Italian Cello Sonatas

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
June 14, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Alfredo Casella, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Francesco Cilea, Giuseppe Martucci, Alfredo Piatti, Mari
    • PERFORMER
      Amadeo Cicchese, Costantino Catena, Jacopo Di Tonno, Domenico Codespoti, Barbara Panzarella, Roberto
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 14, 2024
    • UPC
      5028421972787
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI97278
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      6
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro tranquillo

      Composer: Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

      Ensemble: Quartetto Guadagnini

      Performer: Amedeo Cicchese, Constantino Catena

    2. II. Largo

      Composer: Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

      Ensemble: Quartetto Guadagnini

      Performer: Amedeo Cicchese, Constantino Catena

    3. III. Allegro

      Composer: Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

      Ensemble: Quartetto Guadagnini

      Performer: Amedeo Cicchese, Constantino Catena

    4. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Francesco Cilea

      Performer: Jacopo Di Tonno, Domenico Codispoti

    5. II. Alla romanza

      Composer: Francesco Cilea

      Performer: Jacopo Di Tonno, Domenico Codispoti

    6. III. Allegro animato

      Composer: Francesco Cilea

      Performer: Jacopo Di Tonno, Domenico Codispoti

    7. I. Largo

      Composer: Ildebrando Pizzetti

      Performer: Amedeo Cicchese, Barbara Panzarella

    8. II. Molto concitato e angoscioso

      Composer: Ildebrando Pizzetti

      Performer: Amedeo Cicchese, Barbara Panzarella

    9. III. Stanco e triste: Largo

      Composer: Ildebrando Pizzetti

      Performer: Amedeo Cicchese, Barbara Panzarella

    10. I. Allegro giusto

      Composer: Giuseppe Martucci

      Performer: Roberto Trainini, Massimiliano Ferrati

    11. II. Scherzo: Allegro molto

      Composer: Giuseppe Martucci

      Performer: Roberto Trainini, Massimiliano Ferrati

    12. III. Intermezzo: Andantino flebile

      Composer: Giuseppe Martucci

      Performer: Roberto Trainini, Massimiliano Ferrati

    13. IV. Finale: Allegro

      Composer: Giuseppe Martucci

      Performer: Roberto Trainini, Massimiliano Ferrati

    14. No. 1 in E Minor: Moderato

      Composer: Giuseppe Martucci

      Performer: Roberto Trainini, Massimiliano Ferrati

    15. No. 2 in B-Flat Major: Andante

      Composer: Giuseppe Martucci

      Performer: Roberto Trainini, Massimiliano Ferrati

    16. No. 3 in A Minor: Allegro

      Composer: Giuseppe Martucci

      Performer: Roberto Trainini, Massimiliano Ferrati

    17. No. 1. Andantino con moto

      Composer: Giuseppe Martucci

      Performer: Roberto Trainini, Massimiliano Ferrati

    18. No. 2. Moderato

      Composer: Giuseppe Martucci

      Performer: Roberto Trainini, Massimiliano Ferrati

    19. Melodia (version for cello and piano)

      Composer: Giuseppe Martucci

      Performer: Roberto Trainini, Massimiliano Ferrati

    20. I. Moderato mosso

      Composer: Mario Pilati

      Performer: Luca Signorini, Dario Candela

    21. II. Tema con variazioni

      Composer: Mario Pilati

      Performer: Luca Signorini, Dario Candela

    22. III. Animato

      Composer: Mario Pilati

      Performer: Luca Signorini, Dario Candela

    23. I. Lento (recitativo) - Allegro viva

      Composer: Eliodoro Sollima

      Performer: Gianluca Pirisi, Flavia Salemme

    24. II. Andante molto espressivo

      Composer: Eliodoro Sollima

      Performer: Gianluca Pirisi, Flavia Salemme

    25. III. Perpetuum mobile - Allegro con spirito

      Composer: Eliodoro Sollima

      Performer: Gianluca Pirisi, Flavia Salemme

    26. I. Arioso e sereno

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Amedeo Cicchese, Barbara Panzarella

    27. II. Arietta con variazioni

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Amedeo Cicchese, Barbara Panzarella

    28. III. Vivacemente

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Amedeo Cicchese, Barbara Panzarella

    29. IV. Dolente ma con fierezza

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Amedeo Cicchese, Barbara Panzarella

    30. V. Rustico

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Amedeo Cicchese, Barbara Panzarella

    31. VI. Largo e pomposo

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Amedeo Cicchese, Barbara Panzarella

    32. VII. Energico e ben ritmato

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Amedeo Cicchese, Barbara Panzarella

