Illustrazioni - 20th Century Italian Piano Music

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Recorded in Finland, in Järvenpää near Helsinki, this disc is a tribute to five extraordinary figures in Italian music: Gian Francesco Malipiero (18821973), Mario CastelnuovoTedesco (18951968), Luigi Dallapiccola (19041975), Giacinto Scelsi (19051988), and Nino Rota (19111979); five composers whose poetic universes, although very different from one another, are permeated by a common, intense expressiveness: the same trait that runs through the works featured here and that, like a fil rouge, has oriented Sanna Vaarni along his itinerary from 1916, the date of publication of Mario CastelnuovoTedesco’s Raggio verde, to 1964, the year of Nino Rota’s enchanting Preludi.
An itinerary that thus begins in a particular phase of Italian music, marked by great ferment and multiple initiatives aimed mostly at promoting the activity of composers, animated in those same years by a shared intent: to renew their language and draw from tradition to coin a national style. An intent that was in line with the main European trends, sometimes devoted to linguistic research but more generally driven by a burning desire to re-express traditions, folklore or, moreover, the suggestion of the antique at a time when the relationship between the present and the past was at the centre of significant intellectual tensions.