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Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria - Filippo Arlia - Peppe Servillo
Sergej Sergeevič Prokof'ev
Pierino e il lupo
Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria - Filippo Arlia - Peppe Servillo
Sergej Sergeevič Prokof'ev
Pierino e il lupo
The album
One fine morning Pierino left the house, opened the garden gate, to go and play in the green meadow at the edge of the woods. Perched on the highest branch of a large tree was a friend of Pierino's, a little bird, as soon as he saw il he chirped happily: "Hey friend how's il going ... everything's quiet here'"· A duck, following Pierino, carne out of the courtyard, taking advantage of the open gate. He was very happy and thought: l’ll take a dive in the pond and l’ll swim this way and thai .. Quàk' The bird saw the duck, flew down, perched on the grass next to her, and looked al her curious ly: "What kind of bird are you that you don't know how to fly" he said, and the duck replied: "What kind of bird are you that you don't know how to swim" ... and he dived into the pond.They continued to quarrel for quite a while, the duck swimming and the bird hopping on the grass. Atone point Pierino noticed a strange movement in the tall grass ... it was a cat approaching, insidiously, the piace of the argument. The cat thought: 'Thai bird is arguing so animatedly and doesn't lend attenti onaround, butoo it will be my breakfast.' And he crawled up. "Watch out!" cried Pierino and the little bird flew up the tree. From the pond the duck made itself heard. Il quacked indignantly at the cat. The cat thought: 'l'd better not climb the tree . . mao mao by the time l'm up, the bird will have flown away" Grandpa carne out of the house angrily because Pierino had left the yard without his permission."Pierino this pia ce is very dangerous! What would you do if a wolf carne out of the woods .... eh?" Pierino replied, "Grandpa ... by now l'm big and brave, l'm not afraid of the wolf." But Grandpa look Pierino by the hand, led hirn back into the garden and locked the gate with akey. Grandpa was quite righi. He didn't have tirne to enter the house that a big grey wolf emerged from the forest the cat climbed like lightning up the tree. The duck carne out staggering.terrified She tried to escape with all her rnight from the water but the wolf was faster than her, much !aster ...and approaching it got closer and closer more and more until il reached her grabbed her and swallowed her in one gulp. This is how it was: . the cat was on a branch, crouched and frigh tened. on another branch the bird istant from the cat the wolf, from below, was stili watching them very hungry. Pierino observed the scene from behind the gate, without an ounce of fear, and an idea carne to him…He ran into the house, grabbed a strong rope and climbed the high stone wall. A long branch of the tree reached up lo the courtyard wall that surrounded Pierino's garden . Pierino grabbed the branch and climbed the tree hen said: ' hey little bird ... fly around the wolf's snout but be careful not to let catch you." The bird flew around the wolf's head and almost touched him with its wings. The wolf jumped but could not catch il the wolf, enraged, had a great desire to bile hirn but the little bird was rnuch srnarter and continued to anger him.
The artist
Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria
It was born in 2011 as a resident orchestra of the Festival del Mediterraneo ; it has to its credit an intense concert activity that has seen it as the protagonist in several Italian theaters such as the Teatro Tendastrisce in Rome, the municipal theater of Altamura, the Politeama theater of Catanzaro. It has participated in numerous national festivals including the Festival delle Orchestre di Roma, the Festival "Leoncavallo" in Montalto Uffugo and the Festival Euro Mediterraneo in Altomonte. It is the resident orchestra of the opera season of the “Anfiteatro dei Ruderi di Cirella” since 2017. The orchestra was the protagonist of a tour in China at the Tianjin Opera House and the Harbin Opera House with the production of "Le Nozze di Figaro", "Pagliacci", "Cavalleria Rusticana", "Turandot", "Carmina Burana" and the New Year’s Concert with the voice of José Carreras. It boasts prestigious collaborations with many world-class musicians such as Michel Camilo, Ramin Bahrami, Sergej Krylov, Ilya Grubert, Sergei Nakariakov, Yuri Shiskin. The Principal Conductor is Filippo Arlia, awarded with the Gold Medal in the Aula Magna of the "La Sapienza" University of Rome "for the highly prized technique shown in the conducting of the orchestra and for the distinguished interpretation of the great symphonic repertoire of the '900".
The artist
Filippo Arlia
Born in 1989, Filippo Arlia is a pianist and conductor. He is considered by the international critics one of the most brilliant and versatile Italian musicians of his generation and he is also defined volcanic and unstoppable, brilliant and extraordinarily convincing. He has conducted numerous concerts in Europe , the Middle East and in general in numerous world nations. He has conducted prestigious orchestras such as the Orchestra De Tineret of Cluj, the Cukurova State Symphony Orchestra of Adana, the Philharmonic Orchestra "M. Jora" of Bacau, the Pacific Symphony Orchestra of Vladivostok. Since 2014 he has been Director of the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali "P. I. Tchaikovsky" in Nocera Terinese (CZ), where he holds a chair in principal piano and the chair in conducting.
The artist
Winner in 2000 with Avion Travel at the Sanremo Festival with the song Sentimento, he is a great Italian artist, singer, actor, composer, and screenwriter. A songwriter for songs performed by Fiorella Mannoia and Patty Pravo, he is also a composer of soundtracks, a film and theater actor, and has collaborated with Movivento Classica recording for our label 'Pierino and the Wolf', the musical fairy tale by Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev.