FREE UK SHIPPING OVER £30!

Martucci - Piano Trios, Piano Quintet | Brilliant Classics 94968

Martucci - Piano Trios, Piano Quintet

£10.87 £8.14

save £2.73 (25%)

special offer ending 24/04/2024

Currently out of stock at the UK suppliers. Available to order, but is likely to take longer than usual to despatch

Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 94968

Barcode: 5028421949680

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 18th November 2016

Contents

About

Giuseppe Martucci (1856‐1909) was in the vanguard of Italian composers working outside the dominant operatic tradition. Having received his first music lessons from his father, he entered the Royal College in Naples in 1868 and three years later produced his first major work, the Piano Quintet. The opus number of 45 indicates the industry with which the composer applied himself, not only in his youth but throughout his life, and it is a remarkably mature work for a 21‐year‐old, recognised by the award of a local but prestigious prize for composition.

Martucci’s two piano trios date from his late 20s, are cast on the grandest scale, in Schubertian dimensions with a truly Brahmsian breadth of line and spaciousness of argument. Like the Quintet they are cast in the traditional four movements, which open with a searching melody over a turbulent accompaniment, quickly ceding to the gentler development of lovely cantabile ideas: despite writing instrumentally, Martucci had a native gift for apparently natural,singing melodies. A Mendelssohnian lightness of texture lifts these trios from the occasionally heavy‐handed rhetoric of the Piano Quintet. One may also hear the composer’s Neapolitan background, especially in the rustic Scherzos with their echoes of local folk music and musicians.

This new recording complements previous releases by Brilliant Classics of the piano music with which Martucci learnt his craft (BC94800) and the music for cello and piano (BC94816) which is roughly contemporary with the trios. The performers have considerable experience in this underappreciated field of unquestionably underappreciated music. Maria Semeraro is the pianist on the Brilliant Classics release of the music for cello and piano by Alfredo Casella (BC94823), and the Quartetto Noferini have made a well‐received disc of chamber music by Martucci’s teacher, Giovanni Sgambati (BC94813). Together they form an impressively idiomatic partnership.

Also Available

Saint-Saens - Cello Sonatas
Saint-Saens - Cello Sonatas

£9.05

(Brilliant Classics)

R Strauss & Thuille - Cello Sonatas
R Strauss & Thuille - Cello Sonatas

£9.05

(Brilliant Classics)

Martucci - Piano Works
Martucci - Piano Works

£9.05

(Brilliant Classics)

Error on this page? Let us know here

Need more information on this product? Click here