Ottorino Respighi: Complete Piano Music, Volume Two

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Catalogue No: TOCC0605
EAN/UPC: 5060113446053
Release Date: 2021-08-06
Composer: Ottorino Respighi
Artists: Giovanna Gatto

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:

    Sonata in A minor, P004b (1896)

  1. I Allegro moderato
  2. II Andantino
  3. III Allegro vivace
  4. Fuga reale a tre voci in C major, P023a (1898)*

  5. Fuga reale a 3 voci in C major, P023a
  6. Presto in F major, P004d (1896)*

  7. Presto in F major, P004d
  8. Allegro da concerto in B minor, P010 (1896)

  9. Allegro da concerto in B minor, P010
  10. Suite No. 1 in G major, P022 (1898)

  11. I Vivace
  12. II Tema
  13. III Sarabanda
  14. IV Allegro con brio
  15. VI Presto
  16. Scherzo in B flat major, P004c (1886)*

  17. Scherzo in B flat major, P004c
  18. Preludio con fuoco in B flat minor, P023 (1898)

  19. Preludio con fuoco in B flat minor, P023
  20. Sei pezzi per pianoforte, P044 (1903–5)

  21. No. 1 Valse caressante: Tempo lento di valzer
  22. No. 2 Canone: Andantino
  23. No. 3 Notturno: Lento
  24. No. 4 Minuetto
  25. No. 5 Studio: Presto
  26. No. 6 Intermezzo-Serenata: Andante calmo

* FIRST RECORDINGS

1 review for Ottorino Respighi: Complete Piano Music, Volume Two

  1. :

    ‘[…]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

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