Search - Alfredo Piatti, Luigi Dallapiccola :: Alfredo Piatti: Cappricci per Violoncello solo Op. 22 e Op. 25

Alfredo Piatti (1822-1901), close friend of Giuseppe Verdi, was to the cello in the nineteenth century what Paganini was to the violin. Piatti knew everything there was to know about the cello, and influenced all the schools of cello playing for the following hundred years. His two sets of cello Caprices are not simple technical studies, but also show decorative imagination and eloquent harmony that give them the quality of small masterpieces. In a provocative stroke of original programming, Andrea Noferini concludes this album of Romantic solo cello music with a masterpiece of the twelve-tone school in the work by Luigi Dallapiccola, Italy's most famous follower of Arnold Schoenberg. Dallapiccola's Ciaccona, Intermezzo e Adagio was commissioned by famous cellist Gaspar Cassadò.