From Bach to Bacewicz, via Paganini - a musical journey through the history of the violin
Representative of the cultural tradition of Italy as the homeland of the violin, Francesca Dego sees interpreting musical pieces as a work of reading. “For me the literary and musical worlds are complementary and have always influenced each other profoundly,” says Francesca Dego. “It would be impossible to execute a piece of music without reading those authors who were contemporaries of the composer, who lived in the same period and shared the same poetry.”
Continuing the idea of reading pieces of music, Dego prepared for her interlude in Frankfurt a small journey through the history of the solo violin repertoire, from Johann Sebastian Bach – the first author to represent the Western tradition – up to Grażyna Bacewicz, one of the rare women composers, contemporary of the 20th century.
To link the two compositions, a piece by Nicolo Paganini, Capriccio n. 16, which was the inspiration for Grażyna Bacewicz to compose her own capriccio in homage to Paganini.
Back to the roots, Francesca Dego concludes with the Sarabande in D minor by Johann Sebastian Bach, which, like the other two pieces, she interprets on a violin by Francesco Ruggeri from 1697 - another representative of the cultural roots and the great Italian violon making tradition.