Rota: Chamber Works Alessio Bidoli, Bruno Canino, Massimo Mercelli, Nicoletta Sanzin

• Nino Rota (1911 - 1979): Sonata for Violin and Piano:
• 1 Sonata for Violin and Piano: I. Allegretto cantabile con moto 07:33
• 2 Sonata for Violin and Piano: II. Largo sostenuto 03:31
• 3 Sonata for Violin and Piano: III. Allegro assai moderato 05:08
• Improvviso:
• 4 Improvviso in D Minor for Violin and Piano 04:15
• 5 Improvviso for Violin and Piano "Un diavolo sentimentale" 05:46
• The Legend of The Glass Mountain:
• 6 The Legend of The Glass Mountain (arr. for Violin and Piano) 04:53
• Sonata for Flute and Harp:
• 7 Sonata for Flute and Harp: I. Allegro moderato 03:58
• 8 Sonata for Flute and Harp: II. Andante sostenuto 04:29
• 9 Sonata for Flute and Harp: III. Allegro festoso 03:40
• Trio for Flute, Violin and Piano:
• 10 Trio for Flute, Violin and Piano: I. Allegro ma non troppo 04:47
• 11 Trio for Flute, Violin and Piano: II. Andante sostenuto 05:36
• 12 Trio for Flute, Violin and Piano: III. Allegro vivace con spirito 03:45
• Total Runtime 57:21

Info for Rota: Chamber Works

Nino Rota is famous for his unforgettable film music but he also devoted himself a lot to chamber music which, in the exchange of his production, is of great importance. This album features some of the most significant pieces, many of which are authentic rarities, which show the great mastery of writing inherited from his famous masters, Ildebrando Pizzetti and Alfredo Casella.

Alessio Bidoli, violin
Bruno Canino, piano
Massimo Mercelli, flute
Nicoletta Sanzin, harp

Alessio Bidoli
(Milan 1986) began his violin studies at the age of seven.

In 2006, he graduated with honours from the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan under the guidance of Gigino Maestri. Then he perfected himself at the Haute Ecole de Musique au Conservatoire de Lausanne at the Mozarteum (Salzburg) under Pierre Amoyal, at the Accademia Chigiana (Siena) under Salvatore Accardo; and at the Imola International Academy under Pavel Berman and Oleksandr Semchuk.

In 2003, at the age of 17, he played as soloist for the first time at the Signorelli Theatre in Cortona. In 2005, he was among the prize-winners at the Rassegna Nazionale d’Archi in Vittorio Veneto. During the concert season in 2007 he played with the Camerata de Lausanne led by Pierre Amoyal. With this ensemble he performed in several European cities, for examples in Martigny at the Fondation Pierre Gianadda, in Milan at the Società dei Concerti, and in Marseilles at the Festival de Musique Saint-Victor.p>

As soloist he has performed in acclaimed concert seasons, including: MITO SettembreMusica, Società del Quartetto and Società dei Concerti Milan (Sala Verdi), Furcht-Bocconi, Amici del Loggione del Teatro alla Scala; Fondazione Musica Insieme, Bologna; Amici della Musica, Sondalo; Il Violinista sul Tetto, Auditorium Arvedi, Cremona; and Festival della Cultura, Bergamo in collaboration with Sony Classical Italia.

He featured with Vittorio Sgarbi in the theatre project Il Fin la Maraviglia, an account of the Baroque age via images and sounds, which was performed at the Chiasso Theatre (Switzerland) in 2015.

He has recorded a CD with the pianist Stefania Mormone for classical music magazine Amadeus and four CD albums as a duo with Bruno Canino.

Two of these latter have been published by Sony Classical - Verdi Fantasias, a CD with paraphrases by Camillo Sivori and Antonio Bazzini (recently reissued by Concerto Classics), and Italian Soul-Anima Italiana, a collection of works by Malipiero Petrassi and Alfredo Casella, most of which previously unrecorded. The other two have been released by Warner Classics – a CD album with music by Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Ravel, Poulenc and, in October 2018, Saint-Saëns complete violin and piano works, including a first recording of his youthful E flat major sonata (R103).

He has appeared as guest artist in radio broadcasts on Radio France, NDR Kultur, Radio Svizzera Italiana, RAI Radio 3, Radio Vaticana, Radio Classica, and Radio Popolare.

From 2016 to 2018, he taught violin at the Conservatorio Niccolò Piccinni, Bari and Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali G. Donizetti, Bergamo.

Alessio Bidoli plays one of the violins made by his grandfather, Dante Regazzoni, who was one of Lombardy most famous violinmakers of the 20th century. Dante Regazzoni’s workshop is now part of the Museum of Musical Instruments (MUSA) of Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Parco della Musica Auditorium, Rome. Alessio also plays a violin made by Stefano Scarampella in 1902.

Bruno Canino
Born in Naples, Bruno Canino studied piano and composition at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, where he taught solo piano for 24 years. He has performed both as a soloist and a chamber musician in all the great concert venues of Europe, US, Australia, Japan and China. For over forty years he has been regularly performing with Antonio Ballista, his piano Duo partner, and since thirty he is a member of the Trio of Milan. Bruno Canino regularly performs with such eminent musicians as Salvatore Accardo, Lynn Harrell, Viktoria Mullova, Itzhak Perlman, and Uto Ughi, among others.

For many years he has been Artistic Adviser of the Giovine Orchestra Genovese and, later, of the International Music Campus in Latina for the autumn season. At the moment Bruno Canino is the Director of the Venice Biennale Music Department.

Bruno Canino is deeply interested in contemporary music and has collaborated with such distinguished composers as Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, Karl-Heinz Stockhausen, Georg Ligeti, Bruno Maderna, Luigi Nono, Sylvano Bussotti and others, the works of whom he has often premiered.

Bruno Canino''s recent recordings include the Goldberg Variations, the complete piano works by Casella, and lately it has been released the first CD of the complete Debussy piano works.

He holds a master-class of piano and chamber music of the XX century at the Bern Conservatory.

In 1997 Passigli Editions published his book "Vademecum for a chamber pianist".

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