Martin Owen on the horn, Francesca Dego on the violin, and Alessandro Taverna on the piano present a program including Robert Schumann (Sonata for violin and piano op. 105), György Ligeti (Trio), Olivier Messiaen (Appel interstellaire for solo horn), and Johannes Brahms (Trio op. 40): the main novelty lies in the title of the Musikamera Season, Anni Venti (Twenties), referring to a reflection on a decade that for various reasons in every century of the last seven hundred years has been rich in significant moments for the evolution of music. In the twenties of the fifteenth century, the first motets by Dufay were born; in 1527 Willaert was appointed Maestro di cappella at the Basilica of San Marco in Venice; in the seventeenth century, Monteverdi was active in Venice and published the famous Lamento d’Arianna; and still, the twenties of the eighteenth century are those of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, while important texts on harmony and counterpoint were published; in the nineteenth century, Paganini’s Caprices were born, while the new romantic generation of Mendelssohn, Schumann, Liszt, and Chopin emerged from the last masterpieces of Beethoven and Schubert. And then the twentieth century, with Schoenberg’s dodecaphony, Stravinsky’s Neoclassicism, and Shostakovich’s early works, leading to the twenties of this century, where chamber music continues to be born that deserves to be performed and listened to. The season as a whole aims to address a wide and articulated chronological and stylistic panorama, involving a range of chamber ensembles as comprehensive as possible.
