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Following the success of the previous three volumes in Naxos’s Martucci Orchestral Edition (8570929, 8570930, 8570931), the fourth presents the Italian composer’s Piano Concerto No. 2, a spaciously Romantic work whose sweeping opening movement reaches a dramatic climax, setting the scene for a poignant Larghetto and a highly virtuosic finale.
The best known of Martucci’s later works, it made a considerable impression internationally when conducted by Anton Rubinstein, Toscanini, Weingartner and Mahler, often with the pianist-composer as soloist.
2009 marks the centenary of Martucci’s death
Giuseppe Martucci: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 66
I. Allegro giusto
II. Larghetto
III. Allegro con spirito
Giuseppe Martucci: Momento musicale e Minuetto (arr. for string orchestra)
Momento musicale e Minuetto (arr. for string orchestra)
Giuseppe Martucci: Novelletta, Op. 82, No. 2 (arr. for orchestra)
Novelletta, Op. 82, No. 2 (arr. for orchestra)
Giuseppe Martucci: Serenata, Op. 57, No. 2 (arr. for orchestra)
Serenata, Op. 57, No. 2 (arr. for orchestra)
Giuseppe Martucci: Colore orientale, Op. 44, No. 3 (arr. for orchestra)
Colore orientale, Op. 44, No. 3 (arr. for orchestra)
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I. Allegro giusto