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Malipiero: Chamber Music / Rest Ensemble
Brilliant Classics

Malipiero: Chamber Music / Rest Ensemble

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Details

Composer
MALIPIERO, RICCARDO
Artist
REST ENSEMBLE
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Apr 03, 2020
Catalog #
BRI95971
UPC
5028421959719

About

The Milanese composer Riccardo Malipiero was born in Milan in 1914 and took lessons with his uncle, Gian Francesco Malipiero in the late 30s. Malipiero disowned all that he wrote up until 1938 and saved only a small amount of that written before 1945: the surviving early pieces show the influence of his uncle’s teaching and the neo-classicism of Casella and Stravinsky. However, influenced by Luigi Dallapiccola, he came to embrace a personal, lyrical language of 12-tone composition which ultimately traces its roots back to the music of Berg. The four-movement Violin Sonata from 1956 makes an ideal introduction to Riccardo Malipiero’s music, with a nervous, waltz-like Scherzo and a frozen slow movement leading into the finale’s extensive violin cadenza, beautifully written for the instrument and played here by Rebecca Raimondi with burning conviction as well as ferocious accuracy (she included the sonata within her Master’s recital at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, from which she graduated in 2017). At her graduation recital she was accompanied by Alessandro Viale, and together with the other members of the Rest Ensemble they have given concerts of Malipiero’s music in both the UK and Italy, lending to these studio recordings the ring of intimacy and impassioned authenticity that is rare in recordings of unfamiliar modernist music. The Piano Trio of 1969 sets a tougher challenge to both performers and listeners, more angular and explosive, yet still imbued with a strain of wit and grace that runs through his output.

Tracklist 10 tracks

  1. 1 I. Moderato 05:27
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Moderato
    Duration
    05:27
    Composer
    Riccardo Malipiero
    Performer
    Rebecca Raimondi, Alessandro Viale
  2. 2 II. Molto presto 02:21
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Molto presto
    Duration
    02:21
    Composer
    Riccardo Malipiero
    Performer
    Rebecca Raimondi, Alessandro Viale
  3. 3 III. Molto lento 04:20
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Molto lento
    Duration
    04:20
    Composer
    Riccardo Malipiero
    Performer
    Rebecca Raimondi, Alessandro Viale
  4. 4 IV. Deciso, ma a cadenza 08:51
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Deciso, ma a cadenza
    Duration
    08:51
    Composer
    Riccardo Malipiero
    Performer
    Rebecca Raimondi, Alessandro Viale
  5. 5 Ciaccona di Davide 13:05
    Track
    5
    Title
    Ciaccona di Davide
    Duration
    13:05
    Composer
    Riccardo Malipiero
    Performer
    Daniele Valabrega, Alessandro Viale
  6. 6 Mosaico No. 2 08:34
    Track
    6
    Title
    Mosaico No. 2
    Duration
    08:34
    Composer
    Riccardo Malipiero
    Performer
    Rebecca Raimondi
  7. 7 I. — 05:41
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. —
    Duration
    05:41
    Composer
    Riccardo Malipiero
    Ensemble
    Rest Ensemble
  8. 8 II. — 07:05
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. —
    Duration
    07:05
    Composer
    Riccardo Malipiero
    Ensemble
    Rest Ensemble
  9. 9 III. — 01:45
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. —
    Duration
    01:45
    Composer
    Riccardo Malipiero
    Ensemble
    Rest Ensemble
  10. 10 IV. — 05:35
    Track
    10
    Title
    IV. —
    Duration
    05:35
    Composer
    Riccardo Malipiero
    Ensemble
    Rest Ensemble