Petrassi: Piano Concerto & Flute Concerto
Bruno Canino (piano), Mario Ancillotti (flute)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia
This fine package enables convenient investigation of attractive works by a 20th-century Italian composer gaining in reputation.
Petrassi: Piano Concerto & Flute Concerto
Bruno Canino (piano), Mario Ancillotti (flute)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia
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This fine package enables convenient investigation of attractive works by a 20th-century Italian composer gaining in reputation.
About
Petrassi’s long creative life was marked by ceaseless absorption of ideas and by constant invention. His Flute Concerto is notable for its boldness of design and the surprise of its unorthodox sound world, where instruments rotate in block form. The Piano Concerto is more overtly virtuosic, even showing some influence from Prokofiev. The orchestral suite drawn from the ballet La follia di Orlando (The Madness of Orlando) is often clothed in Petrassi’s experimental orchestral sonorities. ‘The rehabilitation of Italian twentieth-century music by the Naxos label continues unabated: the latest release is this remarkable collection... that any genuine Petrassian will rush to purchase’. (International Record Review on 8572411)
Contents and tracklist
- Mario Ancillotti
- Rome Symphony Orchestra
- Francesco La Vecchia
- Bruno Canino
- Rome Symphony Orchestra
- Francesco La Vecchia
- Rome Symphony Orchestra
- Francesco La Vecchia
Awards and reviews
April 2014
This fine package enables convenient investigation of attractive works by a 20th-century Italian composer gaining in reputation.
May 2014
The best place to start...is with the most immediately accessible music on this disc, the 1945 Suite from La follia di Orlando...La Vecchia and his Roman players give a committed and idiomatic account, pleasingly detailed and rhythmically incisive, and highly skilled, too, in some of the more bizarre-sounding episodes.
