Malipiero / La Vecchia / Orch Sinfonica Di Roma - Works for Orchestra - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Malipiero - Works for Piano [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/08/2014

While touring in support of their Grammy-winning album Mettavolution, Rodrigo y Gabriela performed the album in full every night at their nearly one hundred shows around the world. Mettavolution Live (also includes new recordings of classic RYG songs) captures a show in Paris at the end of the tour and sees the virtuoso duo operating at the peak of their powers, the perfect balance of melody and metal, fire and finesse, which they have honed over the twenty-plus years of playing together.

Architetture ('Architectures'), a concerto for orchestra in seven linked sections, was the piece that catapulted the Italian composer Giorgio Federico Ghedini to fame in his home country at the late age of 48. On this disc it is coupled with two more of his fi nest orchestral works. The powerful atmosphere and stunning orchestral effects of Marinaresca e baccanale ('Sea Piece and Bacchanale'), written several years earlier, prove that Ghedini's belated recognition was fully deserved. Contrappunti ('Counterpoints'), which Ghedini composed much later in life, fi nds him responding to the inspiration of one of his lifelong musical heroes, Beethoven.