Radici

Ex Novo Ensemble
Stefano Maiorana tiorba
Marco Rogliano violin

Ferruccio Busoni had three intense and long-lasting ‘loves’: the music of Bach in his formative years and youth, that of Liszt in his mature years; the new face of Busoni’s later style, on the other hand, arose from a genuine devotion to Mozart.
This concert presents at least two of these figures: Bach with the came-ristic version of the Fantasia cromatica e Fuga BWV 903, Mozart with the Divertimento Opus 52 for flute and small orchestra, which is part – along with the Romanza and Scherzoso for piano and the Concertino Opus 48 for clarinet – of a trilogy of concertante works that honour Mozart’s clarity and conciseness. Busoni’s Lisztian soul is represented here by Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco’s Figaro, where the composer amuses himself by blurring Rossini’s material with histrionic gesture and biting irony