Sgambati: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 2 / Caporiccio

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Label
Piano Classics
Release Date
October 27, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Giovanni Sgambati
    • PERFORMER
      Gaia Federica Caporiccio
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 27, 2023
    • UPC
      5029365102520
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PCL10252
    • LABEL
      Piano Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Praeludium in F Major

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    2. II. Canzonetta d'Aprile in F Major

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    3. III. Rivelazione in B-Flat Major

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    4. IV. Sull'altalena in G-Flat Major

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    5. V. Preghiera turbata

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    6. VI. Ansietà

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    7. VII. En valsant

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    8. VIII. Dolci confidenze

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    9. IX. Marche

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    10. X. Anima appassionata

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    11. XI. Profonda pena

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    12. XII. Cantico di speranza

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    13. No. 1. Allegro ma non troppo

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    14. No. 2. Moderato

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    15. No. 3. Appassionato e con vita

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    16. I. Romanza in A-Flat Major

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    17. II. Canzonetta in C Minor

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    18. III. Idillio in E-Flat Major

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    19. IV. Marcia: Humoresque

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    20. V. Vecchio Castello in F Minor

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    21. VI. Épanouissement in D-Flat Major

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    22. VII. Combattimento in A-Flat Minor

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    23. VIII. Campane a festa in D-Flat Major

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    24. No. 1. Preludio in A-Flat Minor

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    25. No. 2. Vecchio minuetto in D-Flat Major

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    26. No. 3. Nenia in E-Flat Minor

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    27. No. 4. Toccata in A-Flat Major

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    28. I. Prélude

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    29. II. Valse

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    30. III. Air

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    31. IV. Intermezzo

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    32. V. Étude mélodique

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    33. Valse Brillante in E Major

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    34. Scherzo in E Major

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    35. Preludio e toccata: Toccata

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    36. Romanza in F Major

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    37. Romanza in A Major

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    38. Mestizia in F-Sharp Minor

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    39. Mélodie impromptu

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    40. Boîte à musique in D-Flat Major

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    41. Serenatina in E Major

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    42. Presentimento in A-Flat Major

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    43. Preludio in C Major

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    44. No. 1. Scherzino

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    45. No. 2. Confidenze

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    46. No. 3. Fantasia per il piffero

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    47. No. 4. Serenatina interrotta

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    48. No. 5. Canto di guerra

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio

    49. No. 6. Diavoleria

      Composer: Giovanni Sgambati

      Performer: Gaia Federica Caporiccio


An Italian disciple of Liszt, Giovanni Sgambati (1841-1914) was once chiefly for his once-popular transcription of the Melodie from Gluck’s Orphée ed Euridice. His own music has only begun receiving sustained attention in the last couple of decades, and Gaia Federica Caporiccio’s projected complete survey is only the second such project to reach completion. The first volume of the survey (PCL10216) met with a warm critical welcome. According to Fanfare magazine, ‘Gaia Federica Caporiccio plays with a winsome freshness, offering some finely shaped melodies and some insightful rubato.’ Caporiccio now turns to some of the collections which most betray the influence of Schumann on Sgambati’s style, or at least they share the German composer’s capriciously divided personality.

The eight pieces of Fogli Volanti (Flying Pages) Op.12 begin with a Romanza which could almost have strayed from the pages of Kinderszenen, but then Sgambati reveals his hand, and his Italian origins, in a gently swaying Canzonetta. The simplicity of the following Idyll is likewise Sgambati’s own, and a fine balance between German and Italian influences continues to mark the suite until the concluding festivities of its ‘Campane a festa’. On a miniature scale – the six movements lasting hardly more than a miniature each – the Fantasie Alpestri return to Sgambati’s origins, or at least an idealised, rural version of them. The ghostly presence of Schumann once more surges up between the semiquavers in the opening Prelude of the Quattro pezzi di seguito before a kind of commedia dell’arte spirit takes over in the ‘Vecchio menuetto’. The slow movement of the suite is supplied by ‘Nenia’, taking its name from an old Roman funeral song.

The Mélodies poetiques are cast in a lighter vein, whereas the five-movement Suite Op.21 finds Sgambati at his most Lisztian, with rippling figuration to test out any virtuoso pianist. Gaia Federica Caporiccio’s pianism and dedication is restoring the name of Sgambati to a measure of wider renown; her own booklet essay completes a labour of love which will make essential listening for any piano collector.