Sgambati - Complete Piano Music Vol.2
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Label: Piano Classics
Cat No: PCL10252
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 27th October 2023
Contents
Works
Boite a musique in D flat majorFantasie alpestri
Fogli volanti, op.12
Melodie impromptu
Melodies poetiques, op.36
Mestizia in F sharp minor
Morceaux (3), op.42
Pezzi di seguito (4), op.18
Preludio in C major
Presentimento in A flat major
Romanza in A major
Romanza in F major
Scherzo in E major
Serenatina in E major
Suite in B minor, op.21
Toccata
Valse brillante
Artists
Gaia Federica Caporiccio (piano)Works
Boite a musique in D flat majorFantasie alpestri
Fogli volanti, op.12
Melodie impromptu
Melodies poetiques, op.36
Mestizia in F sharp minor
Morceaux (3), op.42
Pezzi di seguito (4), op.18
Preludio in C major
Presentimento in A flat major
Romanza in A major
Romanza in F major
Scherzo in E major
Serenatina in E major
Suite in B minor, op.21
Toccata
Valse brillante
Artists
Gaia Federica Caporiccio (piano)About
The first volume of the survey (PCL10216) met with a warm critical welcome. According to Fanfare magazine, ‘Gaia Federica Caporiccio plays with a winsome freshness, offering some finely shaped melodies and some insightful rubato.’ Caporiccio now turns to some of the collections which most betray the influence of Schumann on Sgambati’s style, or at least they share the German composer’s capriciously divided personality.
The eight pieces of Fogli volanti (Flying Pages), op.12, begin with a Romanza which could almost have strayed from the pages of Kinderszenen, but then Sgambati reveals his hand, and his Italian origins, in a gently swaying Canzonetta. The simplicity of the following Idyll is likewise Sgambati’s own, and a fine balance between German and Italian influences continues to mark the suite until the concluding festivities of its ‘Campane a festa’.
On a miniature scale – the six movements lasting hardly more than a miniature each – the Fantasie alpestri return to Sgambati’s origins, or at least an idealised, rural version of them. The ghostly presence of Schumann once more surges up between the semiquavers in the opening Prelude of the Quattro pezzi di seguito before a kind of commedia dell’arte spirit takes over in the ‘Vecchio menuetto’. The slow movement of the suite is supplied by ‘Nenia’, taking its name from an old Roman funeral song. The Mélodies poetiques are cast in a lighter vein, whereas the five-movement Suite, op.21, finds Sgambati at his most Lisztian, with rippling figuration to test out any virtuoso pianist.
Gaia Federica Caporiccio’s pianism and dedication is restoring the name of Sgambati to a measure of wider renown; her own booklet essay completes a labour of love which will make essential listening for any piano collector.
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