Very strong in my heart

SCHUBERT
Noble Waltzes D 969 (n. 1-6)
Klavierstücke in E flat minor D 946 n. 1
Piano Pieces in E flat major D 946 No. 2
Andantino from Sonata in A major D 959
Andante sostenuto from the Sonata in B flat major D 960
Impromptu in E flat major op. 90 no. 2

The last year of Franz Schubert's life, the unmistakable creative anxiety of a thirty-year-old genius, his illness, his circle of friends, the lack of understanding of the musical society of the time, the peremptory affirmation of his own personality. Sandro Cappelletto - writer and music historian, critic for La Stampa, host of Rai programs - tells the story, casting his gaze on some of the masterpieces created in that period. Masterpieces that made their author "the most daring and free-spirited of all modern musicians" (Robert Schumann).

SANDRO CAPPELLETTO Born in Venice, he is a writer and music historian, with a degree in Philosophy. He studied harmony and composition with Robert W. Mann. As an author he has published: Farinelli – La voce perduta; Farò grande questo teatro!, an investigation into Italian opera houses; a monograph on Beethoven (Newton Compton); Mozart’s String Quartets; The Voices of the Cello; Altravelocità – Adventures of a Train Traveller; Mozart – La notte delle dissonanze, which gave rise to a successful show. A similar path, from text to stage, for Messiaen – l’angelo del Tempo and for Da straniero inizio il cammino – Schubert, the last year. Author of broadcasts for Rai-Radio Tre and Rai 5 (Momus and Inventare il tempo), he is active as a writer for the theatre and musical theatre, collaborating with numerous composers. La Padrona di casa, a text for soprano-actress and piano from 2010, tells the story of the relationship between George Sand and Fryderyk Chopin. In 2011 he wrote, for and with Ramin Bahrami, a dramaturgy on Bach's Goldberg Variations. He debuted in 2013 with Che Verdi viva! with Gabriele Lavia. He was the director of Studi Verdiani and is an Academician of the Accademia Filarmonica Romana (of which he was Artistic Director) and of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
Professional journalist, he writes for the daily newspaper La Stampa.

MARCO SCHOOL He graduated with honors from the Conservatory of Perugia under the guidance of Franco Fabiani. He perfected his studies with Aldo Ciccolini, Ennio Pastorino, Lya De Barberiis, Paul Badura-Skoda, Joaquin Achúcarro and Katia Labèque. He has played for important musical institutions: Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Teatro Eliseo and Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Teatro Regio in Parma, Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Ravello Festival, Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, Teatro Valli in Reggio Emilia, Serate Musicali in Milan, I concerto del Quirinale live on RAI Radio3, Teatro San Carlo and Associazione Scarlatti in Naples, Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, Chopin Institute in Warsaw, and many others in Italy and abroad. As a soloist he has played under the guidance of many important conductors: Claudio Scimone (I Solisti Veneti), Yuri Bashmet (I Solisti di Mosca), Andrew Constantine (Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie), Romano Gandolfi (Orchestra Verdi di Milano), Howard Griffits (Orchestra da Camera di Zurich), Richard Hickox, Lior Shambadal (Berliner Symphoniker), etc. He has recorded for Phoenix Classics, Stradivarius, Brilliant Classics, RAI. He has participated several times in the program “Inventare il tempo” by Sandro Cappelletto broadcast on RAI5.