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Gino Marinuzzi: Piano Works / Martina Colli and Rossella Rubini, piano

1 CD / Tactus / 2013-01-08

Works: Gino Marinuzzi: Partita, for 2 pianos; Divertimento su un Tema popolare, for piano, 4 hands; Lagerlieder, for piano, 4 hands
Performers: Colli, Martina; Rubini, Rossella

Son of the famous conductor and composer Gino Marinuzzi, this composer was born in New York in April 1920, during one of his father's U.S....continue...
Recording information: Conservatorio "Alfredo Casella" L'Aquila (03/2011)....continue...

Girolamo Crescentini: Solo Voice Arias / Marina Comparato, mezzosoprano; Gianni Fabrini, fortepiano

2 CD / Tactus / 2013-01-08

Works: Girolamo Crescentini: Quinterno primo, arias (8) for voice & piano; Quinterno secondo, arias (8) for voice & piano; Quinterno terzo, arias (8) for voice & piano; Arias (6) for voice & piano "Composte...
Performers: Comparato, Marina; Fabbrini, Gianni

The musician Girolamo Crescentini was a very well known figure in the greatest theatres, both in Italy and abroad, at the end of the 18th...continue...
Recording information: Santa Croce Museum, Umbertide, Italy (12/2011)....continue...

Lino Liviabella & Nino Rota: Works for viola & piano / Luca Sanzo, viola; Maurizio Paciariello, piano

1 CD / Tactus / 2012-04-10

Works: Lino Liviabella: Prima Sonata in un tempo, for viola & piano; Seconda Sonata, for viola & piano; Nino Rota: Sonata for viola & piano no 2 in G major; Sonata for viola & piano no 1 in C major; Interme...
Performers: Paciariello, Maurizio; Sanzo, Luca

Great contemporary chamber music by two Italian masters/composers: Nino Rota (famous worldwide for his soundtracks) and Lino Liviabella!...continue...
Recording information: Chiesa di S. Terenziano Capranica - Viterbo (08/2011)....continue...

Liszt: Italia, sogno d'amore / Chiarastella Onorato, mezzo; Giulio De Luca, pianoforte

1 CD / Tactus / 2012-03-13

Works: Franz Liszt: Sonetti di Petrarca (3), song cycle for voice & piano (I & II), S. 270 (LW N12); O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst (I & II), song for voice & piano, S. 298 (LW N18/3); Buch der Lieder, Vo...
Performers: de Luca, Giulio; Onorati, Chiarastella

During his entire life, Franz Liszt kept a very tight connection with Italy. The repertoire presented on this CD includes the two versions of the...continue...
Recording information: La Ribattola Sarteano, SI (06/2011)....continue...

Marco Enrico Bossi: Complete Works for Cello & Piano / Roberto Noferini, violin; Andrea Noferini, cello & Giulio Giurato, piano

1 CD / Tactus / 2011-11-08

Works: Marco Enrico Bossi: Inspiration à Baveno, melody for cello & piano, Op. 4a; Romance for cello and piano, Op.89; Feuillets d'Album, for cello & piano, Op. 111; Il Canto dell'Anima, for cello & pi...
Performers: Giurato, Giulio; Noferini, Andrea; Noferini, Roberto

The year 2011 celebrates the 150th anniversary of Marco Enrico Bossi, one of the greatest organ virtuosos of his time....continue...
Recording information: Teatro Consorziale Budrio, Bologna, Italy (05/2011)....continue...

Nino Rota: works for Flute & Piano / Roberto Fabbriciani, flute

1 CD / Tactus / 2011-10-11

Works: Nino Rota: Pieces (5) for flute & piano; Elegia, for flute & piano; Allegro vivace, for flute & piano; Sonata for flute & piano; Pieces (3) for 2 flutes; Fantasia on themes from Rota's films, for flu...
Performers: Botteon, Luisella; Damerini, Massimiliano; Fabbriciani, Roberto

In addition to Franz Liszt and Gustav Mahler, the year 2011 celebrates the 100th anniversary of Nino Rota's birth. Although he achieved worldwide success, mainly...continue...
Recording information: Genova, Italy (05/2009)....continue...

