(by Carlo Mandelli).
Italian pianist, composer and
director Giovanni Allevi on Wednesday night will open his
Europe-wide 'Equilibrium Tour' at the Theater Dal Verme.
The concert will be divided in two: the first part will be
devoted to the 'Concert for piano and orchestra N. 1', a new
composition in the artist's recently-released 'Equilibrium'
album, performed by pianist Jeffrey Biegel and directed by
Jeffrey Reed.
In the second part, Allevi will execute the other
compositions from the same album with 60 musicians from the
Italian Symphonic Orchestra.
Speaking ahead of the tour's debut, Allevi said he has been
recently "reading what Robert Schumann wrote from the
psychiatric hospital during the last two years of his life",
previously unpublished letters written between 1854 and 1855
from the psychiatric hospital of Endenich to wife Clara,
daughters Marie and Elise and his friends Johannes Brahms and
Joseph Joachim.
"Those words help to get a better understanding of the power
of music, which can truly drive you to the brink of madness.
"Sometimes I don't know whether it is better to find an
equilibrium or remain muddled, perhaps the second hypothesis is
the best one", continued Allevi.
The artist said he likes to see the light in musicians' eyes
when they perform a new composition for the first time.
"Not being able to count on the certainty of something you
have already experienced in the past makes the ground shake
under your feet but also gives you the thrill of talking in the
present tense to a public that can recognize itself in the notes
playing on stage because they haven't been written centuries
ago".
The trailer of a short film called 'Playing Together' will
also be screened before and after the concert on Wednesday
night.
The movie, filmed in 4K resolution with specialized audio,
will focus on the interaction between musicians and Allevi
during the preparation of the piece 'Together', showing
rehearsals and the execution through virtual reality.
"I believe this is the future of concert recordings and if
the contemporary musical world, at all levels, is so square and
fair, I instead try to induce a loss of balance - the idea of
ending up on one side or the other as the pendulum swings", said
Allevi.
"It's distressing from a certain standpoint but it is exactly
there that I see the creative fire".
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