Tailleferre: Hommage A Rameau / Suite Burlesque / Maderna: Concerto for 2 Pianos / Serenata Per Un Satellite / Donatoni: Cloches Iii

Featuring

Guido Facchin
Aldo Orvieto
Renato Maioli
Tomasso Castiglioni
Antonio Marotta
Carlo Miotti

Gianluca Carollo
Tàmmittam Percussion Ensemble
Germaine Tailleferre
Bruno Maderna
Franco Donatoni

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Album & Artwork

This album explores the encounter between piano and percussion instruments, which were largely outside classical music culture, as a source of much 20th-century music.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Bruno Maderna's Concerto, especially in its later version, intentionally broke from classical form, presenting the essence of his poetics by using sound as an objective rupture of silence.

Composition History

Bruno Maderna's Concerto for two pianos and instruments underwent significant revisions; the version on this CD, published in 1955, is a reworking of two earlier versions from 1947-1948.

Compositional Technique

In her Partita, Germaine Tailleferre incorporates a "neo-harpsichord" style for the piano, and uses percussion to rhythmically enrich and color the clear melodic lines, carefully avoiding metal instruments.

Compositional Technique

Bruno Maderna's Serenata per un satellite (1969) belongs to his "chance" period, written on a single sheet with various interpretative paths for different instruments, allowing for compositional indeterminacy.

Composition History

Germaine Tailleferre's Partita pour deux pianos et quatre percussions, also titled Hommage à Rameau, was written in 1964 and dedicated to George Auric, a fellow member of Les Six.

Composer Biography

Germaine Tailleferre, a French composer, was a member of the Parisian group known as "Les Six," alongside composers like Auric, Honegger, Poulenc, Milhaud, and Durey.