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Composer: PIZZETTI, Ildebrando ((1880-1968)) |
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Composer, born in Parma in 1880 and died in Rome in 1968. He was G. Tebaldini's student at the conservatory of Parma, he made himself known through the stage music for "La Nave" of D'Annunzio, performed at Rome in 1908. In the same year he took up the teaching post of harmony and counterpoint (the art or practice of combining melodies according to fixed rules) of music at the conservatory in Florence, which he then directed from 1917 to 1923.
After having performed "La Pisanella", the stage music for D'Annunzio's drama of the same name the " Requiem Mass" and other important compositions, he became director of the conservatory of Milan in 1924, which he then left in 1936 for the the position of perfectioning compositions at the Accademy of Saint Cecilia in Rome. To his intense creative work, the musician added right from his youth, the job of critic and music historian and that of director of this own theatrical and symphonic tours even in North America.
In 1939 he was given the title of 'Italian Academic' and in 1949 he became the president of the national Academy of Saint Cecilia. Being gifted with an essentially drammatical nature, he succeeded right from the beginning of his creative activity in aesthetically renewing melodrama, working on a drammatical style based on the idea of an absolute balance between words and music, this derives from his deep synthesis of traditional Italian music, and independent from the forms of the tardoromantic and veristic theatre. This conception of drama was most successfully performed in "Assassinio nella cattedrale" (1958) Eliot's tragedy. Other significant works were "Fedra" (1915), using D'Annunzio's text), "Debora e Jaele" (1922) using his own text. In the area of Pizzetti's vast symphonic production "Concerto dell'estate" (1928), "I canti della stagione alta" (1930) are to be mentioned.
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ID: GD275
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano and Cello
The famous Italian composer, conductor, critic and pedagogue Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1968) is almost unknown in Bulgaria. He worked as a conductor in Parma, Florence and was Director of the Milan Conservatoire and teacher in composition at the St. Cecilia Academy in Rome. He was also a music critic for leading newspapers and wrote essays for various specialised books and magazines. Parallel to that he wrote a number of works in different genres - operas, ballets, oratorios, symphonies, a wide range of chamber music, choral music and film music. The compositions included in the present programme of Seeli Toivio and Ivo Varbanov were written during the 1920s. This release is the world premiere of both these works.
Seeli Toivio was born in Finland. She studied in Helsinki, Budapest and London with well-known teachers. She has taken part in masterclasses with Gary Hoffmann, William Pleeth, Steven Isserlis, Steven Doane, Zara Nelsova, and Ralph Kirshbaum. She won 1st prize in BBC Radio 2 Young Musician of the Year 1997, and 1st place with a special prize in duo with Ivo Varbanov at the 25th International Chamber Music Competition - Finale Ligure (Italy), in 1998. During 2003-2004 she was invited to perform in Russia, Japan, Germany, Estonia, and Finland.
Ivo Varbanov was born in Bulgaria and studied in Milan and London with Ylonka Deckers, Sulamita Aronowsky, Frank Wibaut and Dennis Lee. He has participated in masterclasses with Lev Naumov, Alexander Lonquich, Barry Douglas, Jean-Bernard Pommier, and Peter Katin. He was winner of 1st place, and a special prize in cello/piano duo with the cellist Seeli Toivio at the 25th International Chamber Music Competition Finale Ligure (Italy) in 1998. Mr. Varbanov has travelled widely, playing concertos and giving recitals and chamber music concerts in Bulgaria, Italy, the UK, France, Ireland, Germany, Holland, Poland, Russia, and the USA. His first CD of piano works by Mussorgsky was also released by Gega New (GD 117). |
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ID: STR33873
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
- Biografie
- Note storico - critiche
- Analisi musicali
- Partiture
- Ascolto con partitura
Alfredo Casella: Sonata a tre per violino, violoncello e pianoforte
Ildebrando Pizzetti: Canti della stagione alta (Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra)
Elena Barbara Giuranna: Canto arabo per canto e pianoforte
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Sonata (Omaggio a Boccherini) per chitarra
Gian Francesco Malipiero: Cantari alla madrigalesca. III Quartetto per archi
Mario Pilati: Echi di Napoli. Otto canzoni su vecchi testi popolari per canto e pianoforte
Giovanni Salviucci: Serenata per nove strumenti
Riccardo Zandonai: Tre liriche per canto e pianoforte: L‘Amore; Casa lontana; Terra di sogni
Time: 1:13:57 |
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