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Massimo Belli - Nuova Orchestra Ferruccio Busoni
Mozart
The 5 Violin Concertos
Massimo Belli - Nuova Orchestra Ferruccio Busoni
Sofianopulo
The album
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem cantata tor soprano, tenor, two choirs and orchestra from Jeremiah, lsaiah, Tobias and Psalms
The cantata was conceived both far concert performance and far inclusion in a television format produced in collaboration with Rai. The project aims to raise once more the aware ness of the pubiie, especially young people, on the issue of Peace and the suffering of areas in conflict, through the consideration of a careful choice of texts. The theme stems from the words of psalm 121, verse 6 of which is also given to the title. The music floods and interprets the content with the farce and mild confidence of a youthful spirit: in this sense, the language softly approaches the structures and tane colours of the song, while developing in form and symphonic breath. The orientai spirit in which the meditation matures, evokes a particular sound setting that envelops the listener and transports him far away, towards the East, if we think about where and why the verses were conceived, but nevertheless in a transcendent dimension , though today universally relevant, where the English linguistic medium extends its comprehension to the international audiences. But the Jerusalem we refer to, which awaits salvation, is not only the Middle Eastern one, or the one represented by all the wars, but the one that grows in each of us, where however the risk of its devastation lies as well. The work traces a meditative and artistic path that, from the contemplation of the destruction of Jerusalem, through the exhortations of the prophets and the devotion of the psalmist, reveals the final redemption and the re-establishment of the primacy of peace and harmony.
Nigun of solitude and neglect tor violin and strings
"Nigun " is a piece loosely based on the music far a documentary film (Rai) about the victims of deportations of the Second World War. Nigun is a free melodie form of the Jewish tradition, which can be performed unaccompanied and, in the case of vocals, even without text. The ethnic character overlaps, and amplifies it, with the distress of a deep loneliness with no comfort. The emotion is all focused on the melody of the solo instrument, which releases its tense and afflicted playing aver the orchestra, which supports it only with a delicate harmonic setting. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem cantata per soprano, tenore, due cori ed orchestr.
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Gabriele Screpis - Massimo Belli - Nuova Orchestra Ferruccio Busoni
Vivaldi
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Massimo Belli - Nuova Orchestra Ferruccio Busoni
Sofianopulo
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Nuova Orchestra Ferruccio Busoni - Massimo Belli
Meneghini
The artist
Massimo Belli
Began studying the violin with his father, then continued with Bruno Polli. Under the tutelage of Renato Zanettovich he graduated cum laude at the “B.Marcello” Conservatory of Venice. He followed specialization courses in Fiesole with the Trio di Trieste and Piero Farulli, and at the Accademia Chigiana di Siena with Henryk Szeryng. He was for two years a student of Salvatore Accardo’s at the Accademia di Alto Perfezionamento “W.Stauffer” in Cremona. The winner of numerous national and international competitions, he made his debut at sixteen at the Teatro Politeama Rossetti of Trieste for the Concert Society; later, as a soloist, he performed in Europe, the ex-Soviet Union, Turkey and South America. He has performed the principal concertos in the violin repertoire, accompanied by such notable orchestras and he was lead violinist in the Italian Youth Orchestra, the Busoni Orchestra, the Haydn Philharmonia, and both lead violinist and conductor of the Virtuosi dell’Ensemble di Venezia. The great Triestine composer Giulio Viozzi dedicated to Massimo Belli a piece for solo violin, “Tema variato”, published by Pizzicato. He has broadcast on radio and television in Italy, the Soviet Union, Germany, Yugoslavia, Brazil, and Austria, and has recorded for Sipario Dischi, for Nuova Era and he currently records for Concerto Classics, Warner Classics, Brilliant Classics and Movimento Classical. He studied conducting with Aldo Belli and Julian Kovatchev, and is the conductor of the New “Ferruccio Busoni” Chamber Orchestra. He teaches violin at the Trieste Conservatory. He has taught at the United World College of the Adriatic, at the summer courses in Solighetto, and was invited to give Masterclasses at the Conservatorio Reale di Murcia (Spain), the Hoochschule of Mannheim and the Academy of Tallin and Belarusian State Academy of Musik di Minsk. He is also a teacher at the International Music Masterclasses of Cividale.He was for five years Vice-Director of the “Giuseppe Tartini” Conservatory of Trieste and was on the Administrative Council of Trieste’s “Giuseppe Verdi” Opera House Foundation.He recently conducted I Cameristi del Maggio Fiorentino and Euro Sinfonietta Wien.
The artist
The “Ferruccio Busoni” Chamber Orchestra
The “Ferruccio Busoni” Chamber Orchestra, a well-known ensemble founded in 1965 by Aldo Belli, is one of the first chamber orchestras to appear in Italy during the post-war period. It is also the oldest in the Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, and in 2008 was recognized by the Region as an “institution of regional importance”. It is made up of established instrumentalists, winners of important international competitions, who can boast extensive concert experience as both soloists and members of chamber groups, passing on the musical culture of the Trio di Trieste and the Quartetto Italiano whose pupils they were. In 2005 and 2010 the orchestra celebrated its 40th and 45th anniversaries with concerts featuring the special appearance of the violinist Salvatore Accardo, the concerts met with great popular and critical acclaim. The concert celebrating its 50th anniversary, held in collaboration with Trieste’s Teatro Verdi, had as its guest the violinist Domenico Nordio, and was highly successful. The “live” recording of it was published by the Amadeus review in December 2015.For the 50th anniversary the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region published a book on the Busoni Orchestra, as part of the Region’s promotion of its image at an international level.The orchestra has caught the attention of public and critics alike by its performances in Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Germany, Switzerland, Tunisia, Russia and Italy, with excellent soloists.On October 30th, 2013 the Busoni Orchestra, as Italy’s representative, gave the opening concert in the International Silver Lyre Festival, organized by the Philharmonic Society of St. Petersburg, enjoying a great success with the audience.Ever ready to promote contemporary music, the orchestra has to its credit the premiere performances of a good number of works – some of which are dedicated to the Busoni Orchestra – by such contemporary composers as Nieder, Sofianopulo, Margola, Conti, Viozzi, Coral, Dott, Visnoviz, Bellini, Glass and the premiere performances in modern time by such composers as Giuseppe Tartini, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Andrea Luchesi e Alessandro Rolla.The Busoni orchestra is the creator and principal performer in the Mattinate Musicali at Trieste’s Museo Revoltella, a celebration of chamber music which has now been active for nineteen years.The ensemble has recorded 20 CD for the record company Velut Luna, Concerto Classics, Brilliant Classics, Warner Classics e Amadeus which have received prestigious recognition.Since 2013 the Busoni orchestra has been involved in a project to rediscover the music of the Veneto composer Andrea Luchesi; so far the Milan record company “Concerto Classics” has published five world premiere CDs dedicated to his music, recorded by the Busoni orchestra. The Busoni orchestra has recorded for Italian Radio and Television (RAI), for SKY Classic and for Canale 5.In March 2018 the review Amadeus published the CD including world premiere recordings of the two Concerti of Giuseppe Tartini with the violinist Laura Marzadori. In May 2019 the record company Brilliant Classics published the CD with music by Ermanno Wolf Ferrari recorded with Fabien Thouand e Valentino Zucchiatti. In January 2020 Movimento Classical first published the complete version of Giulio Meneghini's Concertoni.