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    1. 20th-Century Italian Piano Music
    2. 20th-Century Italian Piano Music
    Brilliant Classics

    20th-Century Italian Piano Music

    CD · 20 discs

    $79.99
    Composer
    BUSONI CAETANI EINAUDI RESP
    Artist
    Ammara, Bartoli, Clementi, Carbonara, Van Veen, De Maria, Genot, D?Ambrosio, Miodini, Pompili, Simon
    Released
    Jan 13, 2017
    This set offers a fascinating overview of piano works by Martucci, Cilea, Busoni, Sinigaglia, Caetani, Fano, Respighi, Pizzetti, Casella, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Dallapiccola, Rota, Malipiero, Castiglioni, and Einaudi.

    This release is a substantial anthology of piano music written by Italian composers in the twentieth century. In an era dominated by opera, several Italian composers chose a radically different path, concentrating on purely instrumental music, influenced by widely varying sources such as Wagner, Impressionism, Neo-Classicism and Dodecaphony. Only leading Italian pianists perform on this release, including Sandro Ivo Bartoli, Michaelangelo Carbonara, Pietro de Maria, Alessandra Ammara, and more.

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    REVIEW:

    To sum up, this is a most interesting and highly valuable set, one which presents the whole ambit of twentieth century Italian piano music, from romanticism through neo-classicism and serialism to popular minimalism. Everything is put across to the listener in at least good performances, with most of them excellent. The booklet notes are truncated versions from the original releases and are in many cases essential in getting to know the composers represented. Indeed this set offers the listener a real bargain. At around £2 a disc you can’t go wrong. Grab it whilst you can.

    – MusicWeb International
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  • 20th-Century Italian Piano Music

    20th-Century Italian Piano Music

    Brilliant Classics Jan 2017
    20 discs
    CD
    $79.99
    • Nocturnes for Piano
    Brilliant Classics

    Nocturnes for Piano

    CD · 11 discs

    $29.99
    Composer
    Amy Beach, Claude Debussy, Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, George Enescu, John Field, Edvard Hagerup Grieg
    Artist
    Tyler Hay, Vincenzo Maltempo, Francois Dumont, Bart van Oort, Alan Weiss, Alessandra Ammara, Muza Ru
    Released
    Jan 09, 2026
    The largest collection of piano nocturnes on CD, celebrating the art of the romantic piano song without words. Over a century of repertoire in all modern recordings, plus a new booklet essay exploring the history and context of the nocturne. Composers of the 18th century such as Haydn and Mozart wrote notturnos as serenades to be sung and played at night time, both on an operatic stage and as independent pieces for entertainment. The early 19th century saw a rapid evolution in the technological, the cultural and the musical development of the piano - as an instrument of longer sustaining power and greater volume than before, offering a broader palette of tone-colours, presenting composers with the potential to write quasi-orchestrally for a single instrument, as Baroque composers had done for the organ. At the same time, musical forms were becoming looser, more shaped by extra-musical inspirations in literature, poetry and the natural world. The Irish composer John Field was the first to publish nocturnes for the solo piano as standalone works, rather than as poetic interludes within larger pieces such as suites or sonatas. Having inherited the form from Field, Frederic Chopin then raised the nocturne to new heights of inward expression. As much as the salon became a place for pianistic display of technique, it also became a space for quiet soliloquy through the course of the 19th century, accessible to the rapidly expanding bourgeoisie with access to an instrument at home and to the education required to play it. Thus publishers commissioned nocturnes from both greater and lesser composers to satisfy an ever-growing market. The nocturnes in this box cover all the great names of Romantic-era piano writing, and many lesser-known ones too. Many of the performances are played on instruments of the period, enabling listeners to immerse themselves into a 19th-century world of softer and more gentle colours and expression. This new box also features an essay by Peter Quantrill outlining the history of the nocturne and it's lasting hold upon our affections and imaginations.
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  • Nocturnes for Piano

    Nocturnes for Piano

    Brilliant Classics Jan 2026
    11 discs
    CD
    $29.99
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