Gianluca Cascioli – ‘900 Italia (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:21:26 minutes | 2,67 GB | Genre: Classical
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Gianluca Cascioli is an Italian pianist, conductor, and composer. He studied composition at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Turin and piano with Franco Scala. In 1994, Cascioli won the Umberto Micheli International Piano Competition, whose jury included Luciano Berio, Elliott Carter, Charles Rosen, and Maurizio Pollini. The prize included a record contract with Deutsche Grammophon, for whom he recorded three CDs in his late teens.
He has appeared as a piano soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, and numerous other orchestras worldwide. Conductors he has worked with include Claudio Abbado, Roberto Abbado, Myung-Whun Chung, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Valery Gergiev, Zubin Mehta, Mstislav Rostropovich, Neville Marriner, and many others. His chamber-music partners have included Maxim Vengerov, Mstislav Rostropovich, Stefano Mollo, the Berlin Philharmonic Octet, and many others.
He has conducted the Deutsche Kammerorchester Frankfurt, and among compositions of his to be performed are a Sonatina (2004) premiered at the Hamburg Musikfest, Variations for Piano, premiered in Japan, and a Symphony premiered in Italy, as well as a Violin and Piano Sonata premiered in Italy with Stefano Mollo.
His discography includes three CDs for DG, a recording of the original Fantasie version of the Schumann Piano Concerto with Mario Venzago and the Basel Symphony Orchestra for Hanssler, a CD of Chopin for Decca, and a CD of Debussy Préludes, Children’s Corner, and other works for Decca.
Tracklist:
01. Gianluca Cascioli – Busoni: 7 Elegien, BV 249-7. Berceuse (05:42)
02. Gianluca Cascioli – Busoni: Sonatina No.4, BV 274 “in diem nativitatis Christi MCMXVII” (07:07)
03. Gianluca Cascioli – Alaleona: La città fiorita, cinque “impronte” per pianoforte-2. Crisantemo (03:10)
04. Gianluca Cascioli – Malipiero: Risonanze-1. Calmo (01:50)
05. Gianluca Cascioli – Malipiero: Risonanze-2. Fluido (01:28)
06. Gianluca Cascioli – Malipiero: Risonanze-3. Non troppo mosso (01:27)
07. Gianluca Cascioli – Malipiero: Risonanze-4. Agitato, non troppo (01:15)
08. Gianluca Cascioli – Lupi: 6 Studi per pianoforte-1. Vivo e fresco (02:24)
09. Gianluca Cascioli – Lupi: 6 Studi per pianoforte-2. Moderatamente mosso (01:37)
10. Gianluca Cascioli – Lupi: 6 Studi per pianoforte-3. Velocissimo (01:29)
11. Gianluca Cascioli – Savagnone: Prisma armonico, Op. 22-Preludio No. 1: Allegro (01:53)
12. Gianluca Cascioli – Berio: 6 Encores-3. Wasserklavier (01:43)
13. Gianluca Cascioli – Castiglioni: Sonatina per pianoforte-1. Andantino mosso assai dolcino (04:28)
14. Gianluca Cascioli – Castiglioni: Sonatina per pianoforte-2. Ländler. Allegro semplice (00:55)
15. Gianluca Cascioli – Castiglioni: Sonatina per pianoforte-3. Fughetta. Allegretto (01:13)
16. Gianluca Cascioli – Mosso: Secondo quaderno per pianoforte (05:24)
17. Gianluca Cascioli – Mosso: Pièce mécanique per pianoforte (in memoria di E.Satie) (01:35)
18. Gianluca Cascioli – Mosso: 22 Preludi per pianoforte-No. 4 Canzone (02:57)
19. Gianluca Cascioli – Mosso: 22 Preludi per pianoforte-No. 11 Allegretto vivo (01:09)
20. Gianluca Cascioli – Mosso: 22 Preludi per pianoforte-No. 14 Allegro marziale (01:49)
21. Gianluca Cascioli – Mosso: 22 Preludi per pianoforte-No. 18 Canzone di culla (01:47)
22. Gianluca Cascioli – Mosso: 22 Preludi per pianoforte-No. 22 Molto allegro, volante (00:58)
23. Gianluca Cascioli – Colla: Notturno IV “Moonbow” (07:36)
24. Gianluca Cascioli – Colla: Notturno VII “Mosarc” (06:26)
25. Gianluca Cascioli – Colla: Notturno IX “Rope bridge” (06:05)
26. Gianluca Cascioli – Colla: Notturno X “Lunar Ephemeris” (07:47)
