Malipiero - Complete Songs for Soprano & Piano
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96153
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 3
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 19th November 2021
Contents
Works
Canti di FilomelaCanzonette veneziane (7)
I Sonetti delle Fate
Keepsake
La cavalcata della morte
Le sette allegrezze d'amore
Le stagioni italiche for soprano and piano
Melodies (5)
Mondi celesti
Poesie del Poliziano (3)
Romanze di Domenico Gnoli (2)
Sonetti del Berni (2)
Sonetti del Burchiello (4)
Vocalizzo per voce acuta
Artists
Vansěsiem Lied DuoWorks
Canti di FilomelaCanzonette veneziane (7)
I Sonetti delle Fate
Keepsake
La cavalcata della morte
Le sette allegrezze d'amore
Le stagioni italiche for soprano and piano
Melodies (5)
Mondi celesti
Poesie del Poliziano (3)
Romanze di Domenico Gnoli (2)
Sonetti del Berni (2)
Sonetti del Burchiello (4)
Vocalizzo per voce acuta
Artists
Vansěsiem Lied DuoAbout
Malipiero wrote songs throughout his career, and in his late 20s found an affinity with the visionary and influential poet Gabriele d’Annunzio. Their artistic partnership began in 1909 with I sonetti delle fate, full of Wagnerian yearning in the spirit of Debussy’s incidental music to d’Annunzio’s St Sebastian play. The composer’s literary leanings and gifted word setting soon produced equally idiomatic settings of French poetry in a set of Cinq mélodies and an elliptical cycle of three poems (titled in English) by Georges Jean-Aubry, Keepsake.
With Le stagioni italiche, however, Malipiero shows himself up to date and in sympathy with the latest developments in expressionist song writing from the pens of Mahler, Schoenberg and Webern, and with an ambition to match: a 40-minute cycle of four varied texts ranging from the 15th century to Malipiero’s own day. Like much else here, the cycle has previously been recorded but never in the context of Malipiero’s other songs which help us to understand the composer’s stylistic evolution. Three years later, there followed a through-composed drama based on the ancient legend of Philomel (immortalised by Ovid in the Metamorphoses) from which Malipiero extracted a cycle of three songs. He continued to refresh his style and innovate with Le sette allegrezze d’amore from 1945, but little in his music prepares the listener for the pointilliste precision of the Sette canzonette veneziane from 1960.
Anyone with a passion for art song will want to acquaint themselves with this marvellously varied body of work, especially in the hands of the ‘Vansěsiem Lied Duo’, consisting of soprano Paola Camponovo and pianist Alfredo Blessano. Previous albums have shown them to be acutely sensitive interpreters of Rossini, Debussy and Lili Boulanger, and the French-Italian axis of Malipiero’s songs plays to their particular talents.
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