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Petrassi: Concertos for Orchestra Nos. 7-8 & Sonata da camer

Modern Dramatic Virtuosic Dark Energetic
$19.99

Details

Composer
Goffredo Petrassi
Artist
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Aug 08, 2025
Catalog #
8573718
UPC
747313371877

About

In the early 1960s Goffredo Petrassi's idiom was almost indistinguishable from that of the Italian avantgarde. Completed in 1964, the Seventh Concerto evolves with mounting tension and a sense of underlying menace. The Eighth Concerto from 1972 was commissioned and premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. It is a substantial piece of outright virtuosity, with dissonance, trenchant dialogues and a fraught atmosphere. The much earlier Sonata da camera for harpsichord and ten instruments finds Petrassi poised between neo-Classicism and a more modernist direction. This is the third and final volume of Petrassi's complete Concertos for Orchestra on Naxos (Nos. 1-3 are on 8.573702; Nos. 4-6 are on 8.573703).

Tracklist 12 tracks

  1. 1 a. Prologo - 03:00
    Track
    1
    Title
    a. Prologo -
    Duration
    03:00
    Composer
    Goffredo Petrassi
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma
    Conductor
    Francesco La Vecchia
  2. 2 b. Primo - 03:08
    Track
    2
    Title
    b. Primo -
    Duration
    03:08
    Composer
    Goffredo Petrassi
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma
    Conductor
    Francesco La Vecchia
  3. 3 c. Secondo - 02:12
    Track
    3
    Title
    c. Secondo -
    Duration
    02:12
    Composer
    Goffredo Petrassi
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma
    Conductor
    Francesco La Vecchia
  4. 4 d. Terzo - 04:54
    Track
    4
    Title
    d. Terzo -
    Duration
    04:54
    Composer
    Goffredo Petrassi
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma
    Conductor
    Francesco La Vecchia
  5. 5 e. Quarto - 03:09
    Track
    5
    Title
    e. Quarto -
    Duration
    03:09
    Composer
    Goffredo Petrassi
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma
    Conductor
    Francesco La Vecchia
  6. 6 f. Epilogo 04:11
    Track
    6
    Title
    f. Epilogo
    Duration
    04:11
    Composer
    Goffredo Petrassi
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma
    Conductor
    Francesco La Vecchia
  7. 7 I. — 06:44
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. —
    Duration
    06:44
    Composer
    Goffredo Petrassi
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma
    Conductor
    Francesco La Vecchia
  8. 8 II. — 08:00
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. —
    Duration
    08:00
    Composer
    Goffredo Petrassi
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma
    Conductor
    Francesco La Vecchia
  9. 9 III. — 07:07
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. —
    Duration
    07:07
    Composer
    Goffredo Petrassi
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma
    Conductor
    Francesco La Vecchia
  10. 10 I. Mosso e scorrevole 04:18
    Track
    10
    Title
    I. Mosso e scorrevole
    Duration
    04:18
    Composer
    Goffredo Petrassi
    Performer
    Mario Stefano Tonda
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma
    Conductor
    Francesco La Vecchia
  11. 11 II. Adagio 04:58
    Track
    11
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    04:58
    Composer
    Goffredo Petrassi
    Performer
    Mario Stefano Tonda
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma
    Conductor
    Francesco La Vecchia
  12. 12 III. Vivace e grazioso 03:38
    Track
    12
    Title
    III. Vivace e grazioso
    Duration
    03:38
    Composer
    Goffredo Petrassi
    Performer
    Mario Stefano Tonda
    Ensemble
    Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma
    Conductor
    Francesco La Vecchia