“That is why it is remarkable that he [Respighi Ed.] wrote so well and so intelligently for the instrument. Even when he sounds furious as in a piece marked ‘tempestuoso’ full of tremolandi, Gatto plays it exemplarily and she completed…
This second album […] certainly does say something about Giovanna Gatto’s great pianistic gifts, because I really cannot imagine a better advocate for this music. Technically meticulous, highly imaginative, warm and singing, and with an excellent feel for melodic lines…
At the Château de Pourtalès, programs are not improvised. …They are thought out and rethought, to offer the public rare gems from repertoires that have been performed so many times, seen from a perspective of novelty.Imagine by the Brahmsgesellschaft, with…
Ottorino Respighi Complete piano music, vol. 1, vol.2 Giovanna Gatto Toccata, TOCC0405, TOCC0605 With each new discovery in music archives, we rejoice that the music of a forgotten composer is brought to life and given a second chance. But how…
Respighi Complete Piano Music II includes a previously unknown sonata, only recently published, and a number of works from the composer’s youth, some of which find completion by pianist Gatto herself. The major contribution lies in the Piano Sonata in…
[it] “Oltre alla musica accattivante, vi aspettano due interpreti femminili, che sicuramente faranno sentire parlare di loro in futuro”. “Il duo Emerald Ghost, formato dalla soprano Lucy De Butts e dalla pianista Giovanna Gatto, lavora insieme dal 2019 e ha…
“There is ample chance also here for Ms. Gatto to demonstrate her lovely singing tone in the playing, especially in the more difficult-sounding passages around three minutes in.” “There are more lovely scrunchy harmonies here, especially in the middle voicings…
RESPIGHI: COMPLETE PIANO MUSIC VOLUME 2 Giovanna Gatto, piano/Toccata Classics Admirers of the massively talented Italian composer Respighi are often keen to move beyond the familiar pieces (such as the stunning Roman Trilogy), and these subtle but interesting piano pieces…
Complete Piano Music, Volume One and Volume 2 by Ottorino Respighi, by Giovanna Gatto on the Toccata Classics label. A discovery! – Michel Dutrieue >> Read the full article in Dutch <<
Respighi’s Piano Sonata of 1897/98 was not discovered until the 1980s. A student work, the second movement is beautifully nocturnal with a Busonian slant, giving way to a sprightly, again somewhat Busonian, finale. More expansive than Scherbakov (Naxos), Gatto finds…