G.F. Malipiero - Symphonies Nos 5 6 8 & 11 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Philip Glass' Academy Award-nominated music for the 2002 Stephen Daldry film, The Hours, is one of his finest scores, generating a mood of gentle melancholy and emotional depth. Anton Batagov has long been a faithful champion of Glass' piano music and here he offers, on the composer's own tag, the piano version of the score. It's beautifully controlled and, at times, overwhelming in it's ability to touch the heart. InchDistant Figure (Passcaglia for Solo Piano)Inch is a piece for piano that started life as a miniature and has been developed. Like The Hours, it's delicate, evocative, and exquisitely controlled.

Gian Francesco Malipiero may be considered the most original and inventive of the generation of Italian composers born around 1880. This second Naxos issue of the cycle of 11 numbered and 6 unnumbered symphonies features the largest and most ambitious.

This is the final disc in the series of Gian Francesco Malipiero' published symphonies, originally issued on Marco Polo. One of the most significant threads in Malipiero' huge and many-sided output.