Ildebrando Pizzetti: Orchesterwerke auf CD

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With the exception of a few works by Ottorino Respighi, and for reasons which are relatively obscure, the orchestral concert music of the generation of Italian composers to which Ildebrando Pizzetti belongs has—so far as international acceptance is concerned—remained little-known outside Italy.

It can be claimed that this relative disregard surely has more to do with fashion and performing circumstance than with the quality of the music, and, of these undoubted masters, it is the art of Ildebrando Pizzetti which is perhaps most in need of reassessment and revival, for original music of this self-evident quality—music which was performed and recorded by, among others, Arturo Toscanini, Yehudi Menuhin, Nathan Milstein and Tullio Serafin—manifestly does not deserve to remain unknown.

Pizzetti's music clearly declares him to have been a Latin composer, traditional in approach and general manner, yet always refined and polished by his mastery of a stylization which combined lyrical elements of late-Romanticism (in technique, not ethos), the clear structure of early Italian masters, and a tonal fluidity which may initially have owed a little to César Franck.

His music is imaginative and strikingly beautiful, from the music he composed for theatre (La Pisanella) to the mood pictures (Tre Preludii Sinfonici): all are sure to delight listeners and show that he is a composer who should be neglected no longer.

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‘One of the most gorgeous recordings of orchestral music I have heard in the last year’ (Crisis, USA)

'Strongly recommended' (Hi-Fi News & Record Review)

'The four orchestral works on this magnificently-performed and brilliantly-recorded release show off Pizzetti’s sumptuous blend of romantic-impressionistic harmony with modally-inflected melody to its richest and most cinematic … If orchestral splendor is the music lover’s chocolate, this disc is a five-pound box of opera creams. Yum' (American Record Guide)

'Brilliantly colourful performances - no better way of winning converts to Pizzetti' (Gramophone)

'This excellent and impeccably played survey reveals a talent well worth investigating' (The Scotsman)

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G.​ Schubert in FonoForum 3/00: "Osmo Vänskä versteht es einfühlsam, die Gesten zu Phrasen und Sätzen zu bündeln, die stets eine Geschichte zu erzählen scheinen.​ Er findet die ideale Abstimmung von Intensität des Augenblicks und Kontinuität des Verlaufs.​ Das vorzüglich eingespielte, in allen Gruppen bestens besetzte BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra lässt keine Wünsche offen.​"