Giovanni Sgambatti: The Complete Piano Works, Vol. 3 / Francesco Caramiello, piano

1 CD / Tactus / 2011-09-13

Works: Giovanni Sgambati: Pieces (4) "di Seguito", for piano, Op. 18; Fogli Volanti, for piano, Op. 12 (SG 8); Romanza for piano in A major; Prima Sinfonia, Op. 16; Quartetto, per piano a 4 mani, Op. 17; Fa...
Performers: Caramiello, Francesco; Russo, Pasquale

Recording information: Villa Campolieto, Ercolano, Napoli (12/2000)....continue...

Opera for Piano: Music of Alfonso Rendano / Stefano Severini, piano

1 CD / Tactus / 2011-08-09

Works: Alfonso Rendano: Barcarolo (dal Corsaro di Byron), for piano; Danze slave, for piano; Valse triste, for piano; Notturno for piano in A flat major; Notturno for piano in E major; Impromptu, for piano;...
Performers: Severini, Stefano

Alfonso Rendano is an exemplary musician among the Italian instrumental artists of the second half of the 19th century. The essence of his works is...continue...
Recording information: Fazioli Concert Hall, Sacile, PN, Italy (03/2008)....continue...

Arturo Toscanini e i Maestri di Parma: Liriche per canto e pianoforte

1 CD / Tactus / 2011-03-08

Works: Giovanni Bottesini: La nostra canzone, for voice & piano; Giusto Dacci: Eco Dolorosa, for voice & piano; Il tuo riso, for voice & piano; La tradita morente, for voice & piano; Gustavo Campanini: Amam...
Performers: Cianchi, Simona; Cortesi, Raffaele; Cortesi, Raphaele; Murakami, Yuko; Mustafic, Dzenana

The great repertoire represented on this CD presents the talented Simona Cianchi, Yuko Murakami, and Dzenana Mustafic’ masterfully accompanied by an inspired Raffaele Cortesi. These...continue...
Recording information: Sala Giuseppe Verdi, Conservatorio di Parma, Italy....continue...

Giovanni Sgambati: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2

1 CD / Tactus / 2011-02-08

Works: Giovanni Sgambati: Morceaux (3) for Piano, Op. 42; Etude triomphale for piano in A major; Suite for piano in B, Op. 21; Gavotte for piano, Op. 14; Nocturnes (3), for piano, Op. 20; Benedizione Nuzial...
Performers: Caramiello, Francesco; Siano, Filippo

The talented, eclectic Francesco Caramiello is the star of this CD, and particularly on the Benedizione nuziale, composed for the future wedding of Vittorio Emanuele...continue...
Recording information: Villa Campolieto Ercolano, Napoli, Italy (07/2000)....continue...

Gaetano Fusella: Opera for Violin and Piano

1 CD / Tactus / 2011-02-08

Works: Gaetano Fusella: Novella, for violin & piano; Scherzo Serenata, for violin & piano; Idillio, for violin & piano; Festa al villaggio, for violin & piano; Canto d'autunno, for violin & piano; Danze Pol...
Performers: Meluso, Angela; Tortorelli, Mauro

After focusing on organ music and piano music, this month Tactus dedicates a CD to the works of Neapolitan violinist and composer Gaetano Fusella. The...continue...
Recording information: Studio Phonotype, Napoli, Italy (10/2009)....continue...

Hugues, Köhler: Music for Flute and Piano / Francesco Falanga, Lorenzo Bavaj

1 CD / Tactus / 2008-11-11

Works: Luigi Hugues: Sonata Fantastica, for piccolo & piano, Op. 100; Concerto for Flute in D major,Op. 56; Allegretto Capriccioso, for flute & piano, Op. 93; Notturno, for flute & piano, Op. 94; Sonata for...
Performers: Bavaj, Lorenzo; Falanga, Francesco

Together with other flutists of the time, Luigi Hugues and Ernesto Kohler are considered to be the true initiators of a budding professionalism in the...continue...

Sgambati: The Complete Piano Works Vol 6 / Caramiello, Libetta

1 CD / Tactus / 2008-11-11

Works: Giovanni Sgambati: Symphony no 1 in D major, Op. 16, SG 11; Roy Budd: Maestoso (Marcia funebre), for piano 4 hands; Die Ideale (after Liszt), for piano 4 hands
Performers: Caramiello, Francesco; Libetta, Francesco

The last volume of the complete recordings of the piano music composed by Sgambati contains all the transcriptions for piano duo of his orchestral works...continue...

