Emanuele Torquati with his duo partner, cellist Francesco Dillon, will premiere Lucia Ronchetti new work, RAVEL UNRAVEL, written for the duo and commissioned by several Italian Chamber Music Societies. The piece is a theatrical analysis of the encounter between pianist Paul Wittgenstein and Ravel on the occasion of the private performance in Vienna of what is known as the Left hand Concerto, in the version for 2 pianos on 30th 1932.

The pianist interprets the Left hand Concerto, passing from the orchestral part to the solo piano part as if in a private practice session, with repetitions and pauses, constant obsessive confrontation with the infinity of existing interpretations, exploration of most difficult virtuoso sections. He is the pianist Paul Wittgenstein himself, the amputee who attempts to enrich the spare cadenzas, who criticized Ravel and corrected him. The cellist listens and weaves in and out of pianist’s performance, using a private language, with suggestion of words, howls and monologues. He’s Ravel, at the beginning of his mental illness, the semantic privatist imagined by Wittgenstein, struggling witht the devastion of his mental lucidity and the uniqueness of his compositional quest. From time to time the cellist and the pianist talk to each other, using Ravel and Wittgenstein’s words reinvented by Russian poet Eugene Ostashevsky.

The work, as well as some masterworks from French repertoire such as Debussy Sonata, will be presented at Amici della Musica di Ancona on 11th April, at Accademia Filarmonica Romana on 9th May, at Villa Romana on 14th June, at MITO Settembre Musica on 17th September and in other venues on next concert season.