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BAND/ARTIST: Ester Fusar Poli
- Title: Ponchielli: Piano Music
- Year Of Release: 2023
- Label: Brilliant Classics
- Genre: Classical Piano
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks) / flac 24bits - 96.0kHz +Booklet
- Total Time: 01:13:20
- Total Size: 239 mb / 1.23 gb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. La gioconda, Op. 9, danza delle ore in E Major - Moderato in A Minor - Andante poco mosso in A Major - Allegro vivacissimo
02. Il primo affetto, Op. 94 in D-Flat Major - Andante
03. Amicizia, Op. 95 in B-Flat Major - Mazurka
04. T'amerò sempre, Op. 87 in D-Flat Major - Andante
05. Tutti ebbri, Op. 90 in D Major - Vivacissimo
06. Elegia, add 9 in E-Flat Minor/Major - Andante, mosso e agitato
07. Improvviso in A Major - Moderato
08. Notturno, Op. 93 in A-Flat Major - Andantino
09. Gavotte poudrée, Op. 91 in F Major - Allegretto moderato
10. Elegia, Op. 92 in A Major - Andante lento
11. Saltellina-polka, Op. 98 in E-Flat Major - Moderato-Polka
12. Elegia funebre in onore di felice frasi, Op. 89 in B-Flat Minor - Andante flebile poco mosso
13. La staffetta di gambolò, Op. 88 in D Major - Polka
14. Marcia funebre per i funerali di Francesco Lucca, Op. 112 in G Minor - Assai maestoso
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Charming salon miniatures and a grand funeral march by the verismo composer of La Gioconda.
Ponchielli’s career developed during a rapidly evolving era in Italian musical culture that posterity squeezed him between Verdi on the one hand and his own students, Mascagni and Puccini on the other, though he hardly lacked for popular or academic recognition in his own time. Born in 1834, Ponchielli had written a symphony by the age of 10 and started out as a bandmaster for the wind ensembles which were centres of amateur music-making in Italian towns comparable to the choirs in the UK and Germany.
While Ponchielli belatedly won wider fame with I promessi sposi in 1874, his death from pneumonia in 1886 cut him off in his prime with only one acknowledged operatic masterpiece to his name: La Gioconda, Boito’s adaptation of a Victor Hugo story. However, he continued to write instrumental pieces at the height of his fame. Most of the pieces issued here were published in the 1870s and 1880s, and some of them are far more substantial than mere album-leaves. Yet they are hardly known at all; Riccardo Muti recorded an orchestration of the sombre and touching Elegia funebre from 1881, but Ester Fusar Poli’s new recording is the only available version of the piano original.
Even more imposing in scale is the 16-minute Funeral March which Ponchielli wrote late in 1872 to honour the passingof the publisher Francesco Lucca. However, no Ponchielli album would be complete without a version of the ‘Dance of the Hours’ immortalised by Walt Disney’s hippos in Fantasia. Between these two poles of Ponchielli’s output, Ester Fusar Poli presents a beguiling sequence of elegies, nocturnes, polkas and tone-poems, demonstrating the composer’s expressive range and deft piano writing. An extensive essay by Gabriele Galleggiante Crisafulli considers Ponchielli’s piano output in the context of his career as a whole, making this album an important contribution to our understanding of a figure who was much more than a ‘one-work composer’.
01. La gioconda, Op. 9, danza delle ore in E Major - Moderato in A Minor - Andante poco mosso in A Major - Allegro vivacissimo
02. Il primo affetto, Op. 94 in D-Flat Major - Andante
03. Amicizia, Op. 95 in B-Flat Major - Mazurka
04. T'amerò sempre, Op. 87 in D-Flat Major - Andante
05. Tutti ebbri, Op. 90 in D Major - Vivacissimo
06. Elegia, add 9 in E-Flat Minor/Major - Andante, mosso e agitato
07. Improvviso in A Major - Moderato
08. Notturno, Op. 93 in A-Flat Major - Andantino
09. Gavotte poudrée, Op. 91 in F Major - Allegretto moderato
10. Elegia, Op. 92 in A Major - Andante lento
11. Saltellina-polka, Op. 98 in E-Flat Major - Moderato-Polka
12. Elegia funebre in onore di felice frasi, Op. 89 in B-Flat Minor - Andante flebile poco mosso
13. La staffetta di gambolò, Op. 88 in D Major - Polka
14. Marcia funebre per i funerali di Francesco Lucca, Op. 112 in G Minor - Assai maestoso
Charming salon miniatures and a grand funeral march by the verismo composer of La Gioconda.
Ponchielli’s career developed during a rapidly evolving era in Italian musical culture that posterity squeezed him between Verdi on the one hand and his own students, Mascagni and Puccini on the other, though he hardly lacked for popular or academic recognition in his own time. Born in 1834, Ponchielli had written a symphony by the age of 10 and started out as a bandmaster for the wind ensembles which were centres of amateur music-making in Italian towns comparable to the choirs in the UK and Germany.
While Ponchielli belatedly won wider fame with I promessi sposi in 1874, his death from pneumonia in 1886 cut him off in his prime with only one acknowledged operatic masterpiece to his name: La Gioconda, Boito’s adaptation of a Victor Hugo story. However, he continued to write instrumental pieces at the height of his fame. Most of the pieces issued here were published in the 1870s and 1880s, and some of them are far more substantial than mere album-leaves. Yet they are hardly known at all; Riccardo Muti recorded an orchestration of the sombre and touching Elegia funebre from 1881, but Ester Fusar Poli’s new recording is the only available version of the piano original.
Even more imposing in scale is the 16-minute Funeral March which Ponchielli wrote late in 1872 to honour the passingof the publisher Francesco Lucca. However, no Ponchielli album would be complete without a version of the ‘Dance of the Hours’ immortalised by Walt Disney’s hippos in Fantasia. Between these two poles of Ponchielli’s output, Ester Fusar Poli presents a beguiling sequence of elegies, nocturnes, polkas and tone-poems, demonstrating the composer’s expressive range and deft piano writing. An extensive essay by Gabriele Galleggiante Crisafulli considers Ponchielli’s piano output in the context of his career as a whole, making this album an important contribution to our understanding of a figure who was much more than a ‘one-work composer’.
Year 2023 | Classical | FLAC / APE | HD & Vinyl
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