Ottorino Respighi: Complete Piano Music, Volume Two
Respighi’s orchestral works are some of the most popular in the mainstream repertoire. His output of piano music, by contrast, is as good as unknown, and this Toccata Classics series will be the first-ever to present it all: original works and transcriptions alike, for solo piano, piano four hands and two pianos. The prentice works on this second volume of solo works reveal a Respighi with roots in the high-Romantic past of Schumann, Chopin and Brahms, but they also show the first signs of his later interest in the Italian pre-Baroque.
Giovanna Gatto piano
Listen To This Recording:
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Sonata in A minor, P004b (1896)
- I Allegro moderato Audio Player
- II Andantino Audio Player
- III Allegro vivace
- Fuga reale a 3 voci in C major, P023a
- Presto in F major, P004d
- Allegro da concerto in B minor, P010
- I Vivace Audio Player
- II Tema Audio Player
- III Sarabanda Audio Player
- IV Allegro con brio Audio Player
- VI Presto
- Scherzo in B flat major, P004c
- Preludio con fuoco in B flat minor, P023
- No. 1 Valse caressante: Tempo lento di valzer Audio Player
- No. 2 Canone: Andantino Audio Player
- No. 3 Notturno: Lento Audio Player
- No. 4 Minuetto Audio Player
- No. 5 Studio: Presto Audio Player
- No. 6 Intermezzo-Serenata: Andante calmo
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Fuga reale a tre voci in C major, P023a (1898)*
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Presto in F major, P004d (1896)*
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Allegro da concerto in B minor, P010 (1896)
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Suite No. 1 in G major, P022 (1898)
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Scherzo in B flat major, P004c (1886)*
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Preludio con fuoco in B flat minor, P023 (1898)
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Sei pezzi per pianoforte, P044 (1903–5)
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* FIRST RECORDINGS
MusicWeb International :
‘[…]the recorded sound is superb and the playing excellent throughout. This is a disc that I shall be returning to often, as it really is very interesting music. It’s amazing that Respighi was able to cram so much interest into some really short little works.’
—Jonathan Welsh, MusicWeb International