Sandro Fuga: Sonate per violoncello e pianoforte Umberto Aleandri & Filippo Farinelli

• Sandro Fuga (1906 - 1994): Sonata I (1936):
• 1 Fuga: Sonata I (1936): Calmo, sereno – Molto allegro 10:30
• 2 Fuga: Sonata I (1936): Grave e sostenuto 08:03
• 3 Fuga: Sonata I (1936): Vivace, rapsodico, con spirito 06:19
• Sonata Ii (1973):
• 4 Fuga: Sonata Ii (1973): Calmo 09:59
• 5 Fuga: Sonata Ii (1973): Vago, con semplicità 04:02
• 6 Fuga: Sonata Ii (1973): Allegro vivo 06:16
• Sonata Iii (1989):
• 7 Fuga: Sonata Iii (1989): Molto allegro 04:45
• 8 Fuga: Sonata Iii (1989): Calmo 07:59
• 9 Fuga: Sonata Iii (1989): Scorrevole moderato 04:33
• 10 Fuga: Sonata Iii (1989): Vivo 03:04
• Total Runtime 01:05:30

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Sandro Fuga was born in 1906 in Mogliano Veneto in the province of Treviso, but was Torinese by adoption. He studied piano under the guidance of Luigi Gallino; studied organ with Ulisse Matthey; and studied composition with Luigi Perrachio, Franco Alfano, and Giorgio Federico Ghedini. A cultured, elegant, and lovable artistic figure from a subalpine aristocratic background, Fuga was a refined and sensitive pianist, as well as a teacher of the highest caliber. He was a musician who made his own aesthetic belief and remained unscathed within the barrenness of the sterile shadows of a certain avantgarde, destined to grow old within l'espace d'un matin. Umberto Aleandri and Filippo Farinelli here are introducing us to the work including the three sonatas for cello and piano (two of which are world premiere recordings), clear emblem of the compositional ability of the author, teeming with pleasant and various writing solutions always elaborated with consummate skill and filtered by a great knowledge of the past tradition.

Umberto Aleandri, violoncello
Filippo Farinelli, pianoforte

Umberto Aleandri
He got a Master in Chamber Music at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and gave concerts in many ensembles in Italy and abroad, participating in various festivals: Mantova Chamber Music Festival, Festival dei 2 Mondi in Spoleto, Euroclassical, Umbria Music Fest, Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Filarmonica Umbra.

Founder of Duo Escher, with which he was awarded in several national competitions.

He has played in the role of cello principal in various orchestras, such as International Opera Theater of Philadelphia, Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana and others; he recently collaborated with I Solisti Aquilani, Orchestra Leonore and Orchestra Filarmonica di Milano.

He recorded a portrait CD on music by Sandro Fuga for Tactus.

Filippo Farinelli
is a pianist and a multifaceted musician, mainly specialized in chamber and vocal chamber music repertoire.

His passion for the French repertoire brought him to realize several monographic recording’s projects with Brilliant Classics, including the complete chamber vocal catalogue by Maurice Ravel and André Jolivet alongside the complete music for Saxophone and Piano by Charles Koechlin together with David Brutti. His engagement on the chamber music repertoire of the last century let him confront with the vocal production of Luigi Dallapiccola as well as with the Entartete Musik. Continuously focused on the contemporary repertoire for solo piano he regularly performs music by Italian composers such as Donatoni, Sciarrino and Momi together with the international repertoire for chamber ensemble including works by (Denisov, Messiaen, Williams). His research on rare and facets repertoire for duo recently led to the co-curatorship of the critical edition of Guido Alberto Fano’s Fantasia Sonata for SEDM.

He has been prize-winner in several international competitions such as Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition 2007 in Amsterdam, 18th Caltanissetta International Competition, 21st International Competition in Trapani and he founded several ensembles: the Duo Disecheis (dedicated to the historical and contemporary repertoire for sax and piano), Duo Komma (characterized by the desire to rediscover and reassess manuscript works that are part of Italy’s 19th- and 20th-century instrumental repertoire) and the Quartetto Rêves (specialized in the French repertoire of the IX and XX century from duo to quartet).

He works with renowned musicians such as Melissa Phelps, Elisabeth Perry, Federico Mondelci, Mario Caroli, Ivo Nilsson, Patrick De Ritis, Jonathan Williams, and singers such as Monica Piccinini, Alda Caiello, Sophie Marilley, Mark Milhofer, Christian Immler and Roberto Abbondanza. Filippo regularly plays in Italian seasons (Amici della Musica in Perugia, Modena, Foggia, Catanzaro, Terni…) and in Festival such as Ljubljana Festival, MusicaRivaFestival, “da Bach a Bartòk” in Imola, Festival delle Nazioni in Città di Castello, Automne Musical in Châtellerault, Sagra Musicale Umbra. He has mainly recorded with Brilliant Classics and Tactus.

He got degrees in piano and chamber music as well as in composition and orchestral conducting, he obtained a Postgraduate at the Music University of Wien in vocal chamber music repertoire and he studied with Charles Spencer, Irwin Gage, Dalton Baldwin, Pier Narciso Masi and Dario De Rosa among others. He currently serves as Professor of Vocal Chamber Music in Italian Conservatories and held masterclasses in Europe.

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