Italian piano prodigy to give concert in Budapest – here is the program

The musical program of Scipione Sangiovanni gives honour to Italy. It contains the most admirable examples of keyboard music of the 17th and 18th century, starting from Girolamo Frescobaldi’s puritan improvisation, going through Baldassarre Galuppi’s graceful tranquility, reaching Domenico Scarlatti’s complex creativity.

A concert dedicated to Italy in Budapest

The concert’s focus point is Ferruccio Busoni’s piano transcription of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, originally composed for organ.

The final part of the concert is dedicated to the Italy that appears in the letters through the work of the biggest Hungarian composer, Franz Liszt: on one hand, we can hear two Francesco Petrarca sonnets, on the other the Dies Irae (Mass for the Dead) that is a latin piece attributed to the Franciscan monk Tommaso da Celano – the composer’s one of the most difficult and astonishing piano compositions.

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He already won many awards

Scipione Sangiovanni is one of the pianists of his generation that received the highest number of acknowledgments at the competitions of the Fédération Mondiale des Concours Internationaux de Musique (World Federation of International Music Competitions): from Monza’s Rina Sala Gallo to Zagreb’s Svetislav Stancic, from Barcelona’s Maria Canals to Tromso’s Top of the World.

The AAF Award crowned his carrier in 2021, which is the Alink-Argerich Federation’s acknowledgment assigned to the new generation of the most brilliant pianists. He played in prestigious halls like Mozarteum in Salzburg, Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, Lisinksi Hall in Zagreb, Salle Cortot in Paris, Sala Verdi in Milano and Carnegie Hall in New York.

He worked together with the Croatian Radio-Television Orchestra as soloist, with the „Giuseppe Verdi” Orchestra and the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. His discography dedicated to Handel has been praised by the BBC Music Magazine and radio channel France Musique.
He was recently included in the Steinway Prize Winner Concerts Network, the renowned piano brand’s program to promote the new generation of the most brilliant pianists.

Here is the program

Date: January 19, 2023, 6.30 pm,

Venue: Italian Cultural Institute (Istituto Italiano di Cultura) Sala Federico Fellini (1088 Budapest, Bródy S. u. 8.)

G. Frescobaldi Toccata prima in sol
B. Galuppi Sonata numero 5 in do maggiore
D. Scarlatti Sonata K 247 in do diesis minore, Sonata K 318 in fa diesis maggiore, Sonata K 386 in fa minore
J. S. Bach – F. Busoni Toccata e fuga in re minore BWV 565
F. Liszt Sonetti del Petrarca n. 47 e n. 104
F. Liszt Totentanz

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Source: Press release/Italian Cultural Institute