Cilea: Complete Piano Music

Download & Streams: https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Cil... Physical Purchase: https://www.brilliantclassics.com/art... Brilliant Classics’ Spotify: https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Spo... Spotify Playlist: Most Popular Piano Music https://brilliant-classics.lnk.to/Mos... Francesco Cilea may now be best remembered as a composer of durable, blood-and-thunder staples of the verismo operatic school such as Adriana Lecouvreur and L’Arlesiana, but he addressed himself to chamber and instrumental music at both the beginning and end of his long career. Conservative and unfailingly melodic as his chosen idiom was, it nonetheless evolved in the 66 years between student salon pieces such as the Tre piccoli pezzi of 1888 and the album-leaf of 1944. There have been a few surveys of Cilea’s piano music on record, but none as complete as this new recording from Pier Paolo Vincenzi, who has already won critical praise on Brilliant Classics for recordings of piano rarities. A Diabelli Variations album (BC94836) gathered all the composers who had initially responded to the Viennese publisher’s request for variations on his little waltz together with the late masterpiece of variation form eventually devised by Beethoven. Vincenzi has also recorded the complete piano music of Richard Wagner (BC94450) which drew this notice from Fanfare magazine: ‘Vincenzi has the kind of sparkling, clear Italian touch one often associates with Benedetti, Michelangeli, or, more recently, Luisi. His playing alternates between seriousness and sensuality, drama and joy, and the listener is with him every step of the way… [His] performances are the recommended ones. Composer Francesco Cilea Artist Pier Paolo Vincenzi piano Marco Gaggini piano 00:00:00 Tre piccoli pezzi: I. Melodia 00:01:54 Tre piccoli pezzi: II. Serenata 00:04:13 Tre piccoli pezzi: III. Danza 00:06:28 Chanson du rouet, Op. 4 00:09:04 Canto del mattino, Op. 5 00:12:17 La petite coquette – Air de danse, Op. 9 00:15:01 C’est toi que j’aime – Impromptu à la mazurka, Op. 10 00:17:50 Aria campestre 00:19:19 Flatterie, Op. 11 00:21:38 Mazurka, Op. 14 00:24:17 Badinage, Op. 15 00:26:28 Berceuse, Op. 20 00:28:37 Notturno, Op. 22 00:32:12 Seconda danza, Op. 26 00:33:53 Trois petits morceaux, Op. 28: I. Loin dans la mer 00:36:32 Trois petits morceaux, Op. 28: II. Feuille d’album 00:38:51 Trois petits morceaux, Op. 28: III. Pensée espagnole 00:40:32 Tre pezzi, Op. 29: I. Romanza 00:43:40 Tre pezzi, Op. 29: II. Scherzino 00:46:11 Tre pezzi, Op. 29: III. Barzelletta 00:48:59 Gocce di rugiada, Op. 33 00:51:49 Au village, Op. 34 00:53:37 A la mazurka, Op. 35 00:55:02 Valzer, Op. 36 00:56:51 Foglio d’album, Op. 41 00:58:51 Suite, Op. 42: I. Allegro 01:00:54 Suite, Op. 42: II. Sarabanda 01:04:30 Suite, Op. 42: III. Capriccio 01:07:56 Foglio d’album, Op. 41 01:09:54 Fuga reale 01:12:10 Tre pezzi, Op. 43: I. Verrà? 01:15:09 Tre pezzi, Op. 43: II. Acque correnti 01:17:19 Tre pezzi, Op. 43: III. Valle fiorita 01:21:15 Due pezzi: I. Risonanze nostalgiche 01:29:24 Due pezzi: II. Festa silana 01:33:19 Scherzo 01:37:57 Scherzando 01:41:09 Danza calabrese 01:45:05 Impromptu 01:48:20 Mazurka 01:49:55 Preludio 01:51:32 Vespero 01:54:35 Foglio d’album 01:56:14 Invocazione 01:58:51 Serenata a dispetto 02:00:52 Danza 02:04:41 Four Hands Music: Untitled in A Major 02:08:12 Four Hands Music: Chansonnette, Op. 31 02:10:14 Four Hands Music: Sentiment poétique 02:12:33 Four Hands Music: Amour joyeux, Op. 37 02:15:27 Idillio 02:18:40 Alla gavotte