Rossini / Marangoni / Dindo - Complete Piano Music 8 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This much lauded series continues with a sequence of four premiere recordings played by the elite Illinois State University Wind Symphony. Roy Magnuson's House Plants in Terracotta Pots is described by the composer 'as a simple statement of something simply thought.' Sydney Hodkinson's expressive Duae Cantatae Breves explores the slow and meditative potential of the wind band. Jayce John Ogren's richly imagined and poetic Evening Music is followed by Francesco José Martínez Gallego's exciting, monumental Sinfonía No. 1 'Kaprekar'.

Volume 11 in this series of Gioachino Rossini's piano music completes Alessandro Marangoni's monumental project to record all 200 or so individual works comprising the Peches de vieillesse or 'Sins of Old Age' (including some preliminary sketches.) Highlights include all four duets from the collection, from the highly operatic Le gittane to Un sou, in which two beggars try to sell the collar of their dead dog. Rossini's sacred or pious songs, such as the surprisingly intense Ave Maria (su due note) prompted Richard Wagner's response, Inchthe Parisian salons have turned into prayer cells... extraordinary!Inch The closing piece of this edition is appropriately a setting by Rossini of his own name. Alessandro Marangoni studied piano with Maria Tipo. A winner of several national and international awards, including the prestigious 'Amici di Milano' International Prize, he has appeared throughout Europe, America and China as a soloist and as a chamber musician.

Rossini considered the 'mezzo' voice to be his ideal, stating that 'the contralto is the norm against which the other voices and instruments of the composition must be gauged.' Containing numerous premiere recordings, this penultimate in Alessandro Marangoni's acclaimed traversal of Rossini's complete piano music is vibrant with national colors from France, Italy and Spain, and rich in emotions of sadness and love, from the tragic Adieux a la vie! Sung on a single note, to the sustained operatic embellishments of Questo palpito soave. Mezzo-soprano Giuseppina Bridelli has appeared to great acclaim in major productions both in Italy and internationally, and at venues as widespread as Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Montreal and Carnegie Hall in New York.