Pizzetti, Ildebrando

Ildebrando Pizzetti: Canti della Stagione Alta; Tre Canzoni; Due Canti d'Amore; Preludio / Caiello, Windsor, Canino

1 CD / La Bottega Discantica / 2012-09-11

Works: Ildebrando Pizzetti: Canti della stagione alta; Songs (3) for voice & string quartet; Canti d'amore (2), for voice & piano; L'ombra, prelude for piano; Foglio d'Album, for piano
Performers: Ballista, Antonio; Caiello, Alda; Canino, Bruno; Windsor, Lorna
Conductors: Ballista, Antonio
Ensemble: Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali

Ildebrando Pizzetti was a multi-faceted figure: composer, teacher, critic, and indefatigable musical organizer. In his impressive catalog of works, his compositions for piano occupy only...continue...

Elementia (The Elements) - Choral works by Pizzetti, Schoenberg, Barber, Gorecki, Tippett, Webern, Stravinsky et al. / The Esoterics

2 CD / Terpsichore Records / 2012-08-28

Works: David Asplin: In nature's charm, for choir; Donald Skirvin: New world, for choir; Wheel of dreams, for choir; The delight song of Tsoai-talee, for choir; Cedar smoke and snowflake, for choir; Ildebra...
Performers: Aas, Erin; Anderson, Pam; Bailey, Becky; Brittsan, Jason; Burness, Meredith; Carroll, Skylar; Federici, Cathy; Flexner, Lisa; Galloway, Lane; Hitt, Tom; Jones, Scott; Maguire, Sean; O'Donoghue, Liz; ...
Conductors: Banks, Eric
Ensemble: The Esoterics

ELEMENTIA is a double CD set that encompasses some of the best works from The Esoterics' Season 2000 and features world premiere recordings of works...continue...

Penitentia - Choral works by Ildebrando Pizzetti; Francis Poulenc; Miklos Paszti; John Joubert et al. / The Esoterics

1 CD / Terpsichore Records / 2012-08-28

Works: Ildebrando Pizzetti: Composizioni corali (3), for chorus; Francis Poulenc: Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence, for chorus, FP 97; Bern Herbolsheimer: Seven Last Words; Geert D'Hollander: T...
Performers: Bæskens, Betsy; Froggét, Lorri; Hitt, Tom; Horlock, Keith; Hubbert, Gretchen; Iamar, Josh; Kaspar, Dustin; Reddaway, Janna; Stagg, Chris; Weber, Bruce; Yarnell, Kathea
Conductors: Banks, Eric

The Esoterics present PENITENTIA, a project featuring works of and on the Lenten liturgy by Poulenc, Pizzetti, d'Hollander, Herbolsheimer, and more. From literal depictions of...continue...

Secret World / Lieder by Pizzetti, Rihm, Liszt & Mahler / Christoph Pohl, baritone; Tobias Krampen, piano

1 CD / Genuin / 2012-01-31

Works: Ildebrando Pizzetti: Sonetti (3) del Petrarca, for voice & piano; Wolfgang Rihm: Späte Gedichte (4) von Friedrich Rückert, for voice & piano; Franz Liszt: Sonetti di Petrarca (3), song cycl...
Performers: Krampen, Tobias; Pohl, Christoph

A recital disc like this GENUIN release by baritone Christoph Pohl and pianist Tobias Krampen would have been called a "concept record" back in the...continue...
Recording information: Robert-Schumann-Saal, Düsseldorf, Germany (04/15/2011-04/17/2011)....continue...

Ildebrando Pizzetti: Complete Piano Works / Giancarlo Simonacci, piano

2 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2011-11-15

Works: Ildebrando Pizzetti: Romanza senza parole, for piano; Sogno, for piano; Poemetto Romantico, for piano; Foglio d'Album, for piano; Le Danze, for piano; Monte Morello sotto la luna, for piano; Da un Au...
Performers: Simonacci, Giancarlo

Pizzetti's (1880-1968) love of melody is quintessentially Italian. Many of his works are exquisite miniatures, with the exception of the large scale Sonata of 1943--an...continue...
Recording information: Faziolo Hall, Sacile, Italy (03/28/2011-03/29/2011)....continue...

Ildebrando Pizzetti: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 / Lajtha Quartet

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2011-08-30

Works: Ildebrando Pizzetti: Quartet for Strings no 1 in A major; Quartet for Strings no 2 in D major

Together with Casella, Malipiero and Respighi, Pizzetti was one of the leading composers of the generation of Italian composers born around 1880 (the so-called 'generation...continue...
Recording information: Festetich Castle, Budapest, Hungary (01/1995)....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...

