Piatti: Music for Cello and Piano; 2 Songs

Plano, Roberto;
Noferini, Andrea;
Klisowska, Joanna

94975

Music for delight, demonstration and display by an early-Romantic pioneer of the cello. Born in Bergamo in 1822, Carlo Alfredo Piatti was to the cello what Nicolò Paganini was to the violin: a musician who extended the possibilities of his instrument in performance and who inspired countless composers to do the same in writing for it. His remarkable talent was immediately evident, to the extent that by 1843 he was already travelling throughout Europe on concert tours, accompanied by his father. It was Franz Liszt who described him as ‘a Paganini of the Cello’, presenting him with an Amati instrument as a token of his admiration.

Works:
• Piatti: Air Baskyrs, Op. 8
• Piatti: Capriccio sulla 'Niobe' di Giovanni Pacini, Op. 22
• Piatti: Fantasia sopra alcuni motivi della Gemma di Vergy in D Major
• Piatti: L'Abbandono, Op. 1
• Piatti: La bergamasca, Op. 14
• Piatti: La sera
• Piatti: Notturno, Op. 20
• Piatti: Pioggia d’aprile
• Piatti: Swallow, oh swallow

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

Brilliant Classics

13-11-2019

5028421949758