    33. I. Allegro assai

      Composer: Alfredo Casella

      Performer: Andrea Favalessa, Maria Semeraro

    34. II. Adagio

      Composer: Alfredo Casella

      Performer: Andrea Favalessa, Maria Semeraro

    35. III. Allegro ma non troppo

      Composer: Alfredo Casella

      Performer: Andrea Favalessa, Maria Semeraro

    36. I. Preludio: Largo molto e sostenuto -

      Composer: Alfredo Casella

      Performer: Andrea Favalessa, Maria Semeraro

    37. I. Bourree: Allegro molto vivace e scherzando

      Composer: Alfredo Casella

      Performer: Andrea Favalessa, Maria Semeraro

    38. II. Largo -

      Composer: Alfredo Casella

      Performer: Andrea Favalessa, Maria Semeraro

    39. II. Rondo: Allegro molto vivace, quasi giga

      Composer: Alfredo Casella

      Performer: Andrea Favalessa, Maria Semeraro

    40. Notturno

      Composer: Alfredo Casella

      Performer: Andrea Favalessa, Maria Semeraro

    41. Tarantella

      Composer: Alfredo Casella

      Performer: Andrea Favalessa, Maria Semeraro

    42. I. Allegro

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Lamberto Curtoni, Giovanni Doria Miglietta

    43. II. Andantino

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Lamberto Curtoni, Giovanni Doria Miglietta

    44. III. Presto

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Lamberto Curtoni, Giovanni Doria Miglietta

    45. IV. Agitato vivace

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Lamberto Curtoni, Giovanni Doria Miglietta

    46. I. Lento - Allegro spiritoso

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Lamberto Curtoni, Giovanni Doria Miglietta

    47. II. Adagio lento

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Lamberto Curtoni, Giovanni Doria Miglietta

    48. III. Variazioni del tempo I

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Lamberto Curtoni, Giovanni Doria Miglietta

    49. IV. Presto ma non troppo

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Lamberto Curtoni, Giovanni Doria Miglietta

    50. I. Allegro energico

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Lamberto Curtoni, Giovanni Doria Miglietta

    51. II. Romanza: Lento

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Lamberto Curtoni, Giovanni Doria Miglietta

    52. III. Finale: Allegro ma non troppo

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Lamberto Curtoni, Giovanni Doria Miglietta

    53. I. Allegro assai moderato

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Lamberto Curtoni, Giovanni Doria Miglietta

    54. II. Intermezzo: Vivo ed agitato

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Lamberto Curtoni, Giovanni Doria Miglietta

    55. III. Allegro ma tranquillo

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Lamberto Curtoni, Giovanni Doria Miglietta

    56. I. Introduzione: Largo - Allegro

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Lamberto Curtoni, Giovanni Doria Miglietta

    57. II. Intermezzo: Adagio

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Lamberto Curtoni, Giovanni Doria Miglietta

    58. III. Allegro vivo

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Lamberto Curtoni, Giovanni Doria Miglietta

    59. I. Allegro non troppo

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Lamberto Curtoni, Giovanni Doria Miglietta

    60. II. Andante religioso

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Lamberto Curtoni, Giovanni Doria Miglietta

    61. III. Canone

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Lamberto Curtoni, Giovanni Doria Miglietta

    62. IV. Vivo

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Lamberto Curtoni, Giovanni Doria Miglietta


By the time of the ‘Ottocento’ (19th century), opera was the dominant force in Italian musical culture, with bel canto composers such as Rossini and Donizetti creating a public appetite for opera that eclipsed achievements by Italy’s musical sons in other genres. Some of these composers who focused their energies instead on instrumental music, swimming against the operatic tide, remained in their native land, while others found a home (or were forced to find one) abroad.

Giuseppe Martucci (1856-1909) is one who stayed. A gifted pianist, he bypassed the operatic path and wrote music with a kind of fluent synthesis of Italian lyricism and German, dialectic approach to form that reached an early peak in his Cello Sonata of 1880. Yet Martucci, as a teacher of composition in Bologna and then Naples, urged the teenaged Alfredo Casella (1883-1947) to study abroad.

Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1968) is among the few composers in this set whose entire career centered in Italy, and he wrote a substantial body of instrumental music.

Before the war and eventual exile, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) succeeded in reinventing an essentially Romantic model (of both form and harmony) for his own time with his Cello Sonata Op. 50 of 1928.

From seven years earlier, Ildebrando Pizzetti’s Sonata of 1921 is a more gloomy, even tortured affair. The Cello Sonata of Francesco Cilea (1866-1950), while unmistakably cast as an ‘operatic’ work from its opening solo, features a protagonist scarcely burdened by the existential angst to be found in comparable works from northern Europe.

Like Cilea, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876–1948) is known for his operas but unlike Cilea’s cello sonata, Wolf-Ferrari’s Op. 30 dates from the final three years of his life and belongs to a mature output of instrumental music.

Virtuoso cellists Alfredo Piatti (1822-1901) produced many trifles and showpieces to display his artistry to his adoring public in London. He was most proud of the set of six sonatas included in this set. In 1844 he made his first appearance in the English capital and soon settled there, playing both as a soloist and in one of the first celebrity string quartets.

The Cello Sonata by Mario Pilati (1903-1938) is another product of the fast-moving 1920s, formed in a Romantic tradition but inflected – like the music of Casella, Pizzetti, and Castelnuovo-Tedesco – by contemporary trends in impressionism and futurism.

From the next generation of composers, the Cello Sonata composed in 1948 by Eliodoro Sollim (1926-2000) fluently incorporates the kind of modal harmonies and cross-rhythms adopted by the likes of Bartók and Janáček from the folk traditions of their own cultures.