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Opening Cine-Concert

By 09/07/2022July 16th, 2022No Comments

Opening Cine-Concert with Louis Schwizgebel and Georges Schwizgebel

The illustrious Georges Schwizgebel joins his son Louis Schwizgebel for an exceptional and unprecedented cine-concert!

For the opening night of the Imaginaria Festival, the artistic director Luigi Iovane has the great pleasure of hosting Georges Schwizgebel, one of the most important figures in Swiss animation, together with his son Louis Schwizgebel, a well-known international pianist.

Georges and Louis devised the evening’s program, which alternates between recitals and film screenings. For this cine-concert, Louis Schwizgebel will accompany some works created over the years by his father Georges on the piano.

Here is the program:

• Debussy, Estampes I, Pagode 5′
• La jeune fille et les nuages (2000) Mendelssohn Fugue Op.5, 4’30
• Brahms, Op.118, N.2 Intermezzo, 6′
• Romance (2011) Rachmaninov, cello sonata Op. 19 8’
• Brahms, Op.118, N.4 Intermezzo, N.5 Romanze, N.6 Intermezzo, 12′
• L’homme sans ombre (2004) Judith Gruber-Stitzer 9’30
• Chopin, Nocturnes Op.48 1 & 2, 12′
• Jeu (2006) Prokofiev, Scherzo from concerto N.2, 4′
• Louis plays with the movie – Le roi des aulnes (2015), Schubert/Liszt 5’30

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Special Opening Event – Monday 22 August – Beginning at 10.00pm
Cloister of San Benedetto – Conversano
Free admission until the available seats are reached