Il canto degli alberi Giulia Peri
Gregorio Nardi

The two Florentine artists will present a program entirely dedicated to the delicate relationship between music and nature. In particular, to masterpieces that speak of woods, forests, and trees. Pieces ranging from Mozart to Poulenc will illustrate the most varied aspects of the green universe: the welcoming majesty of German forests in the Lieder of Robert Schumann, Robert Franz, Joseph Marx, and Alban Berg; the solitude of the Norwegian Alps in a mysterious piece by Grieg, and that of the Bohemian forest in the music of Dvorak; the spirituality of midday or the unknown night, brilliantly defined by Max Reger; the wind among the tops of the cedars in a delightful vision by the American MacDowell, and others. You can also listen to folk songs written by Mieczyslaw Karlowicz (dedicated to the maple tree), Harry Carroll (to the pine tree), Karol Szymanowski (to the oak tree), and compositions probably performed for the first time in Italy by late 19th-century Romantics such as Ludwig Meinardus, Anton Rückauf, and a melody by Ernest Bloch that is still unpublished. The literary choices are of the highest quality: Eichendorff, Heine, Lenau, Dehmel, Garcia Lorca, and two short texts by Bertolt Brecht interpreted with exemplary sensitivity by Hans Eisler.

Giulia Peri soprano
Gregorio Nardi piano