IDAGIO | Petrassi: Piano Concerto - Flute Concerto - La follia di Orlando Suite 747313307371

Featuring

Francesco La Vecchia
Mario Ancillotti
Bruno Canino
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma
Goffredo Petrassi

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Petrassi's early works show influences from earlier Italian vocal and instrumental traditions, as well as the architectural economy of Neo-classicism inspired by Stravinsky and Hindemith.

Compositional Technique

Petrassi's Flute Concerto uses an unusual orchestration, omitting high strings, flutes, and oboes, but including cellos, double basses, clarinets, bassoons, horns, trumpets, trombones, and a large percussion section, harp, and guitar.

Performer Biography

Bruno Canino, the pianist on this recording, has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician and was director of the Music Section of the Venice Biennale from 1999 to 2002.

Composer Biography

Goffredo Petrassi, one of the 20th century's most productive composers, combined logical coherence with an openness to new aesthetic principles.

Recording & Production

The Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, established in 2002, is a rare example in Europe of a completely privately funded orchestra.

Composition History

Petrassi spent little of his sixty-year career writing piano music, largely giving up composing for the instrument after 1944.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Petrassi described his creative process as allowing the music itself to suggest ideas once an initial 'colour' or 'atmosphere' is established, leading to a kind of 'autogenesis'.