On this album, Bellafronte explores both the concise form of the prelude and the broader structure of the sonata, merging characteristics of both.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Raffaele Bellafronte's music challenges and disrupts modal and tonal harmony through dissonances, achieving a form of classicism without being neoclassical in a linguistic or stylistic sense.
Composer Biography
Raffaele Bellafronte, born in 1961, is the composer of the Piano Sonatas and 12 Preludes featured on this album.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Raffaele Bellafronte's music is described as free, mobile, rich in distant echoes, and tenaciously reflecting today's reality, with a strong communicative character.
Performer Biography
Alessandro Deljavan is the pianist performing on this album, expressing gratitude and pride for being part of the project.
Compositional Technique
Bellafronte's music blends singing qualities, tonal propensities, and paroxysmal ostinatos without falling into minimalism, and features expressive density with harmonic harshness.
Recording & Production
The album was recorded in April 2021 at Teatro Rossetti, Vasto, Italy, using a Steinway & Sons model D piano.
