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Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria - Filippo Arlia - Giuseppe Andaloro
Rachmaninov
Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra n. 2 in do minore, Op. 18
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/ Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra n. 2 in do minore, Op. 18
Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria - Filippo Arlia - Giuseppe Andaloro
Rachmaninov
Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra n. 2 in do minore, Op. 18
The album
Rachmaninov's Second Concerto has been part of my musical life since my youth. It is a score that I have played many times, but which I have never stopped exploring inwardly, because it changes with time and experience. During my years of training with Sergio Fiorentino, I learned to respect its depth and the inner silence from which it springs. Rachmaninov wrote that “the sister of music is poetry, and its mother is suffering”, but also that music “comes straight from the heart and speaks only to the heart: it is Love!”. In this tension between pain and light, the concerto continues to renew itself. The performance with the Calabria Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Filippo Arlia, is the result of shared listening, long memory and a truth sought, even before it is interpreted.
Giuseppe Andaloro
Conducting Sergei Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto means traversing one of the most profound emotional landscapes in the symphonic repertoire. It is music born of pain and rebirth, demanding truth, attentiveness and responsibility from the performer. Tackling it with the Calabria Philharmonic Orchestra was an act of artistic and human sharing, built on a common breath and the search for an authentic sound. The presence of a soloist such as Giuseppe Andaloro, a pianist of extraordinary technique and rare musical intelligence, made this journey even more intense, transforming the performance into a continuous dialogue between pianoand orchestra, between virtuosic élan and expressive depth. This recording is the result of an experience that was lived, even before it was interpreted.
Cav. Dott. Filippo Arlia
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.
