Pizzetti: Symphony in A & Harp Concerto / Iorio, Bassani, RAI National Symphony Orchestra

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
May 12, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      PIZZETTI, ILDEBRANDO
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale Della Rai
    • PERFORMER
      Bassani, Iorio
    Product Details ⌄
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Andante, non troppo sostenuto ma teso -

      Composer: Ildebrando Pizzetti

      Ensemble: Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino

      Conductor: Damian Iorio

    2. II. Andante tranquillo

      Composer: Ildebrando Pizzetti

      Ensemble: Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino

      Conductor: Damian Iorio

    3. III. Rapido

      Composer: Ildebrando Pizzetti

      Ensemble: Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino

      Conductor: Damian Iorio

    4. IV. Andante faticoso e pesante - Movimento di marcia molto sostenuto

      Composer: Ildebrando Pizzetti

      Ensemble: Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino

      Conductor: Damian Iorio

    5. I. Andante mosso, arioso

      Composer: Ildebrando Pizzetti

      Ensemble: Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino

      Performer: Margherita Bassani

      Conductor: Damian Iorio

    6. II. Andante piuttosto largo

      Composer: Ildebrando Pizzetti

      Ensemble: Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino

      Performer: Margherita Bassani

      Conductor: Damian Iorio

    7. III. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Ildebrando Pizzetti

      Ensemble: Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino

      Performer: Margherita Bassani

      Conductor: Damian Iorio


Composed in 1940, Pizzetti's Symphony in A was one of the works, which included Benjamin Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem, commissioned to celebrate the 2600th anniversary of the accession of the legendary first Emperor of Japan. This powerful and unsettling work, Pizzetti's only Symphony, is notable for its ominous mood, its compositional progress between February and June 1940 mirroring the unfolding European conflict and Italy's own declaration of war. Written twenty years later for Italy's leading harpist Clelia Gatti Aldrovandi, the sunny Harp Concerto is, by contrast, both lyrical and vivacious.