Ildebrando Pizzetti: Sonatas for Piano & Violin

1 CD / Concerto / 2010-10-26

Works: Ildebrando Pizzetti: Sonata for violin & piano in A major; Sonata for cello & piano in F major
Performers: Miodini, Alberto
Conductors:
Ensemble: Trio di Parma

Recording information: Bartok Studio, Bernareggio, MI (04/06/2010-04/07/2010)....continue...

Eternal Light

1 CD / Gothic Records / 2010-10-26

Works: John Rutter: Hymn to the Creator of Light; Anthony J. Maglione: O Thou Great Power in Whom I Move, for clarinet & chorus; Mark Sirett: Veni Sancte Spiritus, for chorus; Cary Boyce: Ave Maria, for cho...
Performers: Grymes, Christopher; Gustafson, Christine; Ulffers, Christopher
Conductors: Bara, Daniel

This release features new music for instrumental soloists including the premier recording of Egil Hovland's lushly romantic setting of Agnus Dei for bassoon and choir....continue...
Recording information: East Carolina University (05/12/2009-05/14/2009)....continue...

Ildebrando Pizzetti: Trio In La; Tre Canti / Trio di Parma

1 CD / Concerto / 2010-07-27

Works: Ildebrando Pizzetti: Trio for Piano and Strings in A major; Canti (3) for cello or violin & piano; Aria, for violin & piano ("a Mario Corti"); Colloquio, for violin & piano; Aria, for violin & piano ...
Performers: Bronzi, Enrico; Miodini, Alberto; Rabaglia, Ivan
Conductors:
Ensemble: Trio di Parma

"Enrico Bronzi is a superb cellist and makes a winning case for the sonata...This piece needs to be programmed often; it's one of the best...continue...
Recording information: Bartok Studio, Bernareggio, Milan, Italy (04/06/2010-04/07/2010)....continue...

Ildebrando Pizzetti: Piano Trio; Violin Sonata

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2010-07-27

Works: Ildebrando Pizzetti: Trio for Piano and Strings in A major; Sonata for violin & piano in A major; Canti (3) for cello or violin & piano
Performers: Ertungealp, Alpaslan; Fenyo, Laszlo; Rasonyi, Leila

Ildebrando Pizzetti was hailed in 1921 by The Musical Times as "doubtlessly the greatest musician in Italy today". Composed in 1918–19, the powerful Violin Sonata...continue...
Recording information: Hungaroton Studios in Rottenbiller Street, Budapest, Hu (1994-05-17_1994-05-18&1994-)....continue...

Pizzetti, Howells, Puccini: Requiem

1 CD / Ars Musici / 2010-04-27

Works: Ildebrando Pizzetti: Messa di Requiem, for chorus; Herbert Howells: Requiem; Giacomo Puccini: Requiem for soprano, tenor, bass & organ (or harmonium)
Performers: Ehlers, Rolf; Heilmann, Heike; Ratzel, Matthias
Conductors: Toll, Winfried
Ensemble: Camerata Vocale Freiburg

2010 release. Over the course of many centuries of music history the Requiem (or Requiem Mass) has been the subject of numerous musical settings including...continue...

Ildebrando Pizzetti: Canti Della Stagione Alta / Oleg Caetani, Boris Statsenko, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2009-08-25

Works: Ildebrando Pizzetti: Fedra; Canti della stagione alta; Cabiria - Film Music
Performers: Caetani, Susanna Stefani; Statsenko, Boris
Conductors: Caetani, Oleg
Ensemble: Robert Schumann Philharmonic

Together with Casella, Malipiero and Respighi, Pizzetti was one of the leading Italian composers of the generation of Italian composers born around 1880 (the so-called...continue...

Pizzetti: Orchestral Works / Vänskä, BBC Symphony Orchestra

1 CD / Hyperion / 2009-05-12

Works: Ildebrando Pizzetti: Rondò veneziano, for orchestra; Preludio a un altro giorno, for orchestra; Preludii (3) per l'Edipo re di Sofocle; La Pisanelle, suite from the incidental music
Conductors: Vänskä, Osmo

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...continue...

Pizzetti: Concerto dell'estate, La festa delle Panatenee, etc / Michailidis, Thessaloniki State SO

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2009-04-28

Works: Ildebrando Pizzetti: Concerto dell'estate; Preludii (3) per l'Edipo re di Sofocle; Clitennestra; La festa delle Panatenee
Performers: Dimopoulos, Nikolos; Kitsos, Dimitris; Papadopoulos, Kostas; Papanas, Simos
Conductors: Michailidis, Myron
Ensemble: Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra

This is the first recording in more than 40 years of Ildebrando Pizzetti's masterpiece, 'Concerto dell'estate' (Summer Concerto), described by the composer as a 'pastoral...continue...

