Gian Francesco Malipiero - Complete Piano Music, Vol. 3 (Aldo Orvieto)

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Composer: Gian Francesco Malipiero

• Preludio
• Sarabanda
• 6 Morceaux
• Poemi asolani
• La siesta
• Le tombeau de Debussy: No. 3. Hommage à Claude Debussy
• Cavalcate
• Il tarlo
• Ricercar toccando

Aldo Orvieto, piano

Date: 2023

Label: Stradivarius

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Gian Francesco Malipiero (18 March 1882 – 1 August 1973) was an Italian composer and music scholar. Educated in Vienna, Venice and Bologna, he was later influenced by modernist trends in Paris. A key figure in 20th-century Italian music alongside Alfredo Casella, Malipiero rejected verismo and revived interest in pre-Romantic Italian music. His major works include operas, symphonies, chamber music and cantatas. As a scholar, he edited the complete works of Monteverdi and contributed to editions of Vivaldi, Corelli and Frescobaldi, significantly shaping the modern understanding of early Italian music.

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Aldo Orvieto (born 1961 in Padua) is an Italian pianist and scholar. A graduate of the Venice Conservatory, he studied under Aldo Ciccolini and has recorded extensively, with over 90 albums focusing on 20th-century music for labels like Naxos and ASV. He has performed with major orchestras and ensembles, such as the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI and Ensemble 2e2m, and co-founded the Ex Novo Ensemble in 1979. Known for premiering works by contemporary composers, he has won the Abbiati Prize (2019) and the Isang Yun Prize (2020). Orvieto has also published several musicological essays.

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