Starter Packs

Complete your collection with these curated titles, grouped at a special discount.

Shop Now
Santoliquido: Chamber Music
Brilliant Classics

Santoliquido: Chamber Music

$14.99

Details

Composer
Ornella Puliti Santoliquido
Artist
Mauro Tortorelli, Federica Del Bagno, Angela Meluso
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Sep 23, 2022
Catalog #
BRI96589
UPC
5028421965895

About

Chamber music aficionados of older generations will remember LPs of Brahms and Beethoven as performed by the Trio Santoliquido. The ensemble took its name from its pianist Ornella Puliti Santoliquido, who herself took the name when she married the composer Francesco Santoliquido. For several decades in the middle of the last century, husband and wife formed something of a power couple on the classical-music scene – especially in the field of chamber music – in Rome. However, Francesco Santoliquido’s own music has fallen into almost complete obscurity, a state which this attractive new recording by the established partnership of the Gran Duo Italiano should help to improve. Born in Naples in 1883 and trained in Rome, Santoliquido never espoused even the mild brand of modernism or the neoclassicism of contemporaries such as Casella, Malipiero and Pizzetti, and he issued diatribes against the evils and origins of modernism in the fascist press. Beyond the precepts of a classic-romantic style, then, the individual flavor of Santoliquido’s music owes something to his residence in Tunis during the 1910s, and subsequent support of a culture for classical music in north Africa, including the foundation of a concert society and music school in Tunis. Thus the piano music featured here includes a pair of Acqueforti Tunisine, as well as orientally scented nocturnes which were written for his wife to play. The album concludes with Ex Humo ad Sidera, a piece that describes mankind’s terrible struggle in rising from the dark, savage state towards Light. The main work here is a traditionally structured Violin Sonata in A minor with a turbulent opening movement, a languid and dreamy Andante and then a stormy finale. It is revived here with tremendous conviction by Mauro Tortorelli and Angela Meluso.

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro deciso e impetuoso 06:43
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro deciso e impetuoso
    Duration
    06:43
    Composer
    Francesco Santoliquido
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  2. 2 II. Andante piuttosto lento 03:56
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andante piuttosto lento
    Duration
    03:56
    Composer
    Francesco Santoliquido
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  3. 3 III. Vivo e tempestoso 06:48
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Vivo e tempestoso
    Duration
    06:48
    Composer
    Francesco Santoliquido
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  4. 4 Chiarità lunare 05:09
    Track
    4
    Title
    Chiarità lunare
    Duration
    05:09
    Composer
    Francesco Santoliquido
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  5. 5 Rêverie 02:15
    Track
    5
    Title
    Rêverie
    Duration
    02:15
    Composer
    Francesco Santoliquido
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  6. 6 Trio fantasia, "La favola di Helga" 12:37
    Track
    6
    Title
    Trio fantasia, "La favola di Helga"
    Duration
    12:37
    Composer
    Francesco Santoliquido
    Performer
    Federica del Bagno
    Ensemble
    Gran Duo Italiano
  7. 7 Aria antica 03:29
    Track
    7
    Title
    Aria antica
    Duration
    03:29
    Composer
    Francesco Santoliquido
    Performer
    Federica del Bagno, Angela Meluso
  8. 8 No. 1. La notte sahariana 02:47
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 1. La notte sahariana
    Duration
    02:47
    Composer
    Francesco Santoliquido
    Performer
    Angela Meluso
  9. 9 No. 2. La danzatrice araba 02:32
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 2. La danzatrice araba
    Duration
    02:32
    Composer
    Francesco Santoliquido
    Performer
    Angela Meluso
  10. 10 Notturno 03:03
    Track
    10
    Title
    Notturno
    Duration
    03:03
    Composer
    Francesco Santoliquido
    Performer
    Angela Meluso
  11. 11 Piccola ballata 04:11
    Track
    11
    Title
    Piccola ballata
    Duration
    04:11
    Composer
    Francesco Santoliquido
    Performer
    Angela Meluso
  12. 12 Giardini notturni 05:55
    Track
    12
    Title
    Giardini notturni
    Duration
    05:55
    Composer
    Francesco Santoliquido
    Performer
    Angela Meluso
  13. 13 Ex humo ad sidera 05:55
    Track
    13
    Title
    Ex humo ad sidera
    Duration
    05:55
    Composer
    Francesco Santoliquido
    Performer
    Angela Meluso