Piatti: 12 Capricci for Cello Solo / Tarantino

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
January 21, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Alfredo Piatti
    • PERFORMER
      Luciano Tarantino
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 21, 2022
    • UPC
      5028421964713
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96471
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Allegro quasi presto

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Luciano Tarantino

    2. No. 2. Andante religioso

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Luciano Tarantino

    3. No. 3. Moderato

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Luciano Tarantino

    4. No. 4. Allegretto

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Luciano Tarantino

    5. No. 5. Allegro comodo

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Luciano Tarantino

    6. No. 6. Adagio largamente

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Luciano Tarantino

    7. No. 7. Maestoso

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Luciano Tarantino

    8. No. 8. Moderato ma energico

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Luciano Tarantino

    9. No. 9. Allegro

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Luciano Tarantino

    10. No. 10. Allegro deciso

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Luciano Tarantino

    11. No. 11. Adagio - Allegro

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Luciano Tarantino

    12. No. 12. Allegretto capriccioso

      Composer: Alfredo Piatti

      Performer: Luciano Tarantino


Alfredo Carlo Piatti began a precocious and distinguished career as a cellist in his native Bergamo, as well as in Turin and Milan. He left Italy at 21 to seek his fortune and on his travels met Franz Liszt, who gave him an Amati cello, and Felix Mendelssohn, who conducted one of his first concerts in London. In early 1847, having performed across Europe and with considerable experience under his belt, he settled permanently in London. After enjoying an illustrious half-century among the upper echelons of London’s musical elite, he returned to Italy in 1898 and spent his final years living with his daughter and editing his body of compositions. On his death in 1901, he bequeathed the Fondo Piatti-Lochis to the city of Bergamo, a precious collection of manuscript and print editions of his entire oeuvre, containing around 60 instrumental pieces, a similar number of short vocal compositions and around 40 transcriptions and reworkings of music by major composers of the past. It includes the first edition (produced by Piatti himself) and two autograph manuscripts of his 12 Caprices Op.25. Both manuscripts bear the same date: ‘London, 26 June 1865’. The Caprices became Piatti’s best-known compositions, and they have been recorded and performed by cellists all over the world, who find them difficult to master but also undoubtedly an extremely interesting challenge. Within them, Piatti explores the full technical and expressive potential of his instrument. The left hand is forced into possible and seemingly impossible positions, often giving the impression of flying rapidly and lightly over the strings, while the right hand adroitly manages the bow, testing out all the various ways of generating sounds and traversing all pitches and tonal colors.