Sgambati Complete Piano Music, Volume 2

This second volume of the complete piano works by Sgambati presents the 12 Mélodie poétiques Op. 36, Fogli volanti Op. 12, Fantasie alpestri and many shorter individual works. 🎵 Purchase or streaming (Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Naxos, Presto): 💎 More Information: 🎬🎮 These tracks are available for sync licensing in videos, films, tv-shows, games, advertising and more. For more information and to request a license go to: Composer: Giovanni Sgambati Artist: Gaia Federica Caporiccio (piano) An Italian disciple of Liszt, Giovanni Sgambati (1841-1914) was once chiefly for his once-popular transcription of the Melodie from Gluck’s Orphée ed Euridice. His own music has only begun receiving sustained attention in the last couple of decades, and Gaia Federica Caporiccio’s projected complete survey is only the second such project to reach completion. 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) 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 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. 👉 Social media links: Facebook: Spotify: Brilliant Classics: Facebook: Spotify: Instagram: TikTok: Tracklist: Mélodies poétiques, Op. 36: 0:00:00 I. Praeludium 0:00:54 II. Canzonetta D’aprile 0:03:44 III. Rivelazione 0:05:55 IV. Sull’altalena 0:08:05 V. Preghiera Turbata 0:10:13 VI. Ansietà 0:11:25 VII. En Valsant 0:12:51 VIII. Dolci Confidenze 0:14:37 IX. Marche 0:16:01 X. Anima Appassionata 0:18:17 XI. Profonda Pena 0:20:45 XII. Cantico di Speranza 3 Morceaux, Op. 42: 0:23:47 I. Preludio 0:24:42 II. Berceuse-Rêverie 0:29:20 III. Melodia campestre (Impromptu) Fogli volanti, Op. 12: 0:32:19 I. Romanza 0:36:11 II. Canzonetta 0:40:24 III. Idillio 0:41:27 IV. Marcia 0:42:29 V. Vecchio Castello 0:45:27 VI. Épanouissement 0:46:50 VII. Combattimento 0:48:27 VIII. Campane a Festa 4 Pezzi di seguito, Op. 18: 0:50:46 I. Preludio 0:53:32 II. Vecchio Minuetto 0:57:36 III. Nenia 1:03:52 IV. Toccata Suite, Op. 21: 1:08:25 I. Prélude 1:12:32 II. Valse 1:17:41 III. Air 1:21:15 IV. Intermezzo 1:24:33 V. Étude Mélodique 1:28:53 Valse Brillante 1:34:13 Scherzo in E Major 1:38:36 Toccata 1:41:41 Romanza in F Major 1:44:30 Romanza in A Major 1:48:03 Mestizia 1:52:24 Mélodie-Impromptu (Mestizia, II Versione) 1:57:28 Boîte à musique - Badinage 2:01:48 Serenatina in E Major 2:03:26 Presentimento 2:04:57 Preludio Fantasie Alpestri: 2:06:20 I. Scherzino 2:07:35 II. Confidenze 2:08:32 III. Fantasia per il Piffero 2:09:19 IV. Serenatina Interrotta 2:10:35 V. Diavoleria 2:11:35 VI. Canto di Guerra Thank you for watching this video, we hope you enjoyed it! Don’t forget to like and share the video and subscribe. Visit our channel for more from the greatest composers. We upload daily with complete albums and compilations with the best classical music. #Sgambati #Piano #Music #PianoMusic #PianoClassics #ClassicalMusic #ClassicalPiano #BrilliantClassics