LIN Ensemble - Chamber Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Milanese composer Riccardo Malipiero was born in Milan in 1914 and took lessons with his uncle, Gian Francesco Malipiero in the late 30s. Malipiero disowned all that he wrote up until 1938 and saved only a small amount of that written before 1945 the surviving early pieces show the influence of his uncle's teaching and the neo-classicism of Casella and Stravinsky. However, influenced by Luigi Dallapiccola, he came to embrace a personal, lyrical language of 12-tone composition which ultimately traces it's roots back to the music of Berg. The four-movement Violin Sonata from 1956 makes an ideal introduction to Riccardo Malipiero's music, with a nervous, waltz-like Scherzo and a frozen slow movement leading into the finale's extensive violin cadenza, beautifully written for the instrument and played here by Rebecca Raimondi with burning conviction as well as ferocious accuracy (she included the sonata within her Master's recital at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, from which she graduated in 2017). At her graduation recital she was accompanied by Alessandro Viale, and together with the other members of the Rest Ensemble they have given concerts of Malipiero's music in both the UK and Italy, lending to these studio recordings the ring of intimacy and impassioned authenticity that is rare in recordings of unfamiliar modernist music. The Piano Trio of 1969 sets a tougher challenge to both performers and listeners, more angular and explosive, yet still imbued with a strain of wit and grace that runs through his output. Album Tracks 1. Sonata (1956) for Violin and Piano 2. Ciaccona Di Davide (1970) for Viola and Piano 3. Mosaico II (Hommage to Rodolfo Lipizer) (1987) for Violin Solo 4. Trio (1968) for Piano, Violin and Cello

Album Tracks 1. I. Allegro Con Spirito 2. II. Andante, Chorale St. Antoni 3. III. Minuetto 4. IV. Rondo Allegretto 5. I. Allegro Moderato 6. II. Andante Con Variazioni 7. III. Menuetto Allegretto 8. IV. Finale Allegro 9. I. Allegro Comodo 10. II. Andante Moderato 11. III. Minuetto 12. IV. Rondo Allegretto 13. I. Allegro Non Molto 14. II. Adagio en Rondo 15. III. Minuetto 16. IV. Scherzando 17. I. Marcia Con Spirito 18. II. Dolcema L'amour 19. III. Minuetto 20. IV. Andantino 21. V. Allemande

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