Paola Borganti
- Giulio Giurato
Four-Hands
Piano Duo
photo by Mario
Lega
Paola Borganti
- Giulio Giurato
Four-Hands
Piano Duo
photo by Mario
Lega
Paola Borganti and Giulio Giurato
got their piano degree in 1986 at the Academies of Music in Ferrara and
Bologna.
They had the opportunity to specialize with great musicians such as Jörg
Demus and Sergio Perticaroli in outstanding foundations (Mozarteum in Salzburg,
Accademia Pianistica di Imola) .
They trained as a piano duet with Giovanna Musiani and Bori Bekhterev and
attended specialized classes held by Bruno Canino and Antonio Ballista.
They actually got several prizes both as solist and in many chamber music
ensambles and in 1995 they got the second prize at the V Concorso pianistico
Nazionale "Riviera della Versilia" and the third prize at the VI Concorso
Nazionale "Citta' di Lodi".
This duet also specialized in other kinds of music (they took care of the
artistic management of two famous musicals) and also played jazz, making
several concerts, particulary with the jazz singer Luisa Cottifogli and
transcribed the most known Gershwin songs.
The duet made successful concerts in the main Italian towns , such as the
performance of Rapsody in Blue, about which they played the amazing four
hands version, written by Henry Levine.
Programme examples:
"Fantaisies"
J.
Brahms
"Souvenir
de la Russie"
Six Fantaisies
for piano four-hand
1. Russian
National Anthem 2. The branch. Little song
3. Don't wake
her at dawn. Romance 4. The nightingale
5. There's
a big village on the road. Bohemian folk-song
6. The plait.
Bohemian folk-song
F. Schubert
Fantasy in
F minor op. 103
Allegro
molto moderato/Largo/Allegro vivace/Tempo primo
* * * * *
M. Ravel
Ma Mere l'Oye
Pavane
de la Belle au bois dormant
Petit Poucet
Laideronette,
Impératrice des Pagodes
Les entretiens
de la Belle et de la Bete
Le jardin
féerique
S. Rachmaninov
Six Pieces
op. 11
1. Barcarolle
in G minor. Moderato
2. Scherzo
in D major. Allegro il più possibile
3. Russian
Theme in B minor. Andantino cantabile
4. Valzer
in A major. Tempo di Valse
5. Romance
in C minor. Andante con anima
6. Slava (Gloria)
in C major.
Allegro moderato
"Russia and America"
J.
Brahms
"Souvenir
de la Russie"
Six Fantaisies
for piano four-hand
1. Russian
National Anthem 2. The branch. Little song
3. Don't wake
her at dawn. Romance 4. The nightingale
5. There's
a big village on the road. Bohemian folk-song
6. The plait.
Bohemian folk-song
S. Rachmaninov
Six Pieces
op. 11
1. Barcarolle
in G minor. Moderato
2. Scherzo
in D major. Allegro il più possibile
3. Russian
Theme in B minor. Andantino cantabile
4. Valzer
in A major. Tempo di Valse
5. Romance
in C minor. Andante con anima
6. Slava (Gloria)
in C major.
Allegro moderato
* * * * *
G. Gershwin
I got rhythm
- Impromptu variations
Allegro
con bravura e ben ritmato
Three Preludes
Allegro
ben ritmato e deciso
Andante
con moto e poco rubato
Allegro
ben ritmato e deciso
Rhapsody in
Blue
Molto Moderato
/ Scherzando / Tempo Giusto
Andantino
moderato, con espressione /
Agitato
e misterioso / Grandioso
Dedicated to George Gershwin
Amazing
and inexhaustible pianist, clever composer (self-taught man from experience)
influenced by the kaleidoscope of cultures and races in New York in early
‘900, George Gershwin is without dubt one of the most important musicians
of America and of all musical learned outline of the XXth century.
The sweeping
success who made him a multi-millionaire at not even thirthy years old
didn’t stop him to search a personal style that walks across symphonic
music (the half-jazz little orchestra of Rhapsody in Blue and the big orchestra
of Concert in F and An American in Paris), through the many inspired and
famous Songs (annualy performed in historical musicals) til his masterpiece
Porgy and Bess, the folk-opera that opened a new and unique way of writing
music, soon interrupted by the serious disease that prematurely broke off
his life at only 39.
George
Gershwin is one of the most loved musicians still today, in smoky pubs
and in Concert Halls, one of the very few who approaches both jazz and
classical music lovers. This contamination probably is the fascination
of his art.
George Gershwin
(1898 – 1937)
Three Preludes
Allegro
ben ritmato e deciso
Andante
con moto e poco rubato
Allegro
ben ritmato e deciso
I Got Rhythm
Variations
Allegro
con bravura e ben ritmato
Rhapsody in
Blue
Molto Moderato
/ Scherzando / Tempo Giusto
Andantino
moderato, con espressione /
Agitato
e misterioso / Grandioso
Paola Borganti
- Giulio Giurato
Four Hands
Piano Duo
* * * * *
“Songs”
But not
for me, Lady be good,
Embraceable
you,
They can’t
take that away from me,
Someone
to watch over me,
The man
I love, I got Rhythm,
Summertime.
Luisa
Cottifogli, voice
Giulio Giurato,
piano
Paola Borganti,
piano
“Sergeij
Rachmaninov: Clever and Tradition”
Paola Borganti
- Giulio Giurato
Four Hands
Piano Duo
Listening guide
Pier
Paolo Bellini
"Walzer and from
Orchestra to Piano (and vice versa)"
Music by J.
Brahms, M.E. Bossi, G. Gershwin
Paola Borganti
- Giulio Giurato
Four Hands
Piano Duo
