Ponchielli: Piano Music / Ester Poli
Details
- Composer
- Amilcare Ponchielli
- Artist
- Ester Fusar Poli
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Brilliant Classics
- Released
- Aug 25, 2023
- Catalog #
- BRI96969
- UPC
- 5028421969695
About
Charming salon miniatures and a grand funeral march by the verismo composer of La Gioconda.
Most of the pieces issued here were published in the 1870s and 1880s, and some of them are far more substantial than mere album-leaves. Yet they are hardly known at all; Riccardo Muti recorded an orchestration of the sombre and touching Elegia funebre from 1881, but Ester Fusar Poli’s new recording is the only available version of the piano original. Even more imposing in scale is the 16-minute Funeral March which Ponchielli wrote late in 1872 to honor the passing of the publisher Francesco Lucca. However, no Ponchielli album would be complete without a version of the ‘Dance of the Hours’ immortalized by Walt Disney’s hippos in Fantasia.
Ester Fusar Poli presents a beguiling sequence of elegies, nocturnes, polkas and tone-poems, demonstrating the composer’s expressive range and deft piano writing. An extensive essay by Gabriele Galleggiante Crisafulli considers Ponchielli’s piano output in the context of his career as a whole, making this album an important contribution to our understanding of a figure who was much more than a ‘one-hit wonder’.
Tracklist 14 tracks
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1 La Gioconda, Act III: Danza delle ore (arr. for piano) 07:26
- Track
- 1
- Title
- La Gioconda, Act III: Danza delle ore (arr. for piano)
- Duration
- 07:26
- Composer
- Amilcare Ponchielli
- Performer
- Ester Poli
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2 Il primo affetto, Op. 94 04:13
- Track
- 2
- Title
- Il primo affetto, Op. 94
- Duration
- 04:13
- Composer
- Amilcare Ponchielli
- Performer
- Ester Poli
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3 Amicizia in B-flat Major, Op. 95 04:25
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Amicizia in B-flat Major, Op. 95
- Duration
- 04:25
- Composer
- Amilcare Ponchielli
- Performer
- Ester Poli
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4 T'amerò sempre in D-Flat Major, Op. 87 05:20
- Track
- 4
- Title
- T'amerò sempre in D-Flat Major, Op. 87
- Duration
- 05:20
- Composer
- Amilcare Ponchielli
- Performer
- Ester Poli
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5 Tutti ebbri in D Major, Op. 90 02:23
- Track
- 5
- Title
- Tutti ebbri in D Major, Op. 90
- Duration
- 02:23
- Composer
- Amilcare Ponchielli
- Performer
- Ester Poli
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6 Elegia, Add 9 04:43
- Track
- 6
- Title
- Elegia, Add 9
- Duration
- 04:43
- Composer
- Amilcare Ponchielli
- Performer
- Ester Poli
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7 Improvviso in A Major 01:15
- Track
- 7
- Title
- Improvviso in A Major
- Duration
- 01:15
- Composer
- Amilcare Ponchielli
- Performer
- Ester Poli
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8 Notturno in A-Flat Major, Op. 93 03:38
- Track
- 8
- Title
- Notturno in A-Flat Major, Op. 93
- Duration
- 03:38
- Composer
- Amilcare Ponchielli
- Performer
- Ester Poli
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9 Gavotte poudrée in F Major, Op. 91 03:33
- Track
- 9
- Title
- Gavotte poudrée in F Major, Op. 91
- Duration
- 03:33
- Composer
- Amilcare Ponchielli
- Performer
- Ester Poli
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10 Elegia, Op. 92 (arr. for piano) 03:41
- Track
- 10
- Title
- Elegia, Op. 92 (arr. for piano)
- Duration
- 03:41
- Composer
- Amilcare Ponchielli
- Performer
- Ester Poli
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11 Saltellina-polka in E-Flat Major, Op. 98 03:42
- Track
- 11
- Title
- Saltellina-polka in E-Flat Major, Op. 98
- Duration
- 03:42
- Composer
- Amilcare Ponchielli
- Performer
- Ester Poli
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12 Elegia funebre in onore di Felice Frasi in B-Flat Minor, Op. 89 08:23
- Track
- 12
- Title
- Elegia funebre in onore di Felice Frasi in B-Flat Minor, Op. 89
- Duration
- 08:23
- Composer
- Amilcare Ponchielli
- Performer
- Ester Poli
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13 La staffetta di Gambolo, Op. 88 04:17
- Track
- 13
- Title
- La staffetta di Gambolo, Op. 88
- Duration
- 04:17
- Composer
- Amilcare Ponchielli
- Performer
- Ester Poli
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14 Marcia funebre per i funerali diFrancesco Lucca in G Minor, Op. 112 16:23
- Track
- 14
- Title
- Marcia funebre per i funerali diFrancesco Lucca in G Minor, Op. 112
- Duration
- 16:23
- Composer
- Amilcare Ponchielli
- Performer
- Ester Poli