Ensemble Pi - Keep Going: The Music of Elias Tanenbaum - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Sarcasms, Op.17 I. Tempestoso 2. Sarcasms, Op.17 II. Allegro Rubato 3. Sarcasms, Op.17 III. Allegro Precipitato 4. Sarcasms, Op.17 IV. Smanioso 5. Sarcasms, Op.17 V. Precipitosissimo 6. Son I. 1/4NT=112 7. Son II. Adagietto 8. Son III. 1/4NT=112 9. Ten Experimental Pieces in Rhythm and Harmony 10. Son, Op 1 11. Three Pieces, Op.59 I. Impromptu 12. Three Pieces, Op.59 II. Adagio 13. Three Pieces, Op.59 III. Allegro Non Troppo 14. Dans Le Reve Laisse Par la Ballade Des Pendus de Villon 15. Study No.20 16. Piano Vars

This programme, performed by Chiara Banchini and Ensemble 415, gives a glimpse of Mozart's early compositions, written in Salzburg, most of which were intended for performance at social events or in the open air. In pieces such as the Serenata notturna and the Concertone, one perceives a Mozart who was quick to satisfy both the demands of the Salzburg nobility and his own, which led him from adolescence onwards to develop an original language, free of stereotyped formal codes. After the success of the Red, Yellow, Blue, Pink and White collections (a total of sixty reissues) which gave a new lease of life to the pearls of the Baroque catalogues from our house labels, here are fourteen new titles which offer a chance to discover other treasures, whether Baroque or dating from an earlier or later era. Like the most recent series, this sixth instalment opens out onto the Classical repertory (Mozart by Ensemble 415 and Chiara Banchini) and the Renaissance (Févin by Doulce Mémoire and Denis Raisin Dadre); recordings that are an integral part of Alpha's identity and history. Fourteen reissues performed by the leading musicians in the field, most of which received one or more awards on their original . Proper booklets accompany the discs, with notes in three languages (French, English, German). Photographers from all over the world have been selected to illustrate the covers, this time with the guiding thread of the color green, a symbol of nature, fertility... and hope! Album Tracks 1. Serenata Notturna KV239 in D Major 2. Cassation KV63 in G Major 3. Concertone KV190 in C Major

Eliodoro Sollima (1926-2000) was a Sicilian musician raised in the town of Marsala, where the concert hall is dedicated to his memory. From 1954 to 1991 he taught composition at the conservatoire in Palermo, where he was also the institution's director for 16 years. This is the only album dedicated to his music new recordings made by a young contemporary music ensemble, who are joined by the composer's son, Giovanni Sollima, a cellist and composer in his own right who has made several previous albums for Brilliant Classics. Sollima studied piano with Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, and he wrote for his instrument with a thorough grasp of it's range as a Romantic instrument - Italian TV broadcasts preserve some unfussily accomplished performances of Liszt - which courses through his best-known piece, the Toccata of 1951. However, his idiom embraced a Bartokian toughness of rhythm, most vividly demonstrated here by the three movements for piano trio (for which Sollima received compliments from Isaac Stern). In 1968 he wrote a powerful concerto for string orchestra in memory of Bobby Kennedy, and the tortured harmonies of this piece carry over into both the contemporaneous piano trio and the later 'Evoluziona No.5' for violin and piano. However, the album surveys the full range of Sollima's oeuvre, from the brief and touching Aria he composed for a chamber quintet as a 19-year-old, to a compact Cello Sonata written at the age of 22 in 1948. From almost half a century later dates the 'Legend of St Damiano', a single-movement piano quartet that effectively synthesizes the evolution of the composer's music. Luciano Tarantino recorded Giovanni Sollima's own music on a 'Cello Solo Journey' released in 2019 by Brilliant Classics (95964). His own playing can also be enjoyed on a 2014 album of Offenbach's cello duets (94475). Album Tracks 1. Sonata for cello and piano~I. L