Sunday 12 and Monday 13 November will be the last appointment with Musikàmera’s Season 2023. Closing this year’s programme, which has been a great success by recording numerous ‘sold out’ performances, will be a prestigious duo made up of internationally renowned soloists who have been performing together frequently for years: Enrico Dindo from Turin on the cello and Pietro De Maria from Venice, a former pupil of Gino Gorini, on the piano. The programme, which ranges from the very last years of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century, opens with a performance of the Sonata in A minor by Alexander von Zemlinsky, the Austrian composer considered to be the musical heir of Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss, linked to Arnold Schoenberg by a long friendship and a great admirer of his works; it continues with the Sonata in B flat minor op. 8 by Ernő Dohnányi, a large, expansive piece by the Hungarian composer, whose fame is linked to his numerous compositions for piano and chamber music, and concludes with Nikolai Mjaskovsky’s Sonata No. 2 in A minor Op. 81, so beautifully conceived and realised that it has become one of the mainstays of the cello and piano repertoire of the first half of the 20th century. The Sonata, steeped in popular lyricism, is also known thanks to the work’s dedicatee, a young Rostropovich whom Mjaskovsky asked for adjustments in the final stages of writing the score.
