Saverio Lepore

« C'est vraiment trop injuste ! » s’exclamait l’adorable poussin noir du dessin animé des années 1960-1970… Qui n’a jamais exprimé la plainte de Calimero ? Qui n'a jamais, aussi, pesté contre les bougons, grincheux et grognons qui passent leur temps à formuler leurs griefs ? Saverio Tomasella, psychanalyste, s'adresse ici aux Calimero qui voudraient devenir moins râleurs, ainsi qu'aux proches de ces personnes difficiles à vivre. …

The CD, unpublished and live, features the clarinetist Tommaso Lonquich in Mozart's Concerto for clarinet and orchestra K 622 in A major, in the reconstruction by Lonquich himself for the original basset clarinet. He is accompanied by the Canova Chamber Orchestra conducted by Enrico Saverio Pagano who also perform the first version of the famous Symphony n. 40 K 550 in G minor by the Austrian composer.

Qu’elle soit surprotectrice, envahissante, conflictuelle ou toxique, la famille est un lieu quicristallise attentes et tensions.
Pourquoi est-ce si difficile de vivre ensemble lorsque l’on est du même sang ? Pourquoi attendons-nous autant de nos parents, de nos frères et sœurs, de nos enfants même, alors que nous savons bien que beaucoup de ces attentes sont dépassées et déplacées ? …

Un manifeste présentant l'hypersensibilité comme une force plutôt que comme une maladie et montrant les avantages de cette sensibilité élevée dans le monde en plein changement du début du XXIe siècle. L'auteur met notamment en avant les capacités d'empathie et d'engagement des hypersensibles. …

Saverio Mercadante was one of Italy’s ground-breaking composers in the development of opera, admired by contemporaries such as Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini and Verdi. But during the years 1814 to 1820, inspired by fellow conservatoire students and their virtuoso teachers, he embarked on a series of works for the flute. They include seven concertos, happy exceptions to the rule in opera-obsessed Italy of the day. The solo writing is vividly characterised, full of technical demands perfectly adapted to the instrument’s then more limited capabilities and permeated with a rich bel canto lyricism.

A highly regarded composer in his day and considered the equal of Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti, Saverio Mercadante pioneered the transformation of bel canto opera into real music drama. He wrote the operatic tragedy I Briganti (The Brigands) not only to prove himself to the Parisian public but as a direct challenge to Bellini’s I puritani, premièred the previous year. Mercadante’s individual style of canto fiorito and distinctive theatricality demonstrate that opera need not be a mere succession of virtuoso vocal arias, and it paved the way for Verdi’s later dramas. Prepared from a new critical edition, this production was described as ‘outstanding’ by The New York Times.

Riccardo Muti's 2011 performances of Saverio Mercadante's I due Figaro (The Two Figaros) were the first it had received since 1835, and this Ducale release of the presentation at the Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna, Italy, is the world-premiere recording. The story of this comic opera is a sequel to events in the Beaumarchais plays, which inspired Rossini's Barber of Seville and Mozart's Marriage of Figaro; the characters of Figaro, Susanna, Cherubino, and the Count and Countess Almaviva are seen a decade later in another farce of disguises and deception. The music is very much in the animated style of Rossini, with an exotic quality that Mercadante discovered on his visit to Madrid, and the mood of the opera is brightened by the combination of Neapolitan tunefulness and Spanish dance rhythms.