Pizzetti, I.: Concerto Dell'Estate / La Festa Delle Panatenee

Featuring

Myron Michailidis
Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra
Ildebrando Pizzetti

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Recording & Production

This recording features the first recording in over 40 years of Ildebrando Pizzetti's Concerto dell'estate.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Pizzetti's music offered a 'refined, noble expressiveness' that countered the 'crudity' of much turn-of-the-century Italian music, particularly the excesses of verismo opera.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Pizzetti's musical philosophy held that all music, even symphonic works without words, must possess 'dramatic life' born of conflict, or else it is merely 'juggling with sound and noise'.

Composition History

Concerto dell'estate (Summer Concerto) was considered by Pizzetti to be his most important work, and he described it as his 'pastoral symphony', alluding to Beethoven's famous work.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Pizzetti believed that the highest form of musical expression is dramatic, stating that no art is valuable unless it has the qualities of a drama.

Performer Biography

The Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1959, has performed with many distinguished artists including Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, and Mstislav Rostropovich.

Composer Biography

Ildebrando Pizzetti, the composer, was considered one of the leading Italian composers of his generation, alongside Gian Francesco Malipiero and Alfredo Casella.