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

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
August 8, 2025
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      Goffredo Petrassi
    • PERFORMER
      Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 08, 2025
    • UPC
      747313371877
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8573718
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE

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).