Sgambati: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1 / Caporiccio

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Label
Piano Classics
Release Date
April 22, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Giovanni Sgambati
    • PERFORMER
      Gaia Federica Caporiccio
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 22, 2022
    • UPC
      5029365102162
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PCL10216
    • LABEL
      Piano Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Prelude

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    2. Fugue

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    3. No. 1. Tranquillo

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    4. No. 2. Agitato

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    5. Etude Triomphale in A Major

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    6. No. 1. Romance in E Major

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    7. No. 2. A la fontaine in D-Flat Major

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    8. No. 3. Vox populi in F Minor

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    9. No. 4. Do-do in F Major

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    10. No. 5. Ländler in E Major

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    11. No. 6. Gigue in E Major

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    12. Serenata valsee in A-Flat Major

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    13. Nocturne in B Minor, Op. 20, No. 1

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    14. Nocturne in G Major, Op. 20, No. 2

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    15. Nocturne in C Minor, Op. 20, No. 3

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    16. Nocturne in B Major, Op. 3, "Per l'album di Bellini"

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    17. Nocturne in D-Flat Major, Op. 31, No. 5

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    18. Nocturne in E Major, Op. 33, No. 6

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    19. Nocturne in G Major, Op. 20, No. 2

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    20. No. 1. Allegretto

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    21. No. 2. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    22. No. 3. Allegretto grazioso

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    23. No. 1. Animato allegramente

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    24. No. 2. Andantino

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    25. No. 3. Allegro appassionato ma non troppo mosso

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    26. Gavotte in A-Flat Minor, Op. 14

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio


Piano Classics presents the first volume in a major new series which promises to become the most comprehensive recorded survey of a central but now little-known figure in 19th-century Italian music. Born in Rome in 1841, Giovanni Sgambati cut an impressive but relatively familiar figure as a prodigious young virtuoso until, as a 21-year-old keyboard lion in the making, he was introduced to Franz Liszt. The encounter changed Sgambati’s life. Liszt, perhaps the single most influential figure in European musical life in the middle of the 19th century, took the young Sgambati under his wing, and his faith was richly repaid. Still in his 20s, Sgambati conducted the Italian premiere of the Dante Symphony and even the premiere of the first (lengthy) part of the Christus oratorio. There is an irony that the single piece through which his name has travelled worldwide is a piano Melodie, a sensuously achieved transcription of the Dance of the Blessed Spirits from Gluck’s opera Orfeo ed Euridice. Guaranteed to hush a rapturous audience into silence, it became the much-loved encore piece for the late Nelson Freire, among others. Too little of Sgambati’s music for his own instrument is known beyond the Melodie. This neglect is being redressed in style by the Italian pianist Gaia Federica Caporiccio, born in Florence in 1988.

The first volume of a projected complete series of Sgambati’s piano works proceeds in mostly chronological fashion. Thus the curtain is drawn back with a flourish in the Gothic, Bachian arpeggios of the Prelude and Fugue Op.6.