Andrea Molteni

Andrea Molteni – Scarlatti: Sonatas (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:04 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Piano Classics
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Domenico Scarlatti

“A strange but wonderful album”: one of the accolades for Andrea Molteni’s debut album on Piano Classics, of the piano works by his countrymen Dallapiccola and Petrassi (PCL10222). For a sequel, he turns to the endlessly inventive store of sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, who drew on his own extraordinary abilities at the keyboard to produce the illusion of written improvisations within a basic two-part form which left routine formulas of keyboard composition farther and farther behind.
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Andrea Molteni – Petrassi, Dallapiccola: Complete Piano Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:22:53 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Piano Classics

A unique concept: the complete piano music by Petrassi and Dallapiccola on 2 CDs.

Goffredo Petrassi was an Italian composer and pedagogue. After his graduation he joined the composition faculty for advanced studies at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, a post he held from 1960 to 1978. His numerous students include Peter Maxwell Davies and Ennio Morricone.

Petrassi’s early works have a neoclassical bias, similar to the neoclassical style of composers like Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, and Paul Hindemith. However, he later set off on a completely independent path that led him to remarkable experiments in atonal abstractionism.

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