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Being brothers as well as colleagues, Francesco and Stefano Parrino have always collaborated on musical projects. Soloists with international careers, they are also founding members of the Trio Albatros Ensemble and the Quartetto DuePiùDue – two of the most interesting ensembles in the Italian and international chamber scene – and boast collaborations with some of the most significant modern and contemporary composers. Both have obtained several degrees in prestigious European musical and university institutions and have performed in important theatres and concert halls in Austria, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Estonia, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Peru, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom, receiving enthusiastic praise from the public and the critics alike.
Their repertoires span from eighteenth century to contemporary music, with special attention to the nineteenth century repertoire and the discovery of unjustly neglected works and composers. They are currently teaching staff at the Conservatories “Niccolò Paganini” of Genoa and “Arcangelo Corelli” in Messina.
Francesco and Stefano have collaborated as soloists with several orchestras: the ensembles of Aarad and Kosice, the Turin Philharmonic, the Orchestra of the Catanzaro Province, the Sicilian Symphony Orchestra, the “Armonici” Chamber Orchestra, the “Bartolomeo Bruni” Chamber Orchestra, the “Stesichoros” Chamber Orchestra, the San Remo Symphony, the Academic Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Symphonia of the London Royal Academy of Music, the Suisse-Italian Radio Orchestra, the “Arturo Toscanini” Symphony.
They have made numerous world première recordings for the Stradivarius label as soloists (Friedrich Kuhlau, Saverio Mercadante, Henri Vieuxtemps), soloists with orchestra (Giorgio Federico Ghedini and Gian Francesco Malipiero), in duo with piano (Louis Spohr) and in trio (Bohuslav Martinu and Nino Rota).
This concert is part of Bellissima Italia.
PROGRAMME
THE MUSIC BATTLE
This programme presents works for flute and violin written in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century. As the titles of Lourié’s and Donatoni’s modernist compositions suggest (“The flute through the violin” and “Edge”), in sharing the same register, the two soprano instruments act as musical alter egos. Facing each other, they are engaged in a dialectics of identity, a competitive-collaborative relationship that also characterizes the classical and romantic pieces by Mozart, Campagnoli and Rolla as well as the contemporary works of Barbarossa, Berio and Gasparin.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Repertoires from The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute
Bartolomeo Campagnoli (1751-1827)
Duo in E major, op. 2
Allegro
Rondò: Allegro
Paolo Gasparin (1978-)
Variations on a Rota work (written for Parrino duo)
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Luciano Berio (1925 – 2003)
Six duets (Bèla; Camilla; Peppino; Marcello; Daniela; Piero)
Antonella Barbarossa (1955)
Amor Servi (written for Parrino duo)
Arthur Lourié (1892-1966)
La Flûte à travers le Violon
Allegretto
Adagio
Presto
Franco Donatoni (1927-2000)
Ciglio II