Giovanna Gatto – Respighi: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 2 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:41 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
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Respighi’s orchestral works are some of the most popular in the mainstream repertoire. His output of piano music, by contrast, is as good as unknown, and this Toccata Classics series will be the first-ever to present it all: original works and transcriptions alike, for solo piano, piano four hands and two pianos. The prentice works on this second volume of solo works reveal a Respighi with roots in the high-Romantic past of Schumann, Chopin and Brahms, but they also show the first signs of his later interest in the Italian pre-Baroque.
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Giovanna Gatto – Respighi: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1 – Original Piano Works I (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 54:01 minutes | 440 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Toccata Classics
Respighi’s orchestral works are some of the most popular in the mainstream repertoire. His output of piano music, by contrast, is as good as unknown, and this new Toccata Classics series will be the first ever to present it all: original works and transcriptions alike, for solo piano, piano four hands and two pianos. This first instalment crowns his earliest keyboard compositions with the magisterial Three Preludes on Gregorian Melodies, miniature Lisztian tone-poems presented with Busonian grandeur.
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