Pizzetti: Piano Works (Complete)

Featuring

Marco Vincenzi
Ildebrando Pizzetti

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Critical Reception

Ildebrando Pizzetti, an Italian composer of the "generation of the 80s," is today perhaps the most neglected, with his operas, symphonic, and chamber works having virtually disappeared from concert programs.

Compositional Technique

In the Sonata 1942, Pizzetti rejected the percussive piano writing of Prokofiev and the neoclassical style of Stravinsky to create a pianism that is almost choral.

Compositional Technique

Pizzetti's Canti di ricordanza (1943) uses the theme from his opera Fra Gherardo and features prolonged sound halos and frequent harmonic overlaps, typical of his orchestral scores, created by the explicitly marked use of the pedal.

Compositional Technique

Pizzetti's Sonata 1942 is a unique example of how Gregorian chant and ancient Italian polyphony could be revived in a 20th-century instrumental form.

Interpretation

This album proposes a backward listening path, starting with Pizzetti's mature work Canti di ricordanza (1943) and ending with the early lyric Sogno (1900), to introduce listeners to his most characteristic style first.

Performer Biography

Marco Vincenzi, the pianist on this recording, won the International Competitions of Stresa and the Sommerakademie of Salzburg's Mozarteum.

Composer Biography

Pizzetti was closely connected with intellectuals like D'Annunzio, Papini, Ungaretti, and Rolland, and co-founded "Dissonanza," the first periodical for Italian unpublished compositions.