Piano Concerto, La Canzone dei Ricordi : Coggi, Pasini, La Vecchia / Rome Symphony Orchestra

GIUSEPPE MARTUCCI (1856-1909)
Complete Orchestral Music 3

Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 40
La canzone dei ricordi (arr. for voice and orchestra)

Gesualdo Coggi, piano
Silvia Pasini, mezzo-soprano
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma
Francesco La Vecchia, conductor

Recorded in the Auditorium Conciliazione-Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma Studios,
16th-18th October 2007, 17th-20th January 2008 and 2nd-3rd March 2008

This third disc in Naxos's Martucci Edition, comprising the complete orchestral works, continues with the First Piano Concerto which, while indebted to Chopin and Mendelssohn and prefiguring Rachmaninov, nonetheless has its own expressive immediacy. By turns sensuous and serene, nostalgic and intensely yearning, The Song of Remembrance is a rare example of a song cycle for voice and orchestra composed in nineteenth-century Italy. Volumes 1 and 2 of the Naxos Martucci Edition are available on 8.570929 and 8.570930. ( NAXOS )