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