Ottorino Respighi: Complete Piano Music, Volume Two

Respighi’s orchestral works are some of the most popular in the mainstream repertoire. His output of piano music, by contrast, is as good as unknown, and this Toccata Classics series will be the first-ever to present it all: original works and transcriptions alike, for solo piano, piano four hands and two pianos. The prentice works on this second volume of solo works reveal a Respighi with roots in the high-Romantic past of Schumann, Chopin and Brahms, but they also show the first signs of his later interest in the Italian pre-Baroque.

Catalogue No: TOCC0605
EAN/UPC: 5060113446053
Release Date: 06.08.2021
Composer: Ottorino Respighi
Artists: Giovanna Gatto

Tracklist:

Sonata in A minor, P004b (1896)
1 – I Allegro moderato
2 – II Andantino
3 – III Allegro vivace

Fuga reale a tre voci in C major, P023a (1898)*

4 – Fuga reale a 3 voci in C major, P023a

Presto in F major, P004d (1896)*

5 – Presto in F major, P004d

Allegro da concerto in B minor, P010 (1896)
6 – Allegro da concerto in B minor, P010

Suite No. 1 in G major, P022 (1898)
7 – I Vivace
8 – II Tema
9 – III Sarabanda
10 – IV Allegro con brio
11 – VI Presto

Scherzo in B flat major, P004c (1886)*
12 – Scherzo in B flat major, P004c

Preludio con fuoco in B flat minor, P023 (1898)
13 – Preludio con fuoco in B flat minor, P023

Sei pezzi per pianoforte, P044 (1903–5)

14 – No. 1 Valse caressante: Tempo lento di valzer
15 – No. 2 Canone: Andantino
16 – No. 3 Notturno: Lento
17 – No. 4 Minuetto
18 – No. 5 Studio: Presto
19 – No. 6 Intermezzo-Serenata: Andante calmo

*FIRST RECORDINGS