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Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Gian Francesco Malipiero - Piano Music (Sandro Ivo Bartoli)


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Composer: Gian Francesco Malipiero
  • (01-04) Preludi Autunnali
  • (05-09) Barlumi
  • (10-14) Maschere che passano
  • (15-17) Poem asolani
  • (18-20) Omaggi
  • (21) A Claudio Debussy

Sandro Ivo Bartoli, piano
Date: 1995
Label: ASV


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Review

PERFORMANCE: **** / SOUND: *****

Malipiero is one of the most striking among non-French composers influenced early on by Debussy and Ravel. A fine Marco Polo set has already put a case for his symphonies. Now ASV, which won an award for its recording of his string quartets, has come up with an equally desirable disc of his piano music. Sandro Ivo Bartoli turns in some highly attractive performances of this music, through which peers not just the Debussy of Cloches à travers les feuilles, but that of the Golliwogg’s Cake-Walk too. A wide range of moods and contrasts colours these mainly First World War pieces – often sombre, with more than a hint of the dance of death – but also optimistic and wittily ironic. There’s a well-voiced rival Nuova Era disc by Victoria Terekiev, who sometimes manages greater clarity. Her capable efforts conclude with the exploratory, early Poemetti lunari. But few will be less than delighted with Bartoli’s warm-sounding, slightly mellower, more laid-back ASV set, which has the bonus of the evocative La notte dei morti and a disconsolate final homage to Debussy dating from 1920.

-- Roderic Dunnett, BBC Music Magazine

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Gian Francesco Malipiero (18 March 1882 – 1 August 1973) was an Italian composer, musicologist, music teacher and editor. Malipiero studied mostly with Marco Enrico Bossi. In 1913, Malipiero moved to Paris, where he attended the première of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps, and after that, repudiated almost all the compositions he had written up to that time. Malipiero had an ambivalent attitude towards the Austro-German musical tradition, and was strongly critical of sonata form. His orchestral works include seventeen compositions he called symphonies, of which however only eleven are numbered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gian_Francesco_Malipiero

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Sandro Ivo Bartoli (born February 10, 1970 in Pisa) is an Italian pianist. From the early 1990s, with Shura Cherkassky’s encouragement, Bartoli has rediscovered, played and recorded Italian classical music from the early twentieth century, leading a fashion. After this success, Bartoli signed his first recording contract, with ASV, for an album of the piano works of Malipiero. Hí world premiere recording of Malipiero's piano concertos for CPO received a Diapason D'Or/Découvert award in France. More recently, Bartoli has been involved in a project to bring back to public attention the historic opera houses of Italy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandro_Ivo_Bartoli
http://www.sandroivobartoli.com/

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