Pizzetti: Liriche, Complete Songs for Voice & Piano

Featuring

Alfredo Blessano
Paola Camponovo
Vansìsiem Lied Duo
Ildebrando Pizzetti

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Ildebrando Pizzetti, a composer, critic, and intellectual, believed that a new era for vocal chamber music was beginning in Italy around 1914.

Recording & Production

This album is the first complete recording of Ildebrando Pizzetti's songs for voice and piano, including previously unpublished works.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Pizzetti argued that a musician could create a masterpiece with a short song for voice and piano, just as a poet could with a small ode.

Composer Biography

Pizzetti showed a strong attachment to his homeland, Parma, setting poems by local poets and friends like Mario Silvani, Ildebrando Cocconi, Jacopo Bocchialini, and Alfredo Zerbini.

Composition History

Pizzetti's song I pastori (1908), based on a poem by Gabriele D'Annunzio, is considered one of the first examples of Italian art song and a model for the genre.

Composer Biography

Pizzetti composed songs throughout almost his entire life, from his early work Nuvole in 1899 to his Tre canti d'amore in the mid-1950s.

Composer Biography

Pizzetti's personal interests are reflected in his choice of texts, which include Greek tragedy, popular texts translated by Niccolò Tommaseo and Pio Bondioli, and 'noble' poetry by Sappho.