TOMMASO BENCIOLINI / LEONORA ARMELLINI

Dubai Opera welcomes two internationally-acclaimed Italian maestros on Sunday, 25th June, as flautist Tommaso Benciolini, the winner of the 2017 New York Respighi Prize, and pianist Leonora Armellini, a multiple prize winner at the International Piano Competition ‘F. Chopin’ and recipient of the Galileo 2000 Golden Pentagram award, present a concert entitled From Italy with Love as part of the VIP Classical initiative, organised by SAMIT Event Group. SAMIT organises and produces over 150 events every year, including various leading productions of classical music festivals and ballet performances across the MENA region, and with this new project the company is offering audiences the opportunity to experience a different, more intimate type of concert, including close contact with the artists themselves in a private and exclusive atmosphere.

The evening opens with Antonín Dvořák’s Sonatina, a four-movement work initially released in 1893 for violin and piano, with the duo presenting an arrangement for flute and piano. Next comes Robert Schumann’s Fantasiestücke (‘Fantastic Pieces’), a famous 1849 work initially intended for clarinet and piano but has been arranged for many instruments since its release. A brief intermission will be followed by Francis Poulenc’s Sonata for flute and piano, a three-movement work written in 1957. The night will close with Alfredo Casella’s Sicilienne et Burlesque and Frank Martin’s Ballade.

Programme
ANTONÍN
DVOŘÁK
Sonatine Op. 100
for flute and piano
Allegro risoluto
Larghetto
Scherzo e Trio: Allegro Vivace
Finale: Allegro
ROBERT
SCHUMANN
Fantastic Pieces Op. 73
for flute and piano
Zart und mit Ausdruck
Lebhaft, leicht
Rasch, mit Feuer

FRANCIS
POULENC
Sonata for flute and piano
Allegretto malinconico
Cantilena: assez lent
Presto giocoso
ALFREDO
CASELLA
Sicilienne
et Burlesque
FRANK
MARTIN
Ballade