For the thirteenth appointment, on Friday 22nd February 2008 at 8.30pm (turn A): a unique, unmissable evening of refined chamber music with the duo, the famous celloist Mischa Maisky and her young daughter , the pianist Lily Maisky, for the first time at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari.

The musical programme includes: Seven Variations in E-flat major on the theme “Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen”, from Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by Ludwig van Beethoven; Sonata in A minor for cello and piano D. 821 “Arpeggione” by Franz Schubert; Vocalise for cello and piano op. 34 n. 14 and Morceaux de fantaisie for cello and piano op. 3: n. 1 Élégie by Sergej Rachmaninov; Sonata in A major for cello and piano M.8 by César Franck.

Ludwig van Beethoven (Bonn, 1770 – Vienna, 1827) composed the Seven Variations from the Magic Flute by Mozart in 1801 and still today, it is one of the German composer’s most rarely performed and least listened-to pieces. The first part of the concert concludes with the Sonata in A minor, composed in 1824 by Franz Schubert (Lichtenthal, Vienna, 1797 – Vienna, 1828) for just one instrument, the arpeggione, which was quite particular and new. The Sonata was named after this instrument. The arpeggione was designed and built in 1823 by a Viennese lute maker, Johann Georg Staufer, who created a blend of the sweet cantability of the guitar and the melancholic expressiveness of the cello. The transcription for the cello was carried out in Cagliari, published in 1871, and was regularly performed after the 1830s, when the arpeggione was no longer used.

The second part of the evening begins with two pieces by Sergej Rachmaninov (Oneg, Novgorod, 1873 – Beverly Hills, California, 1943): the Vocalise and Élégie dai Morceaux de fantaisie, composed in 1892 and that Mischa Maisky has recently recorded on CD for Deutsche Grammophon. The concert closes with the Sonata in A major by César Franck (Liegi, 1822 – Paris, 1890). Set to music in 1886, it is one of the most performed and well-known by the French composer.

The 2007-2008 Concert Season is subsidized by the Fondazione Banco di Sardegn and is accomplished in collaboration with the Azienda e Vigneto Feudi della Medusa.


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