Francesca Dego / Sir Roger Norrington / Royal Scottish National Orchestra MOZART Violin Concertos KV 216 & KV 218

 

VIOLIN CONCERTOS KV 216 & KV 218

 

Francesca Dego / Francesca Leonardi IL CANNONE

 

IL CANNONE

 

Francesca Dego / Francesca Leonardi BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas 6, 7, 10

Among the best Italian musicians of their generation, Francesca Dego and Francesca Leonardi have been performing together worldwide for the past ten years with repertoire ranging from Baroque to new music.

Francesca Dego (Lecco 1989) has established herself as one of the best young artists on the Italian musical scene. In 2008 she was the first Italian female violinist since 1961 to reach the final of the renowned “Paganini Competition” in Genoa and she won the “Enrico Costa” prize for having been the youngest finalist. Francesca plays a precious Francesco Ruggeri violin (Cremona 1697) and the ex-Ricci Guarneri delGesù (Cremona 1734) courtesy of Florian Leonhard Fine Violins.

Francesca Leonardi, From her earliest years she has earned distinction in many national and international competitions, winning 14 first prizes. Her three CDs with Francesca Dego (SiparioDischi 2005 and 2006 and WideClassique 2011) have been highly praised by critics and extracts from their second CD were used in the sound-track of the new film of prize-winning American director Steven Kroschel, “The Beautiful Truth”. She has performed in broadcasts on Radio Popolare, Radio Classica, the Italian Swiss Radio, RAI Radio 3, Vatican Radio and Tv2000. From a very early age she has showed enthusiasm and passion for teaching and now teaches piano at Trinity School in London.

Francesca Dego / Francesca Leonardi SUITE ITALIENNE

The Italian violin and piano duo Francesca Dego and Francesca Leonardi will release a new disc on Deutsche Grammophon this October, featuring Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne, Respighi’s Violin Sonata in B minor for violin and piano and the world premiere recording of three works by the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

In addition to violin paraphrases of operas by Rossini and Verdi, the disc includes Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s “Ballade” Op. 107 for violin and piano, which was written for and premiered by Tossy Spivakovsky in 1940. It was left to gather dust until February 2018, when it was recovered by Dego with the assistance of the composer’s granddaughter, Diana Castelnuovo-Tedesco. It is now available internationally in print thanks to Edizioni Curci.

Francesca Dego PAGANINI - WOLF-FERRARI Violin Concertos

Celebrated for her sonorous tone, compelling interpretations and flawless technique, Francesca Dego is quickly becoming one of the most sought after young violinists on the international scene. Signed in 2012 by Deutsche Grammophon, her debut album of Paganini’s 24 Caprices and a subsequent complete survey of Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas received critical acclaim. Autumn 2017 sees the release of her highly anticipated first concerto disc featuring works by Paganini and Wolf-Ferrari.

This album marks Italian violinist Francesca Dego’s debut orchestral recording on the Deutsche Grammophon label.

It features two Italian masterpieces: Wolf-Ferrari’s seldom-performed Violin Concerto and Paganini’s renowned Violin Concerto Number 1, which celebrates its 200th anniversary this year.

Francesca recorded Wolf-Ferrari’s Violin Concerto live in March 2017, when she gave the UK premiere of the piece at Symphony Hall with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the renowned Italian conductor Daniele Rustioni.

Francesca regularly appears with the world’s leading orchestras, performing both the Paganini and Wolf-Ferrari concertos extensively in the future.