Petrassi: Piano Concerto / Flute Concerto / La follia di Orlando Suite Bruno Canino

• Goffredo Petrassi (1904-2003)
• 1 Flute Concerto 19:31
• Piano Concerto (1936-1939)
• 2 I. Non molto mosso, ma energico 12:10
• 3 II. Arietta con variazioni: Molto adagio e tranquillo 13:03
• 4 III. Rondo: Andantino mosso - Allegro agitato 06:56
• La follia di Orlando – Symphonic Suite from the Ballet (1942-43)
• 5 Introduzione: Allegro sostenuto - Quadro I: Danza di Angelica: Andantino grazioso, con fantasia 05:22
• 6 Quadro II: Angelica e Medoro: Andante sereno 07:16
• 7 Quadro III: Danza di Astolfo: Presto, volante e leggero 03:50
• 8 Quadro I: Danza guerriera: Molto sostenuto 03:23
• Total Runtime 01:11:31

Info for Petrassi: Piano Concerto / Flute Concerto / La follia di Orlando Suite

Petrassi’s long creative life was marked by ceaseless absorption of ideas and by constant invention. His Flute Concerto is notable for its boldness of design and the surprise of its unorthodox sound world, where instruments rotate in block form. The Piano Concerto is more overtly virtuosic, even showing some influence from Prokofiev. The orchestral suite drawn from the ballet La follia di Orlando (The Madness of Orlando) is often clothed in Petrassi’s experimental orchestral sonorities. ‘The rehabilitation of Italian twentieth- century music by the Naxos label continues unabated: the latest release is this remarkable collection... that any genuine Petrassian will rush to purchase’. (International Record Review on 8.572411)

“this fine package enables convenient investigation of attractive works by a 20th-century Italian composer gaining in reputation.” (BBC Music Magazine)

“The best place to start...is with the most immediately accessible music on this disc, the 1945 Suite from La follia di Orlando...La Vecchia and his Roman players give a committed and idiomatic account, pleasingly detailed and rhythmically incisive, and highly skilled, too, in some of the more bizarre-sounding episodes.” (International Record Review)

Mario Ancillotti, flute
Bruno Canino, piano
The Rome Symphony Orchestra
Francesco La Vecchia, conductor

Recorded at the OSR Studios, Rome, 22nd-23th June 2012 (track 1)
and at the Auditorium di Via Conciliazione, Rome, 25th-26th March 2012 (tracks 2-4)
and 11th-12th November 2012 (tracks 5-8)
Engineered and edited by Piero Schiavoni
Produced by Fondazione Arts Academy

Bruno Canino
Born in Naples, Bruno Canino studied piano and composition at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, where he taught solo piano for 24 years. He has performed both as a soloist and a chamber musician in all the great concert venues of Europe, US, Australia, Japan and China. For over forty years he has been regularly performing with Antonio Ballista, his piano Duo partner, and since thirty he is a member of the Trio of Milan. Bruno Canino regularly performs with such eminent musicians as Salvatore Accardo, Lynn Harrell, Viktoria Mullova, Itzhak Perlman, and Uto Ughi, among others.

For many years he has been Artistic Adviser of the Giovine Orchestra Genovese and, later, of the International Music Campus in Latina for the autumn season. At the moment Bruno Canino is the Director of the Venice Biennale Music Department.

Bruno Canino is deeply interested in contemporary music and has collaborated with such distinguished composers as Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, Karl-Heinz Stockhausen, Georg Ligeti, Bruno Maderna, Luigi Nono, Sylvano Bussotti and others, the works of whom he has often premiered.

Bruno Canino''s recent recordings include the Goldberg Variations, the complete piano works by Casella, and lately it has been released the first CD of the complete Debussy piano works.

He holds a master-class of piano and chamber music of the XX century at the Bern Conservatory.

In 1997 Passigli Editions published his book "Vademecum for a chamber pianist".

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