Giovanni Sollima and Francesco Libetta

When one thinks of Chopin, the mind immediately runs to the piano.

It is there that the best-known part of his writing is concentrated: the singing, the virtuosity, the harmonic invention, everything that makes his voice so recognizable.
That is why the works for cello and piano hold a special place: they are few in number, but they are enough to show another side of his musical world.

This is where the path proposed by Giovanni Sollima and Francesco Libetta, to whom fate, or perhaps a particularly happy astral alignment, has entrusted the task of venturing into this territory, begins.
The circumstance is not too surprising, because both Giovanni Sollima and Francesco Libetta belong with all evidence to the category of musical archdeities descended from the Platonic hyperuranium, and when they fuse their powers the result I would say resembles more a Dragon Ball Z fusion than a normal chamber collaboration.
Their work, after all, is built on a very solid foundation: first editions and manuscripts, first of all; and then instruments that really speak the language of this repertoire, because in the recording released by C&Co New Recording (a label based in Key Byscaine, Florida), and now printed in collaboration with the Friends of Music in Cagliari, Italy, Giovanni adopts a gut mount (almost a human voice) and Francesco plays an Érard piano from Chopin’s era.

[taken from the text of the CD booklet, by Carlotta Maestrini].

A wine tasting will be offered to the audience at the end of the concert.