Emanuele Arciuli - Piano Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

'Delucchi has done us a great service', noted Fanfare magazine in January 2022 after the of his Czerny album (PCL10204) on Piano Classics. This young Italian pianist continues to go from strength to strength and to broaden his already diverse catalogue of recordings for the tag - spanning Bach, Godowsky and his own music - with this new album of Stravinsky's works for the piano. The music of Stravinsky, like Beethoven, unmistakably bears the imprint of being composed at the piano - think of the pounding chords of The Rite of Spring or for that matter the delicate right-hand traceries in a later ballet such as Orpheus. However, the composer wrote relatively little dedicated to his own instrument. There are concertante works such as the Capriccio, composed as much as anything to give him something to play, to tour with and earn valuable income from in his appearances with orchestras on both sides of the Atlantic. The solo music is more niche, but no less characteristic, every note a Stravinsky note as Elliott Carter remarked. The Cinq doigts (Five Fingers) of 1921 were composed for a recording - probably the first-ever piece of music specifically written for that purpose - though the recording itself was lost until recently. Much of Stravinsky's piano style is influenced by the records of ragtime which were brought back for him from New York around that time, including the rippling pianola textures and cross rhythms of the Sonata from three years later. Nearly all of these pieces belong to the Stravinsky of the 1920s - a figure of coruscating brilliance who could draw all music from the past to himself and make it his own. Counterpoint, hymn and a spirit of relaxed nonchalance all pervade the Serenade of 1925, while the brief Etudes encapsulate the glittering virtuoso tradition of Liszt and his successors within a few minutes. The rarity here is a transcription of the

Emanuele Delucchi (b. 1987) lives and works in Milan. He studied with Canzio Bucciarelli (Genoa), Riccardo Risaliti (Imola) and Davide Cabassi (Bozen), graduating in piano and composition. He gives solo recitals, with orchestra and in chamber music formation in Italy and abroad; he composes and lectures about the history of music. Emanuele Delucchi is one of the most remarkable pianists of his generation. He has the technique and style to master the most difficult pieces with easy, logic and elegance. He made a name with his recordings for Piano Classics of the insanely difficult Chopin Studies by Godowsky, played on a 1906 Steinway D, of which the Gramophone wrote InchIt's palette of warm colors remained intact but gained a more incisive attack, allowing Delucchi's voicing and extraordinary digital facility to be heard at it's best... '. InchDelucchi is in a class of his ownInch, Jed Distler of Classicstoday. Com wrote Inch9/9 every inch a viable contender to the referenceInch. He recently recorded the 24 Preludes and Fugues by Carl Czerny. This new recording presents Delucchi as a transcriber and composer. Of the Three transcriptions of Carlo Gesualdo he says InchGesualdo's music has always fascinated me, for it's modernity and originality in the panorama of late Renaissance music. The transcriptions are very faithful to the original, reducing the doubling to a minimum. The writing of the five voices, which is unmanageable on the keyboard, is achieved by keeping two parameters constant the pitch and the duration of the notes (which means that the overall effect is identical, although the physiognomy of the individual voices is different). Album Tracks 1. Toccata Avanti Le Canzoni (2020) 2. Pur Ti Miro (Claudio Monteverdi) 3. Ricercare III (2018) 4. Three Transcriptions from Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa 5. Ricercare V - Te Lucis Ante (2019) 6.

Carine Correa - Pulse [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/30/2013