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Malipiero / Orvieto - Complete Piano Music 1 [CD]

Malipiero / Orvieto - Complete Piano Music 1 [CD]

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This collection of piano pieces by Gian Francesco Malipiero (Venice, 1882 - Treviso, 1973) almost seems to take us along a winding Venetian canal as we move through the moods of a composer who made the contamination between art and life the cornerstone of his existence. As he himself wrote in a letter to the French musicologist Henry Prunières in summer 1924: "My work is the barometer of my life". From the extreme perspective of Bianchi e neri (1964), the last of his piano works, all the way back to the Poemetti lunari (1909-10), perhaps one of the first characteristic expressions of his style, Malipiero's music explores the evocative possibilities of free and concise forms. His proclivity for a laconic style leads him to repudiate thematic elaboration in favor of short musical panels; a rambling flow more than a narrative evolution, timbric quality over ornamental virtuosity. Gino Gorini, the first great interpreter of Malipierian pianism, has well grasped the paradoxical game of antithesis that is at the core of Malipiero's invention when he speaks of a "discontinuous continuity, an unregulated rule". The result, however, is an imaginative and coherent world, one of the most original and unique of the first half of the twentieth century in Italy.

Tracklist:

  1. Bianchi E Neri: I. Lento, Non Troppo
  2. Bianchi E Neri: II. Non Troppo Lento
  3. Variazione Sulla Pantomima Dell' "Amor Brujo" Di Manuel De Falla
  4. Hortus Conclusus: I. Mosso
  5. Hortus Conclusus: II. Lento, Non Troppo
  6. Hortus Conclusus: III. Allegro
  7. Hortus Conclusus: IV. Andante
  8. Hortus Conclusus: V. Tranquillo
  9. Hortus Conclusus: VI. Lentamente, Ma Fluido
  10. Hortus Conclusus: VII. Allegro Moderato
  11. Hortus Conclusus: VIII. Quasi Variazioni, Tranquillo Ma Scorrevole, Mosso, Piuttosto Mosso
  12. A Guido M. Gatti
  13. Preludio E Fuga: I. Preludio
  14. Preludio E Fuga: II. Fuga
  15. Preludio, Ritmi E Canti Gregoriani: I. Preludio
  16. Preludio, Ritmi E Canti Gregoriani: II. Ritmi. Allegro Molto Moderato
  17. Preludio, Ritmi E Canti Gregoriani: III. Ritmi. Allegretto
  18. Preludio, Ritmi E Canti Gregoriani: IV. Canti Gregoriani. Lento
  19. Preludio, Ritmi E Canti Gregoriani: V. Canti Gregoriani. Allegro Moderato
  20. Preludio, Ritmi E Canti Gregoriani: VI. Canti Gregoriani. Andante
  21. Preludio, Ritmi E Canti Gregoriani: VII. Canti Gregoriani. Eroico
  22. Epitaffio
  23. Filomela E L'infatuato (Transcr. G.F. Malipiero For Solo Piano): Danza E Morte Dell'orso
  24. Filomela E L'infatuato (Transcr. G.F. Malipiero For Solo Piano): Filomela In Arcadia
  25. Impressioni: I. Una Processione A Mezzanotte, Da Un'acquaforte Di John Wright
  26. Impressioni: II. Madrigale
  27. Poemetti Lunari: I. Salmodiando, Gravemente
  28. Poemetti Lunari: II. Mestamente, Ma Non Lento
  29. Poemetti Lunari: III. Lugubre
  30. Poemetti Lunari: IV. Presto
  31. Poemetti Lunari: V. Mestamente, Quasi Senza Ritmo
  32. Poemetti Lunari: VI. Molto Lento - Molto Più Mosso E Marcato
  33. Poemetti Lunari: VII. Agitatissimo

UPC: 8011570371331
Label: STRADIVARIUS
Release Date: 3.6.20
Format: CD

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