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

Les deux pianos introduisent le motif bass un après l'autre. Chaque nouvelle entrée apporte une augmentation de tempo. Seulement quand ils jouent ensemble, cependant, est le véritable ' Vivace unleashed. Dès lors, c'est seulement dans les sections ' largamente ' et une section du milieu lyrique (cantabile) que la basse de course figure pauses pendant un certain temps. Le motif tisse son chemin à travers le cours de la ' Toccata ' comme un ' perpetuum mobile ', ce qui porte la superposition de plus en plus complexe à la structure du mouvement. Le compositeur letton Peteris Vasks a lui-même décrit comme ' un musicien de la périphérie ' en raison de ses origines géographiques et culturelles. Sa musique pleine de rigueur émotionnelle continue de lui apporter vers le centre de la composition contemporaine, comme est évident dans ses oeuvres de chambre instrumentale. / 2 Pianos