Composer: Ildebrando Pizzetti
Performer: Margherita Bassani
Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI
Conductor: Damian Iorio
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Release: 2017
Size: 574 MB
Recovery: +3%
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Symphony in A Major
01. I. Andante, non troppo sostenuto ma teso
02. II. Andante tranquillo
03. III. Rapido
04. IV. Andante faticoso e pesante – Movimento di marcia molto sostenuto
Harp Concerto in E-Flat Major
05. I. Andante mosso, arioso
06. II. Andante piuttosto largo
07. III. Allegro moderato
Recorded: 23-26 September 2015
Recording Venue: Auditorium Rai Arturo Toscanini, Turin, Italy
Composed in 1940, Pizzetti’s Symphony in A was one of the works, which included Benjamin Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem, commissioned to celebrate the 2600th anniversary of the accession of the legendary first Emperor of Japan. This powerful and unsettling work, Pizzetti’s only Symphony, is notable for its ominous mood, its compositional progress between February and June 1940 mirroring the unfolding European conflict and Italy’s own declaration of war. Written twenty years later for Italy’s leading harpist Clelia Gatti Aldrovandi, the sunny Harp Concerto is, by contrast, both lyrical and vivacious