In the Beginning / Nethsingha, Gloucester Cathedral Choir

1 CD / Avie Records / 2009-04-01

Works: Benjamin Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb, festival cantata for trumpet, ATB soloists, chorus & organ, Op. 30; Ildebrando Pizzetti: Composizioni corali (3), for chorus; Gerald Finzi: Lo, the full, final ...
Performers: Birchall, James; Bourne, Frances; Gilchrist, James [Tenor Vocal]; Houssart, Robert; Smith, Allan
Conductors: Nethsingha, Andrew
Ensemble: Gloucester Cathedral Choir

The works on 'In the Beginning', the debut Avie release by the Gloucester Cathedral Choir, were all written in the shadow or the aftermath of...continue...

Requiem - We Are So Lightly Here / Conspirare

2 Super Audio CD / Harmonia Mundi / 2009-03-10

Works: Herbert Howells: Requiem; Eric Whitacre: Songs of Faith (3); Donald Grantham: We remember them; Ildebrando Pizzetti: Messa di Requiem, for chorus; Stephen Paulus: The Road Home, for women's chorus; E...
Performers: Dent, Karl [Tenor Vocal]; Farwig, David; Givens, Melissa; Olson, Jennie; Revering, Nina

"if you missed [the first] release, don't hesitate to consider this, especially for the Howells, Pizzetti, and Whitacre. The recording was made in the famed...continue...

Cesare Valletti sings Mozart, Scarlatti, Schubert, Berlioz, etc

2 CD / Testament / 2008-06-10

Works: Giuseppe Sarti: Giulio Sabino; Alessandro Stradella: Le gare dell'amor eroico; Alessandro Scarlatti: Work(s); Il Pirro e Demetrio; Il Sedecia, re di Gerusalemme; Il Flavio; George Frederick Handel: M...
Performers: Taubman, Leo; Valletti, Cesare [Tenor Vocals]

The leading operatic 'tenore di grazia' of the 1950s and '60s, Cesare Valletti (1922-2000) was also an incomparable interpreter of songs. A few years after...continue...

Ildebrando Pizzetti: Concerto pour Piano; Rondo Veneziano

1 CD / Accord Import / 2008-03-25

Works: Ildebrando Pizzetti: Canti della stagione alta; Rondò veneziano, for orchestra
Performers: Ciccolini, Aldo [Piano]
Conductors: Layer, Friedemann

Legendary Treasures - Enrico Mainardi Vol 1

3 CD / Doremi / 2008-03-11

Works: Johannes Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano no 1 in E minor, Op. 38; Sonata for Cello and Piano no 2 in F major, Op. 99; Antonio Vivaldi: Sonata no 3 in A minor (Largo, Allegro, Largo, Allegro); Bene...
Performers: Kniestadt, Georg; Mainardi, Enrico; Reits, Karl; Zecchi, Carlo
Conductors: Zecchi, Carlo; Beinum, Eduard Van; Giulini, Carlo Maria; Strauss, Richard

Despite their qualities, the orchestral works of Bohuslav Martinu are little known. Walter Weller, the prestigious conductor of the National Orchestra of Belgium, reveals here...continue...

Ottorini Respighi, Ildebrando Pizetti: Sonatas for violin & piano

1 CD / Artek / 2005-08-16

Works: Ottorino Respighi: Sonata for violin & piano, in B minor, P. 110; Ildebrando Pizzetti: Sonata for violin & piano in A major
Performers: Koenig, Robert; Oliveira, Elmar

Pizzetti: Fedra / Sanzogno, Bertocci, Fortunati, et al

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2005-05-10

Works: Ildebrando Pizzetti: Fedra
Performers: Bertocci, Aldo; Brandolini, Silvana; Fortunati, Mercedes; Maionica, Silvio [Bass vocals]; Palombini, Vittoria; Ronchini, Bruna; Vocals], Anselmo Colzani [Baritone; Zaccaria, Nicola [Bass Vocal]
Conductors: Sanzogno, Nino
Ensemble: Italian Radio Chorus

Ildebrando Pizzetti was a composer whose operas avoid the lush lyricism of the Romantic Italian school in favor of a style reminiscent both of the...continue...

