Pizzetti: Complete Piano Works

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Release Date: 17th Oct 2011
Catalogue No: 9202
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 84 minutes

Pizzetti: Romanza senza parole

Work length4:41

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Giancarlo Simonacci

Pizzetti: Sogno

Work length4:47

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Giancarlo Simonacci

Pizzetti: Poemetto romantico

Work length8:33

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Giancarlo Simonacci

I. Appassionato

Track length2:25

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II. Intermezzo

Track length3:03

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III. Triste

Track length3:05

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Pizzetti: Foglio d'album

Work length4:05

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Giancarlo Simonacci

Pizzetti: Le Danze

Work length8:01

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Giancarlo Simonacci

I. Introduzione - La danza dei sette candelabri

Track length4:25

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II. La danza votiva della faledra

Track length3:36

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Pizzetti: Monte Morello sotto la luna

Work length1:50

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Giancarlo Simonacci

Pizzetti: Da un autunno già lontano

Work length8:11

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Giancarlo Simonacci

No. 1, Sole mattutino sul prato del Roccolo

Track length2:20

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No. 2, In una giornata piovosa, nel bosco

Track length4:09

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No. 3, Al Fontanino

Track length1:42

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Pizzetti: Lento e grave

Work length1:56

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Giancarlo Simonacci

Pizzetti: L'ombra

Work length3:19

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Giancarlo Simonacci

Pizzetti: Piano Sonata

Work length24:45

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Giancarlo Simonacci

I. Assai mosso e arioso, ma non molto vivace

Track length9:30

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II. Adagio

Track length8:07

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III. Turbinoso

Track length7:08

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Pizzetti: Canti di ricordanza

Work length14:44

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Giancarlo Simonacci

I. Molto largo

Track length2:41

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II. Allegro moderato

Track length3:06

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III. Appassionato

Track length3:21

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IV. Andante largo

Track length5:36

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For the first time complete (including 3 world CD premières): the piano works of Ildebrando Pizzetti.

Pizzetti was a contemporary of Respighi, Malipiero and Casella.

His style is retrospective, nostalgic and influenced by the Italian Belcanto.

Excellent performances by Giancarlo Simonacci, a specialist in 20-th century music, as demonstrated in his superb recordings of the piano music of John Cage on Brilliant Classics.

Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1968) belonged to the group of Italian composers (the so called ‘Generation of the ‘80s’), his contemporaries were Respighi, Malipiero and Casella. Of these composers, Respighi and Pizzetti composed relatively little for the piano, and their works for the instrument tend recall music of the past - with echoes of baroque and Gregorian chant detected in many of them.

Pizzetti’s love of melody is quintessentially Italian – a predilection for song, dramatic lyricism and at time moments of great joy and passion – all components found in not only his orchestral music, but in the works for piano on this CD. Many are exquisite miniatures, but the large scale Sonata of 1943 is Pizzetti’s most important piano work and the Variations on a theme from Fra Gherardo (his opera from 1928) show the composer equally at home working on a large scale. In both works musical influences and styles from earlier periods are used to great effect.

Pizzetti: Complete Piano Works

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