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres<\/em> \u2013 and Alessandro Stella \u2013 recently invited as a <em>Voting Member of the Recording Academy (Grammy Awards)<\/em> \u2013 made its debut in Lyon on June 2, 2016, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Italian Republic, followed by a performance at the <em>Les Nuits Oxyg\u00e8ne<\/em> festival in Paris. Their first album, released by the French label Artalinna and recorded in Oxford, features piano transcriptions of The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky, Pr\u00e9lude \u00e0 l\u2019apr\u00e8s-midi d\u2019un faune by Claude Debussy and Fontane di Roma by Ottorino Respighi The CD received unanimous international acclaim, including a prestigious five-star review from the French magazine Classica, which wrote:<em> \u201cA creative force seems to sweep across the keys, generating a myriad of events that are scattered throughout the scores, bursting with life.\u201d <\/em>In 2021, the duo was invited by the <em>Accademia Chigiana<\/em> in Siena to celebrate the 700th anniversary of Dante\u2019s death with a two-piano program entirely devoted to Liszt and Dante. Also at the <em>Chigiana<\/em>, on October 30, 2018, Marcos Madrigal and Alessandro Stella performed Ildebrando Pizzetti\u2019s Three Symphonic Preludes from Oedipus Rex in Mario Pilati\u2019s transcription for piano four-hands, giving its first modern performance, as part of a commemorative day marking the 50th anniversary of the composer\u2019s death. The duo is a regular guest at the <em>Habana Cl\u00e1sica<\/em> festival \u2013 of which Marcos Madrigal is Artistic Director \u2013 where, in 2023, they gave the Cuban premiere of Kozeluch\u2019s Concerto for Piano Four-Hands and Orchestra with the Orquesta del Lyceum de La Habana, conducted by its principal conductor Jos\u00e9 Antonio M\u00e9ndez Padr\u00f3n. Since 2021, the duo has collaborated with Daniele Cipriani, creating the productions Soir\u00e9e Russe (dedicated to the celebrated Ballets Russes) and Giulietta, which have toured major Italian theatres and dance seasons, including Teatro Comunale Giuseppe Verdi in Gorizia, Teatro G. B. Pergolesi in Jesi, Teatro del Giglio in Lucca, Teatro Comunale in Modena, Teatro Regio in Parma, and Teatro Romano in Verona. In 2021, the label Extended Place \u2013 founded by Alessandro Stella \u2013 released the EP Happy Birthday Variations. Most recently, Artalinna has released the duo\u2019s new album, featuring the world premiere recording of works by Ildebrando Pizzetti and Italo Montemezzi, transcribed for piano four-hands by Mario Pilati. In 2026, Marcos Madrigal and Alessandro Stella will celebrate the first ten years of a unique collaboration, marked by a musical dialogue that continually renews itself and never ceases to surprise.       <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52861,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"tags":[],"event_type":[268],"event_type_2":[],"class_list":["post-52863","ajde_events","type-ajde_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_location-guarneri-room","event_organizer-cremonafiere-en","event_type-piano-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events\/52863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ajde_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events\/52863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52864,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ajde_events\/52863\/revisions\/52864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52863"},{"taxonomy":"event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type?post=52863"},{"taxonomy":"event_type_2","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cremonamusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_type_2?post=52863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}