Matthew Polenzani - Live at the Verbier Festival

1 CD / Video Artists International / 2004-11-02

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Les soirées musicales; Ildebrando Pizzetti: I pastori; Carlo Pedrotti: Giulietta mia, serenata; Franz Schubert: Frühlingsglaube, D 686/Op. 20 no 2; Schwanengesang, D 95...
Performers: Polenzani, Matthew; Vignoles, Roger [Piano]

Pizzetti: Tre Canti, Cello Sonata/Seeli Toivio, Ivo Varbanov

1 CD / Gega New / 2004-01-01

Works: Ildebrando Pizzetti: Canti (3) for Violin/Cello and Piano; Sonata for Cello and Piano in F major
Performers: Toivio, Seeli; Varbanov, Ivo

Pizzetti: Assassinio nella Cattedrale / Gavazzeni, Gencer

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2003-10-07

Works: Ildebrando Pizzetti: Assassinio nella Cattedrale, opera
Performers: Bertocci, Aldo; Campi, Enrico; Carturan, Gabriella; Cassinelli, Antonio; Cormanni, Adolfo; Dondi, Dino; Gencer, Leyla; Maionica, Silvio [Bass vocals]; Ortica, Mario; Pelizzoni, Rinaldo; Puglisi, Lino...
Conductors: Gavazzeni, Gianandrea
Ensemble: Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus

Pizzetti, successor to Respighi at the St. Cecilia Academy in Rome, wrote in a style reminiscent both of the Impressionists and of late Reniaissance or...continue...

The Stars Were Shining / Borgioli, Case, Crooks, et al

1 CD / Symposium / 2002-10-01

Works: Lauritz Melchior: Reminiscences of Covent Garden; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; Anonymous: La Fiesta, opera; Charles Wakefield Cadman: The Song of the Nile, for voice & orchestra; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: ...
Performers: Borgioili, Dino; Crooks, Richard; de Luca, Giuseppe; Hackett, Charles Francis; La Forge, Frank; Pattiera, Tino; Peerce, Jan [Tenor Vocals]; Roselle, Anne; Salvarezza, Antonio; Tibbett, Lawrence; Voca...
Conductors: Erede, Alberto

Debut Series - Toscanini - My First Record

1 CD / Fono / 2002-01-08

Works: Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Jules Massenet: Suite for Orchestra no 4 "Scènes pittoresques"; Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale; Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 1 in C major, Op. 21; Symphony ...
Performers: Guarrera, Frank; Nelli, Herva; Simionato, Giulietta
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra

XX Century Italian Piano Music - Alfano, et al / Sandiford

1 CD / Bongiovanni / 2000-04-15

Works: Franco Alfano: Pieces (4) for piano, Op. 3/1, Mazurka; Pieces (4) for piano, Op. 3/2, Romanzetta; Pieces (4) for piano, Op. 3/3, Fable; Pieces (4) for piano, Op. 3/4, Causerie; Nostalgie for piano; I...
Performers: Sandiford, Riccardo

Ildebrando Pizzetti: Canti Della Stagione Alta / Oleg Caetani, Boris Statsenko, et al

1 CD / Marco Polo / 1999-05-01

Works: Ildebrando Pizzetti: Fedra; Canti della stagione alta; Cabiria - Film Music
Performers: Statsenko, Boris
Conductors: Caetani, Oleg
Ensemble: Chemnitz Opera Chorus; Robert Schumann Philharmonic

Martin: Mass, Passacaille; Pizzetti / O'Donnell, et al

1 CD / Hyperion / 1998-02-01

Works: Frank Martin: Mass for Double Chorus; Passacaille, version for organ; Requiem for soloists, chorus, orchestra & organ; Ildebrando Pizzetti: De profundis, for chorus
Performers: O'Donnell, James [Organ]

'For connoisseurs of choral music this is an essential buy. Outstanding performances of two rarely heard 20th-century masterpieces' (Classic CD)

'Magnificent' (Gramophone)

'Gloriously ...continue...

The Singing Apes - Sandstrom, Britten, Holst, Weill, et al

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 1996-11-04

Works: Jan Sandström: The Singing Apes of Khao Yai; Benjamin Britten: Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard; Anonymous: Song of the Blacksmith; English Traditional: The Turtle Dove; Samuel Barber:...
Performers: Alin, Folke; Brolund, Walter; Persson, Olle; Pettersson, Jorgen; Ronnlund, Johnny
Conductors: Sund, Robert
Ensemble: Orphei Drängar; Uppsala Chamber Soloists

Arturo Toscanini - The First Recordings 1920-1926

1 CD / Symposium / 1996-05-01

Works: Ottorino Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances, Set 1; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony no 39 in E flat major, K 543; Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 1 in C major, Op. 21; Symphony no 5 in C minor, Op...
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo

Pizzetti: Missa di Requiem, etc / Stefan Parkman

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1991-11-01

Works: Ildebrando Pizzetti: Messa di Requiem, for chorus; Composizioni corali (3), for chorus; Composizioni corali (2), for chorus
Conductors: Parkman, Stefan
Ensemble: Danish National Radio Choir