イタリアの希少ピアノ協奏曲集

ロベルト・プロッセダによって忘れられた中から救い出された、4つのイタリアのピアノ協奏曲。グイド・アルベルト・ファーノによる後期ロマン派の魅力的な作品から、このアルバムのタイトルにもなっているクリスティアン・カッラーラの21世紀の協奏曲に至るまで、ぜひ聴いてほしいレパートリーです。
ユニバーサル・ミュージック/IMS

The piano concerto has never been a major genre in Italian music in the 20th and 21st centuries, and the works on this release by pianist Roberto Prosseda and the London Philharmonic Orchestra certainly live up to the descriptor of "rare." Yet theyre largely enjoyable, and they mostly live up to the claim in the booklet notes that there is an Italian quality to them, even as styles changed fundamentally. The exception to this may be the 1960 Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra by Silvio Omizzolo, which takes a great deal from Prokofiev. However, it is a well-put-together work with an effective motoric finale. The highlight here is the Piccolo Concerto per Muriel Couvreux of Luigi Dallapiccola. This work, begun in 1939, seems at first to display little of the composers later serialist style. It is fully tonal, but give a listen to the six brief movements, which have an atomistic quality that points to the ways Dallapiccola would go. The title War Silence is that of Cristian Carraras concerto of 2015; it is not a programmatic work but reaches considerable emotional depth in its slow movement, "Solitudes." That work and the Omizzolo piece here receive their world-recorded premieres. Attractive, too, is the opening Andante e Allegro con fuoco of Guido Alberto Fano, composed in 1900 and with something of a Puccinian flair. Time will pass quickly on hearing this album, and the performances by Prosseda and the orchestra show command of unfamiliar music. ~ James Manheim