Jubilemus exultantes - Music from the Cathedral of Parma in the 14th & 15th Centuries

1 CD / Tactus / 2008-09-09

Works: Gregorian Chant: Work(s); Ave Maris stella, hymn for the Assumption of Mary in mode 1 (Liber Cantualis no 73); Rex Salomon fecit templum; Adorabo, alleluia; Quam dilecta tabernacula tua, sequenza; Tr...
Performers: Bisson, Massimo; Bortolami, Antonio; Butterin, Letizia; Drusi, Riccardo; Falconio, Monica; Lamon, Nicola; Mason, Fabrizio; Modena, Elena; Pradella, Jonathan
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Ensemble: Ensemble Oktoechos-Schola Gregoriana di Venezia

Colla: Musica da camera per flauto / Carbotta, et al

1 CD / Tactus / 2008-05-13

Works: Vincenzo Colla: Fantasia for piano & flute, Op. 25; Duo for flute & guitar; Quartet for flute, violin, viola & guitar
Performers: Balzaretti, Carlo; Bianchi, Marco; Bisanti, Alice; Carbotta, Mario; Fichtner, Guido

The pieces contained here represent the complete series of Colla's original compositions with flute, and belong to two clearly distinct creative periods. The Duo for...continue...

Tiziano Bedetti: Piano Works - Studies, Variations

1 CD / Tactus / 2008-03-11

Works: Tiziano Bedetti: Studies (12), for piano; Variations, for piano
Performers: Bedetti, Tiziano

Tiziano Bedetti, in collaboration with Rai Trade Edition, has returned to his background as a piano virtuoso and once again offers us a rich and...continue...

Amilcare Zanella: Trii per violino, violoncello e pianoforte

1 CD / Tactus / 2008-02-12

Works: Amilcare Zanella: Trio for Piano and Strings in E minor, Op. 23; Trio for Piano and Strings in G minor
Performers: Carlini, Caterina Maria; Gattoni, Ornella; Guglielmo, Roberto

Sgambati - The Complete Piano Works Vol 5

1 CD / Tactus / 2008-01-08

Works: Giovanni Sgambati: Preludio & Toccata for piano in G major; Variazione per un concerto di Remey, for piano; Waltz for piano in E major; Valse miniscule, for piano; Valz brillante for piano in E major...
Performers: Caramiello, Francesco; Libetta, Francesco

This is the fifth volume of complete piano music by Sgambati, a pianist, conductor, and composer who promoted a revival of instrumental and symphonic music...continue...

Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle / Scogna, et al

1 CD / Tactus / 2007-10-09

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle
Performers: Battagion, Lorenzo; Brumat, Letizia Calandra; Carbonara, Michelangelo; Filippo, Giuliano De; Pavoni, Alberto; Polimanti, Enrico Maria
Conductors: Scogna, Flavio Emilio
Ensemble: Petrassi Chamber Choir

Rossini's last masterpiece is best realized with the salon sound of chamber music - a sound all the more modern when tied to the timbre...continue...

Pollini: Capriccio, Sonate, etc / Mastroprimiano

1 CD / Tactus / 2007-08-07

Works: Francesco Pollini: Capriccio su "I Pretendenti delusi", for piano, Op. 28; Sonata for Piano in C minor, Op. 26/3; Sonata for Piano in G minor, Op. 26/6; Variazioni e Toccata for piano, Op. 53
Performers: Mastroprimiano, Costantino

Francesco Pollini (1762-1846), born in Ljubljana, was a student of Mozart in Vienna before transferring to Milan and studying with Zingarelli. Pollini became not only...continue...

Buzzolla: Opera Completa per Pianoforte / Aldo Fiorentin

1 CD / Tactus / 2007-07-10

Works: Antonio Buzzolla: Sonata for Piano in E flat major, Op. 1; Sonata for Piano no 2 in G major; Marziale for piano in C major; Notturno for piano in F minor; Waltzes (2), for piano
Performers: Fiorentin, Aldo

Antonio Buzzolla (1815-1871), now forgotten except by music historians, was a musical prodigy who played five instruments by the age of seventeen and was hired...continue...

