Game Fair 2012: New for the Game Fair 2012: on the hunting theme, this year a horn quartet will perform.
The Diana quartet, composed of, Alessandro Saraconi, Edoardo Pirozzi, Rino Pecorelli and Vincenzo Parente will perform hunts drawn from:
- Waldhornquartette by Heinz Liebert
- Die Fanfaren des Makrart festzuges by Josef Schantl
- On the hunt for GF Händel (arrangement by Edoardo Pirozzi)
- Hunting rings by G. Rossini, taken from the opera Guglielmo Tell
- Diana Suite by Vincenzo Parente
- Suite for horn quartet from the opera Il Franco Cacciatore by CM von Weber
- Missa Venatoria by O. Di Lasso (arrangement by Edoardo Pirozzi)
Hunting is an ancient musical form, born in the fifteenth century, first as vocal music and only later as instrumental, which draws its subject from hunting and life in nature. Today hunting is almost exclusively entrusted to the horn, precisely by virtue of its hunting origin.
The quartet proposes hunts taken largely from the German tradition: hunters in Germany still use the horn when hunting, as well as pieces by classical authors and original compositions.
The horn was probably the first musical instrument invented by man. During a hunt in prehistoric times, it was discovered that by blowing into the hollow horn of an animal, powerful sounds could be obtained that were suitable for communicating with companions on the hunt. Despite the subsequent musical evolution, which brought the horn to all orchestral ensembles and to merit numerous solo concerts by the greatest composers, we can still find the ancient hunting atmospheres in the modern horn.
Biography
Alessandro Saraconi
Graduated in Horn and Chamber Music at the S. Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, since 2002 he has been 1st soloist horn of the Rome Symphony Orchestra. He has collaborated with the orchestras of: National Academy S. Cecilia, RAI, Fondazione Toscanini, Teatro Comunale Firenze, Opera di Roma, Orchestra Roma and Lazio, Sicilian Symphony, Teatro Bellini Catania, Teatro Lirico Cagliari, Solisti Aquilani.
Edward PIROZZI
Graduated in Horn at the S. Cecilia Conservatory in Rome and at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold in Germany, in the 2010/11 season he was 2/4 horn of the Saarbrücken Opera House and from 2009 to 2012 he was first horn of the Detmolder Kammer Orchester. Fellow of the Wagner Verband, the Orchester Jugend Künstler of Bayreuth, the IJOA Orchestra of Bayreuth, the European Union Youth Wind Orchestra in Luxembourg City and the DAAD and GFF foundations.
Rino PECORELLI
Graduated in Horn at the S. Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, he currently holds the role of third horn at the Rome Symphony Orchestra. He has collaborated as first horn at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, the Symphonic Orchestra of Rome, the Lyric Theater of Cagliari, the Sanremo Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic, I Solisti Aquilani. He has also collaborated with the Rai Orchestra of Turin and the National Academy of S. Cecilia in Rome. He regularly collaborates with the Italian Chamber Orchestra and Maestro Salvatore Accardo, with the Rome Philharmonic and Maestro Uto Ughi and with the Roma Sinfonietta Orchestra, with which, under the guidance of Maestro Ennio Morricone, he performed recordings, concerts and tours all over the world.
Vincent PARENT
Graduated from the Conservatory of Benevento, he perfected himself with the Masters Dale Clevenger and Radovan Vlatkovic. He played in the Verdi orchestra of Milan, at the San Carlo Theater in Naples, at the Municipal Theater in Florence. Since 2003 he has held the role of 4th horn in the Symphony Orchestra of Rome.