Title: Complete Piano Music 1
Artist: Aldo Orvieto
Label: Stradivarius
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 8011570371331
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2020-03-06
Number of Discs: 1

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.

Tracks:
1.1 Bianchi e neri~Lento, non troppo / Un poco agitato / Tranquillo / Mosso / Meno mosso / Tem I / Agitato / Piuttosto calmo / Tempo I / Calmo
1.2 Bianchi e neri~Non troppo lento / Lento e rallentando / Allegro / Molto lento / Molto tranquillo / Tranquillo
1.3 Variazione sulla "Pantomima" dell'Amor brujo di Manuel de Falla~[Excerpt]
1.4 Hortus conclusus~I. Mosso
1.5 Hortus conclusus~II. Lento, non troppo
1.6 Hortus conclusus~III. Allegro
1.7 Hortus conclusus~IV. Andante
1.8 Hortus conclusus~V. Tranquillo
1.9 Hortus conclusus~VI. Lentamente, ma fluido
1.10 Hortus conclusus~VII. Allegro moderato
1.11 Hortus conclusus~VIII. Quasi variazioni, Tranquillo ma scorrevole, Mosso, Piuttosto mosso
1.12 A Guido M. Gatti
1.13 Preludio e Fuga~Preludio
1.14 Preludio e Fuga~Fuga a 3
1.15 Preludio, ritmi e canti gregoriani~Preludio: Andante mosso
1.16 Preludio, ritmi e canti gregoriani~Ritmi. I: Allegro molto moderato
1.17 Preludio, ritmi e canti gregoriani~Ritmi. II: Allegretto
1.18 Preludio, ritmi e canti gregoriani~Canti gregoriani: I. Lento
1.19 Preludio, ritmi e canti gregoriani~Canti gregoriani: II. Allegro moderato
1.20 Preludio, ritmi e canti gregoriani~Canti gregoriani: III. Andante
1.21 Preludio, ritmi e canti gregoriani~Canti gregoriani: IV. Eroico
1.22 Epitaffio
1.23 Deux fragments de Filomela e l'Infatualo~Danza e morte dell'orso
1.24 Deux fragments de Filomela e l'Infatualo~Filomela in Arcadia
1.25 Impressioni~I. Una processione a mezzanotte
1.26 Impressioni~II. Madrigale
1.27 Poemetti lunari~I. Salmodiando, gravemente
1.28 Poemetti lunari~II. Mestamente, ma non lento
1.29 Poemetti lunari~III. Lugubre
1.30 Poemetti lunari~IV. Presto
1.31 Poemetti lunari~V. Mestamente (quasi senza ritmo)
1.32 Poemetti lunari~VI. Molto lento / Molto più mosso e marcato / Agitato / Lento assai
1.33 Poemetti lunari~VII. Agitatissimo

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