Fabrizio Chiovetta

Quatuor Terpsycordes, Fabrizio Chiovetta – Frank Martin : Piano Quintet, Quartet, Pavane couleur du temps (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Quatuor Terpsycordes, Fabrizio Chiovetta – Frank Martin : Piano Quintet, Quartet, Pavane couleur du temps (2024)
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Chamber music meanders throughout Frank Martin’s career in a multitude of different ensembles and titles, ranging from the classical to the more unexpected, such as the Rhapsodie for string quintet with double bass, the Sonata da chiesa for viola d’amore and organ, the Ballade for trombone and piano or the Petite fanfare for brass sextet. Within this abundance, the composer approached only sparingly the most historically established genres. His only string quartet is a late work, his last chamber music piece. On the contrary, the Quintet for piano and strings and the Pavane couleur du temps are among his earliest contributions in this field.

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Patrick Messina, Fabrizio Chiovetta, Pierre Lenert – Schumann: Music for Clarinet (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Patrick Messina, Fabrizio Chiovetta, Pierre Lenert - Schumann: Music for Clarinet (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

The clarinetist Patrick Messina and the pianist Fabrizio Chiovetta invite us to a journey through Schumann’s poetic universe, from romance to fantasy and to tale. What better way to convey the inexpressible imagination of a composer who never choses between sounds and words than the intimacy of chamber music and the mellow timbre of the clarinet ? The disc features works that pull the auditor into Robert Schumann’s productive years and a transcription made by the artists for the clarinet, the indeal autumnal and lyrical instrument. A duo with the viola player Pierre Lenert enhances the expressive palette of the disc. Besides, they don’t forget Clara Schumann whose inspiration happens to communicate with Robert’s in this beautiful chamber music program.
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Henri Demarquette, Fabrizio Chiovetta & Patrick Messina – Rääts, Pärt, Gorecki: Kaleidoscopic (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Of the three composers on this album, the Estonian Jaan Rääts is surely less well-known to Western European audiences than Arvo Pärt or Henryk Górecki – even though the latter is mainly famous for a single work, the monumental Third Symphony which is far from representing the majority of his output. That said, this, Lerchenmusik – a pun, as “Lerche” is not only the German for skylark, but also the name of the dedicatee – has plenty in common with the famous symphony: a consistently slow tempo, in fact very, very slow; long, breathtaking, sombre chords; and a very substantial theme. The work for clarinet, cello and piano was written in 1985 in a similar vein: perhaps Górecki had grasped what his audiences liked about his language, at least in terms of symphonies: that is, the incantatory, quasi-religious quality. So why disappoint his public? Pärt, for his part, contributes the Mozart-Adagio in memory of Oleg Kagan, in a first version for violin, cello and piano: the revision was made specifically for the musicians on this recording. The composer took a slow movement from the Mozart and put it through several harmonic and thematic metamorphoses. Finally, the Kaleidoskoopilised etüüdid by Jaan Rääts are presented here as a discographic world-first. Their “kaleidoscopic” aspect is created by juxtaposing short thematic, rhythmic, or instrumental cells, like so many minimalist fragments, all jumbled together: just like the effect of looking through a kaleidoscope.

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Fabrizio Chiovetta – Schumann: Fantasie, Arabeske, Kinderszenen (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Die späten 1830er-Jahre waren zwar eine schwierige Zeit im persönlichen Leben von Robert Schumann, doch es entstanden auch einige sehr brillante Klavierwerke. Fabrizio Chiovetta stellt hier drei von ihnen vor, die verschiedene Aspekte des poetischen Stils des Komponisten illustrieren. In der Liszt gewidmeten Fantasie ist Schumann frei und leidenschaftlich, in der Arabeske lyrisch und intim, in den Kinderszenen einfach und zart. Schumann selbst bezeichnete diesen Zyklus als »Rückspiegelungen eines Älteren und für Ältere«, als Darstellung der Kinderwelt aus der Perspektive des Erwachsenen.

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Fabrizio Chiovetta – Mozart: Piano Sonatas, KV 310, KV 282, KV 332 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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From an immediately touching piece by the young genius to the more profoundly tragic and technically challenging sonatas by the elder composer, pianist Fabrizio Chiovetta constantly nourishes the emotion. A tribute to Mozart’s multifaceted art.

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Fabrizio Chiovetta – Beethoven – Op. 109, 110, 111 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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By the time Beethoven came to compose the last three of his 32 piano sonatas, written, he said, “in a single breath” and conceived as a unified whole, he was almost completely deaf. Dense and complex, these innovative works, marking indelibly his farewell to the genre, pose many challenges, which are taken up here with mastery by Fabrizio Chiovetta. His performance, nurtured by a strong musical maturity and a deep understanding of the score, echoes to the greatness of these works as Fabrizio Chiovetta takes us into the mystery of Beethoven’s genius.

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Fabrizio Chiovetta – Bach: Keyboard Suites (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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This programme, carefully chosen from amongst the hundreds of works by the composer, starts first with the French Overture in B minor: a monumental, complex work, rarely performed in concert. It was during a recital by Grigory Sokolov that Chiovetta fell in love with this pièce. He next chose one of the fundamental pieces that marks the culmination of the suite genre: the sublime Partita No.1 in B flat major. He concludes with the English Suite No.4, with the wish of restoring some of the honour it deserves.

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