Ennio Morricone: Piano Music Roberto Prosseda

• Ennio Morricone (1928 - 2020)
• 1 Morricone: La Leggenda del Pianista sull' Oceano 02:09
• 2 Morricone: Invenzione 02:55
• 3 Morricone: Indagine Su Un Cittadino Al Di Sopra Di Ogni Sospetto 02:59
• 4 Morricone: Canone 01:04
• 5 Morricone: Le due stagioni della vita 02:35
• 6 Morricone: Ricercare 04:05
• Andrea Morricone (b. 1964):
• 7 A. Morricone: Nuovo Cinema Paradiso 02:30
• Ennio Morricone:
• 8 Morricone: 4 Studi: Primo Studio 04:28
• 9 Morricone: Cane Bianco 03:10
• 10 Morricone: 4 Studi: Secondo Studio 03:20
• 11 Morricone: Il Potere Degli Angeli 03:46
• 12 Morricone: 4 Studi: Terzo Studio 04:20
• 13 Morricone: Metti Una Sera A Cena 04:16
• 14 Morricone: 4 Studi: Quarto Studio 03:50
• 15 Morricone: Il Deserto Dei Tartari 03:20
• 16 Morricone: Rag In Frantumi 05:08
• 17 Morricone: Quinto Studio "Catalogo" 10:45
• 18 Morricone: Gott Mit Uns 01:50
• 19 Morricone: Quarto Studio Bis 03:56
• Total Runtime 01:10:26

Info for Ennio Morricone: Piano Music

His Decca albums dedicated to Felix Mendelssohn, including the “Piano Concerto No. 3” with the Gewandhaus Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly, has won much acclaim in the press, including the CHOC from ‘’Le Monde de la Musique Classique’’, the Diapason d'Or and Chamber Music CD of the Month in the UK's Classic FM magazine. In 2010, Deutsche Grammophon selected twelve recordings by Prosseda to add to the box set, "Classic Gold". In 2014, Prosseda completed his 10-year project to record all of Mendelssohn's piano works for Decca in 9 CDs.

Roberto Prosseda has performed regularly with some of the world's most important orchestras including: the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Moscow State Philharmonic, the Accademia Santa Cecilia, the Filarmonica della Scala, the Bruxelles Philharmonic, the Residentie Orkest, the Netherlands Symphony, the Berliner Symphoniker, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Calgary Philharmonic, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the Leipzig Gewandhaus. He has performed under the baton of: David Afkham, Marc Albrecht, Christian Arming, Harry Bickett, Oleg Caetani, Riccardo Chailly, Pietari Inkinen, Yannik Nezeit-Seguin, George Pehlivanian, Dennis Russel-Davies, Tugan Sokhiev, Jan Willem de Vriend and Jurai Valcuha.

Other than Mendelssohn, whose piano music, Roberto is considered a leading interpreter of today, Prosseda's interpretations of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Chopin have been particularly praised, and these composers have in fact featured in Prosseda's recent Decca recordings. In 2015, Prosseda started a complete recording of Mozart's Piano Sonatas with a modern piano tuned with unequal temperament. An active proponent of Italian music, Prosseda has also recorded the complete piano works of Petrassi and Dallapiccola.

In September 2011, Prosseda made his debut on the pedal piano, performing the “Concerto for Pedal Piano” by Gounod in the world premiere version for the modern instrument. Concerts are planned in the coming seasons on this instrument, rediscovering the original compositions by Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt and Charles Valentin Alkan.

Several composers, including Ennio Morricone, have already written new pieces for pedal piano for Roberto Prosseda, and a recording of Gounod's four pieces for pedal piano and orchestra with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana conducted by Howard Shelley, was released on the Hyperion label in Fall 2013. Roberto Prosseda is also very active in musical divulgation. He wrote the book "Il Pianoforte" for Curci Editori (2013), and made three documentaries dedicated to Mendelssohn, Chopin and Liszt (Euroarts).

Roberto Prosseda, piano

Roberto Prosseda
born in Latina, Lazio, in 1975, is one of the most active and versatile Italian musicians on the current international scene. He gained international fame following his recordings of the complete Mendelssohn piano music (Decca, 2005-14), published in a box set in 2017.

Over the past twenty years Roberto has performed with some of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors. With the Gewandhausorchester and Riccardo Chailly, he recorded Mendelssohn’s then-unpublished E minor piano concerto. In Italy he is a regular guest at the major concert venues, including the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Teatro alla Scala, Unione Musicale in Turin, Teatro La Fenice, Accademia Chigiana (Siena) and Teatro Comunale (Bologna).

Roberto is particularly acclaimed for his interpretations of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Chopin. His six albums of Mozart piano sonatas for Decca have received considerable international acclaim. In 2022 Roberto completed a project to record the complete Mozart piano works. 2025 saw the release on Hyperion of War Silence, a collection of rare Italian piano concertos by Guido Alberto Fano, Luigi Dallapiccola, Silvio Omizzolo and Cristian Carrara, described in Gramophone magazine as ‘an absorbing listen’.

Since 2011 Roberto has also played the pedal piano in public, having re-discovered and presented in modern premieres various pieces by Alkan and Gounod’s Concerto for pedal piano and orchestra with Parma’s Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini. He has performed the latter also with the Berliner Symphoniker, Staatskapelle Weimar, Lahti Symphony and Netherlands Symphony orchestras, and for Hyperion recorded Gounod’s four pieces for pedal piano and orchestra with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and Howard Shelley. Roberto has performed on the piano pedal in over 100 concerts, contributing to the revitalization of the instrument and its repertoire.

Roberto Prosseda is equally active as a music writer and author of radio and TV projects, as well as a creator of innovative musical programmes of international scope. He conceived three television documentaries, about Mendelssohn, Chopin and Liszt, directed by Angelo Bozzolini, produced by RAI and globally distributed by EuroArts. His book Il Pianoforte, a listening guide to piano repertoire, was published by Edizioni Curci in 2013.

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