A significant event as part of the Concerti del Quirinale di Radio3, broadcast live nationally. The morning featured the Brass Quintet of the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, an elite ensemble that presented a program characterized by profound timbral research and academic-level instrumental virtuosity.

The ensemble, consisting of Roberto Rossi and Ercole Ceretta on trumpets, Marco Peciarolo on horn, Devid Ceste on trombone, and Gianfranco Marchesi on bass trombone, explored a heterogeneous repertoire. The performance highlighted refined dynamic control and the structural cohesion necessary to navigate the coloristic complexities of the program, ranging from Baroque counterpoint to 20th-century aesthetics.

Prisma and the Dialogue Between Eras

Within this narrative framework, the performance of Prisma by Andrea Ravizza took place, a composition embodying the search for a balance between geometric rigor and expressive sensitivity. Positioning the piece alongside classics by Giovanni Gabrieli, Johann Sebastian Bach, and the jazz-inflected syntheses of Leonard Bernstein emphasized the function of the sonic "prism": an analytical structure capable of refracting the brass section’s timbral light into an ever-changing spectrum of frequencies.

Concert Program and Performance Practice

The concert offered a carefully curated selection of works: from Gabrieli's Canzon per sonare n. 4 to Bach's Contrapunctus IX from The Art of Fugue, and Maurer's 12 kleine Stücke. The second half shifted toward narrative forms with Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia overture, a suite of Grieg’s lyric pieces, and finally, Bernstein’s West Side Story Suite.