Andrea Padova plays lo Muscio

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Release Date: 26th Jul 2019
Catalogue No: 95952
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 61 minutes

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Lo Muscio: Blue Prelude

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Andrea Padova (piano)

Lo Muscio: Night Song

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Andrea Padova (piano)

Lo Muscio: Blue Ostinato

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Lo Muscio: Ricercare, "Pienza Cathedral"

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Andrea Padova (piano)

Lo Muscio: Homage to Orvieto

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Andrea Padova (piano)

Homage to Orvieto: II. Ricercare cromatico, "Orvieto Cathedral"

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Lo Muscio: In Memoriam

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Andrea Padova (piano)

Lo Muscio: Gymnopédie No. 0

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Andrea Padova (piano)

Lo Muscio: La Lune Blanche

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Lo Muscio: Horizons (arr. M.L. Muscio for piano)

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Lo Muscio: Meditation on Horizons

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Andrea Padova (piano)

Lo Muscio: Medieval Melodies

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Andrea Padova (piano)

Medieval Melodies: No. 1, Theoden's Meditation

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Medieval Melodies: No. 2, The Knight of Rohan

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Lo Muscio: Gandalf and Galadriel

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Steve Hackett (guitar), Marco Lo Muscio (piano), Andrea Padova (piano)

Lo Muscio: The Book of a Vampire

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Andrea Padova (piano), Marco Lo Muscio (piano)

Lo Muscio: Vocalise No. 1, "To My Mother"

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Andrea Padova (piano), Steve Hackett (electric guitar)

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Born in 1971, Marco lo Muscio is an organist, pianist and composer who has performed on the great organs of Europe and the US. His own music been performed by the likes of Christopher Herrick, Thomas Trotter and David Briggs. This album focuses on another, more intimate side of his output. There are pieces dedicated to his mother and to the memory of his late father; tributes to both Debussy and Satie; meditations on literary themes from the work of J.R.R. Tolkien in a neo-medieval style; a pair of ricercari originally composed for organ, paying homage to Renaissanceera counterpoint; and to begin with Three American Preludes.

Composed in 2001, the first two of the preludes were also Lo Muscio’s first works intended for the piano. Their bluesy harmonies and ostinato bass lines are inspired by the playing of Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett. The third of them (from 2009) is a homage to Jarrett, but composed in the style of prog rock – an idiom that the organist adopted with such success that he began to work with the guitarist Steve Hackett, founder member of Genesis.

Since first meeting Hackett in 2008, Lo Muscio has made many transcriptions of prog rock classics (by Genesis and others) in a parallel career to his own compositions.

The two careers intersect here with Horizons, written by Hackett in 1972 for the Genesis album Foxtrot, and itself derived from the Prelude to Bach’s G major Cello Suite. In 2009 Lo Muscio composed his own Meditations on Horizons, which transforms elements of Hackett’s piece with a habanera rhythm.

Having established a career as a pianist with a speciality in the music of Bach (as winner of the 1995 J.S.Bach International Piano Competition), Andrea Padova has attracted international praise for his performances and recordings. His performance of the Goldberg Variation has won glowing encomia: The Washington Post wrote that he ‘conveys the sense of successfully exceeding the limits of human possibility.’ This is his debut recording on Brilliant Classics.

Andrea Padova plays lo Muscio

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