Date/Time
Date(s) - 07/Apr/2019
Genre - Piano recitals
Leslie Howard and Ludovico Troncanetti, piano 4 hands
In a programme of W. A. Mozart: Sonata in F major KV497; Edvard Grieg: 4 Norwegian Dances Op. 35; Anton Rubinstein: Sonata in D major Op. 89 and Franz Liszt: Sonnambula di Bellini – Grande Fantasia di concerto S627
In association with Italian Cultural Institute, Mumbai
To celebrate his seventieth birthday, Leslie Howard has prepared some of the works which have proved most in demand by his many followers throughout the years: a programme of Liszt’s operatically inspired piano music that he is playing in many countries. 2018 will also see the release of one further CD of hitherto unrecorded pieces by Liszt, finally bringing the total to 100, and so extending the already unequalled accomplishment of the largest solo artist recording project in the history of classical music. (The new disc can be safely slotted into the famous complete Liszt boxed set which has been available from Hyperion Records since 2011.) This critically acclaimed project merited Leslie Howard’s entry in the Guinness Book of World Records, six Grands Prix du Disque, the Medal of St. Stephen, the Pro Cultura Hungarica award and a mounted bronze cast of Liszt’s hand presented by the Hungarian President.
Leslie Howard has balanced his prodigious recording career with an international concert itinerary which has seen him performing regularly throughout the world for more than half a century, always with a repertoire that seeks to extend the audience’s experience and to challenge accepted hierarchies of received wisdom. He has appeared regularly with the world’s finest orchestras, and has also pursued a distinguished career as a chamber musician, partnering many of the greatest solo musicians and ensembles of our time.
In addition to his solo Liszt recordings, Leslie Howard’s CD discography contains many other important world première recordings, including the four piano sonatas of Rubinstein, the three piano sonatas of Tchaikovsky and a disc of Scandinavian piano sonatas. All his early solo and duo recordings (with David Stanhope) of the music of Grainger have been reissued in a 5-CD set by Eloquence. There are also the Piano Quartets of Rubinstein – world première recordings for Hyperion, 25 Etudes in Black and White – his own compositions recorded for ArtCorp, and a disc pairing the two Rachmaninoff piano sonatas for Melba Recordings. Melba has also released two CDs with Mattia Ometto joining Howard in the complete music of Reynaldo Hahn for two pianos and piano duet. A work in progress, Brilliant Classics are issuing three sets each of 3 CDs of Liszt’s complete music for two pianos, again with Mattia Ometto – the first box contains all 12 of Liszt’s own two-piano versions of his symphonic poems.
In his capacity as a renowned scholar working from primary sources, Professor Howard has produced 13 volumes of Liszt Society Publications for The Hardie Press, including the complete chamber music, 30 volumes of the Music Section of the Liszt Society Journal, and 4 volumes of the new Urtext Liszt scores for Edition Peters (with a much-praised version of the Liszt Sonata). His other editorial work includes a new reconstruction and orchestration of Paganini’s fifth violin concerto for the collected Paganini Edition in Italy, the full score of Bellini’s ‘Adelson e Salvini’, and the now-standard two-piano score of Rachmaninoff’s 4th Concerto for Boosey & Hawkes.
Ludovico Troncanetti, was born in Siena in May 1991. He began studying piano at 13 and just one year later he entered the Siena Conservatory and in 2009 he began studies in London with the world-renowned pianist Leslie Howard. He has studied composition at the Conservatory “G. Verdi” of Milan with Maestro Gianni Possio. In 2012 he played Mozart’s G Major piano concerto K.453 with the “Rinaldo Franci” Orchestra in the Church of St. Augustine, and in June 2010 the Rondo “Krakowiak” in F Major by Chopin at the “Teatro Rinnovati”. He has participated in masterclasses
with pianists such as Andrea Lucchesini, Leslie Howard (Camposampiero Academy), Pier Narciso Masi (Academy Corelli Fusignano, Conservatory of Lucca, Music Academy of Florence, Pomarance and Modena) and Henri Sigfridsson (the renowned Academy of Music Palace Ricci in Montepulciano). As a soloist he has performed at many venues including the Hall of Mirrors of the Accademia dei Rozzi in Siena, Teatro dei Rinnovati, Teatro dei Rozzi, Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Montenapoleone Association in Milan, for the “Toscana Classica” Festival at the Museum of Orsanmichele and S. Stefano in Ponte Vecchio in Florence. In addition he has also appeared at the Dubai Festival, Lucca Chamber Music Festival, Bulgaria Chamber Hall in Sofia, Reform Club in London, “Settimana della Musica”in Murlo, Festival “Puccini e la sua Lucca” in solo recitals and with the Orchestra Filarmonica di Lucca , Theatre Vittoria, Educatorio della Provvidenza, Villa Tesoriera and Auditorium “Vivaldi” in Turin, “G.Verdi” Institute in Asti, Camerata Musicale Sulmonese, San Giacomo Festival in Bologna, Roma3 Orchestra Concert seasons in Rome, Theatre “Paolo Grassi” in Cisternino, Theatre Comunale in Novoli, Theatre San Carlo in Modena, Politeama in Seveso, Theatre “Belloni” in Barlassina, Casa Verdi in Milan, PianoMilano City, Monteverdi Piano Summer Festival, “Amici della Musica ” in Oleggio, “Suoni dal Golfo” Festival in Lerici etc..
Ludovico also has wide experience playing chamber music including piano music for four hands and duos. His wide repertoire ranges from Bach to the great composers of the early 1900s. In 2015 he played the Max Reger concerto op.114 and joined Leslie Howard in a two-piano concert of music by Liszt at the prestigious Reform Club in London. He also formed a professional duo with Leslie Howard, 2 pianos and 4 hands, currently performing in Italy and mostly abroad. They made their first 4 hands piano duo sold-out debut in November 2016 at the Rozzi’s Theatre in Siena and in January 2018 they made the italian premiere of the 2 pianos Fantasy Op.73 by Anton Rubinstein at the Chigiana Academy.
Troncanetti is a great admirer of the music of the works of Franz Liszt and has been assisting Dr Leslie Howard, one of the world experts of Liszt’s music, on the Italian translation of the catalogue of the complete works of Liszt and into the research of some copies of Liszt’s piano rarities, for the Hyperion label. He’s going to record the 4 Piano Sonatas by Anton Rubinstein for the label MOVIMENTO CLASSICAL. In 2019 he will be touring in many places such as Italy(Camerata Musicale Sulmonese, Società del Quartetto in Milan), India, Germany, Portugal (Centro Cultural de Belém), Russia, USA, China, etc.
