Par CROCKETT DONALD. The original Capriccio was commissioned in 2005 by the University of Southern California as a short piano concerto. Capriccio II is a response to, a re-thinking of, the original Capriccio, now for two pianos instead of piano and orchestra. The overall mood is one of joyous abandon, with fast, rather athletic music surrounding a central chaconne of lyric intensity. Capriccio II was completed in March 2016, with premiere performances by HOCKET in Fall 2016. / Date parution : 2022-02-17/ Répertoire / 2 Pianos

Par LACOTE THOMAS. En créant de nouvelles bifurcations à partir d'évènements du passé, l'uchronie, en histoire, en littérature, et dans d'autres arts narratifs, imagine des futurs non-advenus, mettant ainsi en perspective l'incertitude de notre propre présent. Les formes musicales des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles ont pu elles aussi donner à entendre différents futurs, ou différentes causes, d'une même situation musicale, à brève ou longue échéance. Ces Uchronies cherchent à renouer avec cette capacité qu'à la musique de démultiplier la flèche du temps, de tisser la réminiscence, l'attendu, l'imprévisible et l'inéluctable. Uchronies (I) et Uchronies (II) peuvent être enchaînées comme deux mouvements d'une même oeuvre, ou jouées séparément, ou encore disposées au sein d'un même programme, entrecoupées d'autres oeuvres. Ces deux volets sont pensés comme deux scénarios entrelaçant chacun prequel et sequel, transformations progressives, nouvelles causes et devenirs multiples d'idées musicales très contrastées. Malgré la grande diversité de leurs parcours respectifs, ils aboutissent tous les deux au même point d'arrivée apaisé./ Répertoire / 2 Pianos

Par WALKER ROBERT. Commissioned by David Nettle and Richard Markham with funds partly provided by The Arts Council of Great Britain. First performed on 2 January 1985 at Wigmore Hall, London by David Nettle and Richard Markham. / Date parution : 2022-04-01/ Répertoire / 2 Pianos

Divertimento su temi di Antonio Vivaldi per due pianoforti. Par CALLIGARIS SERGIO. Sergio Calligaris was born in Rosario (1941), Argentina. He is one of the last musicians to incarnate the traditional 19th century figure of pianist, teacher and composer, inaugurated at the beginning of the 19th century by Muzio Clementi and carriedon after that by a sequence of famous names that the history of music has handed down to us. As a pianist, he began to give public performances at the age of 13, making his debut in his home town Rosario. Following this success, he embarked upon an extremely busy career as a soloist, giving numerous recitals in Buenos Aires and other citiesin Argentina. He continued to take advanced lessons with eminent exponents of the most prestigious international piano schools. In 1974 he became an Italian citizen and settled in Rome, teaching piano as principal instrument at the S. Pietro a Majella StateConservatory in Naples, the Luisa DAnnunzio Conservatory in Pescara and the Alfredo Casella Conservatory in Aquila. As a composer, he began - at just 9 years of age - to study in the rigorous school of Paul Hindemith, under the guidance of Father Luis Machado, from whom he inherited a love of counterpoint and a strong taste for harmony. He took a diploma incomposition, counterpoint and fugue at the age of 16 at the Amigos del Arte Society in Rosario, going on in 1964 to do an advanced course in 12-tone counterpoint at the Cleveland Institute of Music. The catalogue of his compositions, which has nowreached Op. 55, encompasses a huge range of instrumental/vocal chamber music and symphonic works: a vast and articulated catalogue, in which Sergio Calligaris’s composition expresses its inspiration through the dramatic development of a dialecticalcontrast between the two natures of the composer’s personality - the elegiac and the dithyrambic - which confront and interact with each other giving rise to artistic outcomes of a deeply moving nature. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Répertoire / 2 Pianos