Guest Recital
Voces Intimae
Thursday
March 25, 2010, 8:00 pm
Fairchild Chapel
Concert No. 252
Riccardo Cecchetti, piano
Luigi De Filippi, violin
Sandra Meo, ‘cello
Piano Trio in F Major, Op. 22
Allegro moderato
Andante
Rondo all Turca
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
(1778–1837)
Piano Trio in G Major, KV 564
Allegro
Andante
Allegretto
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756–1791)
Trio in G, Hob. XV:25
Franz Josef Haydn
(1732–1809)
Intermission
Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 1 No. 3
Allegro con brio
Andante cantabile con variazioni
Menuetto-Quasi allegro
Finale: Prestissimo
Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770–1827)
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Biography
Riccardo Cecchetti, pianist and forte-pianist, is the founding member of various chamber
music groups including the Trio Voces Intimae, which has played all over the world.
After receiving his degree, cum laude, at the Florence Conservatory, he began an
intense concert career where he performed regularly in the most important concert halls in
the world: Carnegie Hall in New York, Wigmore Hall and St. John’s Smith Square in
London, Musik Halle in Hamburg, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, The Curtis Institute of
Philadelphia, Filarmonica in St. Petersburg, etc. and prestigious Festivals and Associations,
such as the Festival dei due Mondi – Spoleto, Italy, the Festival in Granada, Spain, the
Festival in Melbourne, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Amici della Musica in
Perugia, Amici della Musica in Florence, Unione Musicale of Turin, Istituzione
Universitaria dei Concerti in Rome, etc.
He has also recorded with major European radio stations such as RAI, BBC, Radio
France, Radio Clásica – Spain, etc.
As a member of Voces Intimae, he has an exclusive recording contract with Warner
Classics. The results of this collaboration are two CD’s dedicated to the seven trios of J.N.
Hummel. For the Italian recording company Symphonia, he recorded four CD’s of the trios
of Mendelssohn-Barholdy, the trios of F. Schubert and a collection of unpublished Fantasie
from the 19th century for trio, dedicated to Bellini and the quartets for piano and string
instruments by J. Brahms. All of these recordings were performed with period instruments.
He has also recorded for the Spanish label Verso, a duo with oboist Eduardo Martinez.
He also teaches chamber music and forte-piano at the School of Music in Fiesole,
Florence and holds specialist courses in Italy and Spain.
Luigi de Filippi studied violin, piano and composition in Rome, showing an early interest
in jazz and contemporary music. He subsequently appeared as concertmaster in such
orchestras as the Rome Opera House, La Fenice Theatre in Venice, the London Mozart
Players, the Flanders Orchestra in Antwerp. In London he made his debut as conductor
with the London Mozart Players, and he appeared as soloist–conductor at the Queen
Elizabeth Hall, the Royal Festival Hall and the Barbican Centre in London, the
Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Palau de la Musica in Barcelona.
De Filippi has taken part in the first ever recording of music of the philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche, for the label Edipan; he has revived The Cady, a 1778 opera by
Thomas Linley, a friend of Mozart, conducting the London Mozart Players; with his own
group, the Da Ponte Ensemble on period instruments, he has conducted and recorded for
the label Bongiovanni, a baroque opera of 1629: Giacinto Cornachioli’s La Diana
Schernita. For the Italian label Warner – Fonit he has recorded a selection of orchestral
music of Francesco Saverio Mercadante, conducting the Philharmonia Mediterranea. Luigi
has also appeared in television and radio broadcasts, appearing in six programmes on
contemporary music for the Italian Television, and on BBC Radio 3 and RAI Radio 3, with
live performances and interviews.
Luigi has a keen interest in chamber music with period instruments: he is the violinist
of the Voces Intimae piano trio, now much in demand for concert appearances and
recordings. They have made three CDs with the Italian label Symphonia, all on period
instruments, with the trios of Franz Schubert and Felix Mendelssohn Bartoldy, and a
selection of 19th century Fantasias based on the operas of Vincenzo Bellini. Voces Intimae
has now signed a contract with the prestigious label Warner Classics, the recent first
release being the seven trios of Johann Nepomuk Hummel on two CDs. Luigi has
collaborated with the Rome Opera House as music director for new ballet productions
interpreted by Carla Fracci.
Sandro Meo, cello, has been the winner of many chamber music competitions both
nationally and internationally. He has also held concerts all over the world at renown music
festivals and associations, such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Wigmore Hall in London,
Musikhalle in Hamburg, Curtis Institute of Philadelphia, the Festival dei Due Mondi in
Spoleto, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Amici della Musica of Florence, etc.
He has recorded for the RAI in Italy, for Radio Clasica in Spain and for the BBC in
London. He also recorded, the first modern version of Fantasia sulla Lucia di
Lammermoor for cello and orchestra by F. Saverio Mercadante, for the Warner Fonit label.
For the Italian label Symphonia, he recorded the complete quartets for piano and string
instruments by Johannes Brahms on period instruments. He also recorded the trios, op.99
and op.100 by Franz Schubert and those by Mendelssohn, op. 49 and op. 66; and a CD of
Fantasie inspired by the works of Bellini with the Trio Voces Intimae. He was the official
representative of Italian Culture during the Festival Europalia-Italia and at the Inauguration
of the semester of the Italian Presidency of the European Community.
Two CDs have recently been released by Warner Classics with the recordings of the
integral trios by J.N. Hummel, performed with the Trio Voces Intimae at the prestigious
studios of Teldex in Berlin on period instruments.
He is Musical Director and first violin with the Philharmonia Mediterranea and he
holds annual specialization courses for cello and chamber music in Italy and Spain. Since
1986 he holds the teaching chair for the study of cello at the Conservatory of Music of
Cosenza, Italy.
Voces Intimae, the official representatives of Italian Culture in the world, have performed
at Wigmore Hall and St. John’s Smith Square in London, Carnegie Hall in New York,
Musik Halle in Hamburg, Vredenburg in Utrecht, deSingel in Antwerp, Festival EuropaliaItalia in Belgium, Festival dei due Mondi in Spoleto, Amici della Musica in Florence,
Unione Musicale in Turin, Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti in Rome, Bologna
Festival,Amici della Musica in Perugia, etc. The Trio has performed for the President of
the Italian Repubblic, C.A. Ciampi, at Quirinale in Rome. They have also performed for
BBC-Radio 3 and RAI-Radio 3. Voces Intimae has also worked with the Teatro dell’Opera
of Rome in new ballet productions.
The Trio records for Warner Classics and their first release was the complete edition of
the J.N. Hummel piano trios on two separate CDs performed on period instruments. Voces
Intimae has also recorded three CDs for the Italian label Symphonia, dedicated to the trios
of F. Schubert, of F. Mendelssohn and an unpublished repertoire of 19th century Fantasies
based on the music of Vincenzo Bellini, all performed with period instruments.
The intent of the Trio is to try and bring back to the music its original transparency, to
try and make evident the original intentions of the composers through sound and phrasing,
and bring to light the history that is tied to the piece. The choice of the name, Voces
Intimae, confirms the groups aim to select the more subtle aspects of the repertoire without
being obliged to play like a “round of artillerary”, but rather to show the rhythm of the “trot
of a horse” and the favoring of subtle undertones, the understated, and the veins of
melancholy, all aspects that during the 20th century were ignored.