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Mario Pilati - Concerto for Orchestra; Suite for Strings and Piano (Adriano)


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Composer: Mario Pilati
  • (01) Concerto for Orchestra in C major
  • (04) 3 Pieces for Orchestra
  • (07) Suite for Strings and Piano
  • (11) By the Cradle (Alla culla - Ninna-nanna)

Tomáš Nemec, piano (1-3)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Adriano, conductor

Date: 2008
Label: Naxos (Marco Polo)
https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.570873

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Review

ARTISTIC QUALITY: 9 / SOUND QUALITY: 9

Mario Pilati (1903-1938) was a minor figure in modern Italian music, but an attractive one nonetheless. All of this music was written between 1925 and 1938, the year of the composer’s untimely death. His style might best be described as “neo-classical verismo” in that the forms are the ones we have come to expect from the neo-classical movement (minuet, saraband, rondo, etc.), but the idiom comes straight from the school of Puccini and Mascagni. There’s also a healthy dose of folk music in the Concerto for Orchestra’s concluding Rondò alla tirolese, or in the Habanera from the Three Pieces for Orchestra. In short, the music is tuneful, charming, very much of its period, and extremely enjoyable in its unpretentious way. The performances are also expert: Pilati doesn’t put too much strain on his interpreters, but Adriano, pianist Tomás Nemec, and the Slovak Radio Symphony don’t take Pilati for granted and give him the kind of advocacy he both needs and deserves. The sonics are equally pleasing. This is a welcome novelty that I can see many collectors of offbeat repertoire adding to their collections. [10/20/2008]

-- David HurwitzClassicsToday

More reviews:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2008/Oct08/Pilati_8570873.htm
https://www.allmusic.com/album/mario-pilati-concerto-for-orchestra-suite-for-strings-and-piano-mw0001861306
https://www.audaud.com/mario-pilati-concerto-for-orchestra-in-c-major-three-pieces-for-orchestra-suite-for-strings-and-piano-by-the-cradle-tomas-nemec-pianoslovak-radio-symphony-orchestra-adriano-naxos/
https://www.naxos.com/reviews/reviewslist.asp?catalogueid=8.570873&languageid=EN

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Mario Pilati (2 June 1903 – 10 December 1938) was an Italian composer. He was born in Naples and entered the Conservatorio di Musica San Pietro a Majella at the age of fifteen, studying under Antonio Savasta. Pilati worked as a teacher and music critic in Milan and Palermo, before returning to Naples in 1938, where he became ill and died just before the outbreak of World War II. His output is considerable given his few years of compositional maturity. It includes a Concerto for Orchestra (1932), premiered by Dmitri Mitropoulos, a Suite for Strings and Piano (1925) and several chamber works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Pilati

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Adriano (born July 10, 1944) is a Swiss-born conductor-composer. Adriano established himself as a specialist on Ottorino Respighi in the late 1970s, and has conducted many other recordings of obscure or neglected symphonic repertoire. He also initiated and recorded a series of fifteen CDs mainly of European film music composers, and created and directed a series of classical music videos. All of his recording projects (49 in total) have found wide recognition and his commitment is known to be uncompromising. Adriano has also composed songs, orchestral, chamber and incidental pieces.

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