Vittorio Rieti - Music for Harpsichord and Instruments
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Label: New World Records
Cat No: NW80764
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 30th March 2015
Contents
Works
Concertino for 5 instrumentsPastorale e Fughetta, for flute, viola and harpsichord
Sonata Breve for violin and harpsichord
Sonata all'Antica
Triptych for 2 harpsichords
Variations on 2 Cantigas de Santa Maria
Artists
Marina Minkin (harpsichord)Mark Kroll (harpsichord)
Carol Lieberman (violin)
Moshe Epstein (flute)
Zvi Carmeli (viola)
Ella Toovy (cello)
Yael Zamir (oboe)
Richard Paley (bassoon)
Julia Rovinsky (harp)
Works
Concertino for 5 instrumentsPastorale e Fughetta, for flute, viola and harpsichord
Sonata Breve for violin and harpsichord
Sonata all'Antica
Triptych for 2 harpsichords
Variations on 2 Cantigas de Santa Maria
Artists
Marina Minkin (harpsichord)Mark Kroll (harpsichord)
Carol Lieberman (violin)
Moshe Epstein (flute)
Zvi Carmeli (viola)
Ella Toovy (cello)
Yael Zamir (oboe)
Richard Paley (bassoon)
Julia Rovinsky (harp)
About
The desire to compose modern music inspired by or in imitation of the baroque and classical styles was adopted by many composers in the first half of the twentieth century.
Vittorio Rieti (1898–1994), who probably absorbed neo-classicism from Stravinsky in Paris, embraced it with all the passion of his youth and of the period, but unlike his contemporaries, Rieti never let go of it. He continued to write in this mode throughout his life, long after most composers had abandoned or transformed the style. As Rieti himself remarked in 1973, “I maintain the same aesthetic assumptions I have always had. I have kept evolving in the sense that one keeps on perfecting the same ground".
The harpsichord, moreover, was perhaps the ideal instrument with which to invoke the neo-classical sound. Rieti never lost his fondness for the harpsichord. If anything he became more enamoured of it, and as his affection increased, so did his skill in writing for it.
Six of his eight compositions for the instrument appear on this recording, spanning the entirety of his compositional life: one of the earliest, the Sonata all’Antica (1946); three pieces from the 1960s - the Concertino for Flute, Viola, Cello, Harp and Harpsichord (1963), the Pastorale e Fughetta for Flute, Viola and Harpsichord (1966), and the Sonata Breve for Violin and Harpsichord (1967); and his last two compositions for harpsichord, written when he was in his eighties: the Variations on Two Cantigas de Santa Maria (1978), and the Triptych for Two Harpsichords (1982).
Rieti left a lasting legacy of harpsichord music and other works in his very personal style, which was eloquently described by his old teacher Alfredo Casella: “Rieti’s oeuvre stands apart in its specific clarity, gaiety and sophistication of a kind only he possesses, yet it hides a good deal of melancholy”.
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