Busoni: Cello and Piano Works / Paccagnella, Alberti

1 CD / Tactus / 2007-03-13

Works: Ferruccio Busoni: Kultaselle, variations (10) on a Finnish Folksong for cello & piano, KiV 237; Serenata, for cello & piano in G minor, Op. 34, KiV 196; Märchen, for cello & piano, KiV 123; Vals...
Performers: Alberti, Sabrina; Paccagnella, Luca

The renown today of the double name "Bach-Busoni" is the fruit of what was a continuous and painstaking labor of revision, elaboration, and transcription of...continue...

Martucci: Chamber Vocal Music / Onorati, Prayer

1 CD / Tactus / 2007-03-13

Works: Giuseppe Martucci: La canzone dei ricordi; Songs (6) for voice & piano, Op. 68; Sogno d'amore, for voice & piano; Sogno di morte, for voice & piano; Songs (3) for voice & piano, Op. 84; Romanza, for ...
Performers: Onorati, Chiarastella; Prayer, Luisa

A welcome addition to the catalogue of vocal music by Giuseppe Martucci (1856-1909), the first nineteenth-century Italian composer not to specialize in opera-although he did...continue...

Martucci, Sgambati: Opere per violino e pianoforte / Braga

1 CD / Tactus / 2006-09-12

Works: Giuseppe Martucci: Sonata for violin & piano, Op. 22; Melodia, for violin & piano; Pieces (3), for violin & piano, Op. 67; Giovanni Sgambati: Pieces (2) for violin & piano, Op. 24/SG 19; Gondoliera, ...
Performers: Braga, Luca; Pittau, Lucia

D. Liverani: Brani per clarinetto e pianoforte / Giuffredi

1 CD / Tactus / 2006-06-13

Works: Domenico Liverani: Chants réligieux from Rossini's Stabat Mater for clarinet & piano; Cavatina from Verdi's Traviata, for clarinet & piano; Duettino sulla canzone di Ronchetti Monteviti, for cla...
Performers: Giuffredi, Corrado; Modugno, Giuseppe Fausto

Domenico Liverani (1805-1877) was a famous clarinet player all over Europe. He was a close friend of Rossini, and created many arrangements for clarinet and...continue...

Sgambati: The Complete Piano Works Vol 4 / Caramiello, Siano

1 CD / Tactus / 2006-05-09

Works: Giovanni Sgambati: Concert Etudes (2) for piano, Op. 10; Introduction et Etude brillante (Réveil des Fées) by for piano in F minor (after Emile Purdent, Op.; Musica per concorso di pian...
Performers: Caramiello, Francesco; Siano, Filippo

Giovanni Sgambati (1841-1914) was another Italian composer who stuck to instrumental music. He was an admired pianist - a contemporary described him, "as well as...continue...

Golinelli: Piano Works / Giuseppe Fausto Modugno

1 CD / Tactus / 2005-01-04

Works: Stefano Golinelli: Due pensieri affettuosi; Preludes (24) for piano, Op. 69; Barcarola in fa diesis minore, Op. 35
Performers: Modugno, Giuseppe Fausto

Zanella: Opera cameristiche / Rogliano, Berthold, Alpi

1 CD / Tactus / 2004-01-04

Works: Amilcare Zanella: Poemetto, for violin & piano, Op. 76; Sonata for violin & piano in F sharp minor, Op. 71; Sonata for cello & piano in A major, Op. 72
Performers: Frieder Berthold; Marco Alpi; Rogliano, Marco

The true master of archaic imagery in early twentieth-century Italian music was Ermanno Wolf Ferrari (1876-1948). The Idillio Concertino Op. 15 for oboe (1932) and...continue...

Bottesini: Opere per contrabbasso e pianoforte / Ragghianti

1 CD / Tactus / 2003-05-06

Works: Giovanni Bottesini: Elegy no 2 in E minor "Romanza drammatica"; Allegretto capriccio à la Chopin; Tarantella for Double Bass and Piano in A minor; Capriccio di bravura; Melodie for Double Bass...
Performers: Mealli, Tiziano; Ragghianti, Gabriele

Respighi: Chamber & Keyboard Music / Windsor, Valli, et al

1 CD / Tactus / 2001-09-04

Works: Ottorino Respighi: Adagio con variazioni for Cello and Orchestra; Preludes (3) on Gregorian themes for Piano
Performers: Malferrari, Stefano; Valli, Mauro