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Bellafronte: Piano Sonatas & 12 Preludes / Deljavan
Brilliant Classics

Bellafronte: Piano Sonatas & 12 Preludes / Deljavan

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Details

Composer
Raffaele Bellafronte
Artist
Alessandro Deljavan
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Oct 28, 2022
Catalog #
BRI96414
UPC
5028421964140

About

Born in 1961, the Italian composer Raffaelle Bellafronte has produced a wide-ranging body of work in a modern tonal idiom. Previous albums of concertos, guitar music and chamber works paint a portrait of a lively mind and a personal voice embracing large dramatic gestures and lyric reflection, each as quintessentially ‘Italian’ in their expression as the other. The set of 12 Preludes opens with a magnificently imposing evocation of stillness, colored by the kind of bittersweet harmonies to be found in Bartok and the sense of musical space associated with Messiaen, building a surprisingly complete soundworld within the brief space of three minutes. The remaining preludes are no less ingenious in their economy of mood and gesture. Melancholy and frenzy alternate; glittering and asymmetrical rhythms stand in stark opposition to slow ostinato figurations; dense contrapuntal writing is cast against terse homophony.

Bellafronte trained as a pianist himself, and he composes for the full spectrum of the instrument’s heroic and sensual possibilities. There is a satisfying crunch to the harmonies and immediately appreciable breadth of vision to the opening paragraphs of the Sonata Prima Désaccord (2006),where contrapuntal and propulsive ostinato writing combine to pull the listener through a compelling narrative which feels longer than its 12-minute duration. From three years later, the Second Sonata experiments with a Haydnesque binary form of two quick movements – a nervous, lopsided march followed by a frustrated would-be fugue with a brutal and macabre conclusion. The Third Sonata (2014) is the most substantial piece here in both duration and ambition, launched with a momentum worthy of Bartók or Alkan. The quick-slow-quick form is superficially conventional, but it encloses a wealth of surprising excursions which challenge tonal stability and once more pitch the listener into a pianistic tumult.

Tracklist 20 tracks

  1. 1 Prelude No. 1 02:17
    Track
    1
    Title
    Prelude No. 1
    Duration
    02:17
    Composer
    Raffaele Bellafronte
    Performer
    Alessandro Deljavan
  2. 2 Prelude No. 2 02:50
    Track
    2
    Title
    Prelude No. 2
    Duration
    02:50
    Composer
    Raffaele Bellafronte
    Performer
    Alessandro Deljavan
  3. 3 Prelude No. 3 01:13
    Track
    3
    Title
    Prelude No. 3
    Duration
    01:13
    Composer
    Raffaele Bellafronte
    Performer
    Alessandro Deljavan
  4. 4 Prelude No. 4 02:46
    Track
    4
    Title
    Prelude No. 4
    Duration
    02:46
    Composer
    Raffaele Bellafronte
    Performer
    Alessandro Deljavan
  5. 5 Prelude No. 5 02:33
    Track
    5
    Title
    Prelude No. 5
    Duration
    02:33
    Composer
    Raffaele Bellafronte
    Performer
    Alessandro Deljavan
  6. 6 Prelude No. 6 02:11
    Track
    6
    Title
    Prelude No. 6
    Duration
    02:11
    Composer
    Raffaele Bellafronte
    Performer
    Alessandro Deljavan
  7. 7 Prelude No. 7 01:39
    Track
    7
    Title
    Prelude No. 7
    Duration
    01:39
    Composer
    Raffaele Bellafronte
    Performer
    Alessandro Deljavan
  8. 8 Prelude No. 8 02:02
    Track
    8
    Title
    Prelude No. 8
    Duration
    02:02
    Composer
    Raffaele Bellafronte
    Performer
    Alessandro Deljavan
  9. 9 Prelude No. 9 02:22
    Track
    9
    Title
    Prelude No. 9
    Duration
    02:22
    Composer
    Raffaele Bellafronte
    Performer
    Alessandro Deljavan
  10. 10 Prelude No. 10 01:41
    Track
    10
    Title
    Prelude No. 10
    Duration
    01:41
    Composer
    Raffaele Bellafronte
    Performer
    Alessandro Deljavan
  11. 11 Prelude No. 11 03:23
    Track
    11
    Title
    Prelude No. 11
    Duration
    03:23
    Composer
    Raffaele Bellafronte
    Performer
    Alessandro Deljavan
  12. 12 Prelude No. 12 03:39
    Track
    12
    Title
    Prelude No. 12
    Duration
    03:39
    Composer
    Raffaele Bellafronte
    Performer
    Alessandro Deljavan
  13. 13 I. Vivo 05:12
    Track
    13
    Title
    I. Vivo
    Duration
    05:12
    Composer
    Raffaele Bellafronte
    Performer
    Alessandro Deljavan
  14. 14 II. Tranquillo 03:23
    Track
    14
    Title
    II. Tranquillo
    Duration
    03:23
    Composer
    Raffaele Bellafronte
    Performer
    Alessandro Deljavan
  15. 15 III. Nervoso 03:22
    Track
    15
    Title
    III. Nervoso
    Duration
    03:22
    Composer
    Raffaele Bellafronte
    Performer
    Alessandro Deljavan
  16. 16 I. Tempo primo 03:20
    Track
    16
    Title
    I. Tempo primo
    Duration
    03:20
    Composer
    Raffaele Bellafronte
    Performer
    Alessandro Deljavan
  17. 17 II. Tempo secondo 03:35
    Track
    17
    Title
    II. Tempo secondo
    Duration
    03:35
    Composer
    Raffaele Bellafronte
    Performer
    Alessandro Deljavan
  18. 18 I. Allegro con fuoco 06:49
    Track
    18
    Title
    I. Allegro con fuoco
    Duration
    06:49
    Composer
    Raffaele Bellafronte
    Performer
    Alessandro Deljavan
  19. 19 II. Sospeso 05:04
    Track
    19
    Title
    II. Sospeso
    Duration
    05:04
    Composer
    Raffaele Bellafronte
    Performer
    Alessandro Deljavan
  20. 20 III. Energico e sinuoso 07:33
    Track
    20
    Title
    III. Energico e sinuoso
    Duration
    07:33
    Composer
    Raffaele Bellafronte
    Performer
    Alessandro Deljavan