Musical Interpretation and Performance from the 19th to the 21st Century

Programme

Recordings

David Chung – What Recordings of 17th-century French Harpsichord Music (1980-2020) Tell Us about Interpretative Strategies and Embellishment Styles 

Anna Quaranta – Le prime registrazioni della Fantasia Op. 17 di Schumann (1905-1955). Un’analisi comparata

Inja Stanović – Austro-German Revivals: (Re)constructing Acoustic Recordings 

Massimo Zicari – Early Recordings of Donizetti’s Operatic Arias: Reconstructing a Living Tradition 

Zsombor Németh – Rudolf Kolisch’s Two Recordings of Bartók’s String Quartet No. 5

Musical Work between Text, Oral Tradition and Performance

David Rowland – Composers, Engravers and Piano Music Texts in the Long Nineteenth Century 

Christina Guillaumier – Curation, Assimilation and Deconstruction: Consequences of Editorial Approaches to Performance 

Chiara Antico – Bach’s «Ciaccona» in Birkenau: Missing Sound for Preservation

Musical Experimentation and Happenings in 20th and 21th Century

Yusuke Nakahara – A Composer-Pianist in Despair: Bartók’s Early Adventure with ‘Experimental Music’ 

Manuel Farolfi – «The Actual, Visible Manipulation of the Machines»: Live Performance Elements in John Cage’s Electronic Music 

Alessandro Mastropietro – «(De)Textualizing»: orizzonti e traiettorie della performance musicale sperimentale a Roma intorno al 1970 

Noga Rachel Chelouche – Alternative Performance of Western Classical Music in the 21st Century through Installation and Performance Art

Panel. How They Used to Sing Verdi

Daniele Palma – Urli, dolcezze, falsetti. Come si cantava Verdi nella Londra vittoriana 

Maria Beatrice Venanzi – Come si cantava Verdi in Francia (secondo i recensori) 

Roberto Scoccimarro – La ricezione verdiana nelle recensioni della stampa tedesca nell’Ottocento: questioni estetiche e interpretative 

Respondent: Alessandro Roccatagliati

Technical Skills and Musical Interpretation

Pierre Girod – Vocaliser la musique de Haendel en France (1827-1927) : le cas de l’agilité « di bravura » 

Maria Birbili – The Importance of the Singers: Virtuosity and Formal Structure as a Means of Characterization in the Operas of Rossini and Donizetti 

Ângelo Martingo – The Rationality of Expressive Communication: Structure, Performance, and Music Reception

Keynote Speaker

Rémy Campos – L’interprétation historiquement informée de la musique : un problème sans solution ?

Piano Music and Gesture 

Inès Taillandier-Guittard – Le geste sensible : mouvement et expression pianistiques au XIX^e siècle 

Arabella Pare – Whose Music? Interpreting Authorship and Identity in Brahms’s Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann Op. 9

Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli – Performer Hero: The Gestures of a Virtuoso 

Luís Bastos Machado – The Concept of Craftsmanship as a Reaction to Modernity in Germanically-Trained Pianists during the First Half of the Twentieth Century 

Chao Du – Au bout des doigts : les partitions de Yvonne Loriod

Musical Interpretation and Musical Narrative

Hector Cornilleau – Penser l’interprétation dans les encyclopédies et dictionnaires de musique sous la Restauration : le cas de l’« Encyclopédie méthodique » de Panckoucke 

Peter Asimov & Christopher Brent Murray – Performers at Work on Webern’s «Variations» Op. 27: The Places of Analysis in Interpretive Practice 

Hilary Metzger – Reconciling Written Performance Instructions with the Playing on Early Recordings: A Literary Analysis of the Works of Carl Flesch

Performance and Society

Giulia Brunello – Performance nei salotti: spazio domestico e ruoli di genere 

Galliano Ciliberti – Dirigere Bach, Händel e “musica barocca” a Dresda nella prima metà del XIX secolo 

Magdalena Oliferko-Storck – Between Europe and America: Public Concert as a Product on the Market in the First Half of the 19th Century 

Sandrine Coyez – American Crooners On Air (1930-1950): Cultural Meanings and Business of Vocal Intimacy

Performance Practice

Guillaume Tardif – Intentionality, Directionality: Exploring the Art of Phrasing (in Violin Playing) 

Robert de Bree – The 19th-Century Improvised Fantasia for Wind Players 16.30-17.30 

Nir Cohen-Shalit – (Un)interpreting the Romantics: Historically Informed Practices Through the Study of Annotations of 19th-Century German Orchestras 

Szabolcs Illés – The Beginnings of the Early Music Movement in Hungary: Performances and Their Reception from the Long 19th Century

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