Pennisi: Complete Works for Solo Piano Stefano Cascioli

• Francesco Pennisi (1934 - 2000): 6 pezzi brevi for Piano:
• 1 Pennisi: 6 pezzi brevi for Piano: No. 1, Preludio francese 01:56
• 2 Pennisi: 6 pezzi brevi for Piano: No. 2, Berlesque 01:47
• 3 Pennisi: 6 pezzi brevi for Piano: No. 3, Valzer 02:18
• 4 Pennisi: 6 pezzi brevi for Piano: No. 4, Romanza cauta 02:05
• 5 Pennisi: 6 pezzi brevi for Piano: No. 5, Marcetta 00:47
• 6 Pennisi: 6 pezzi brevi for Piano: No. 6, Small-Rag 01:23
• Francesco Pennisi:
• 7 Pennisi: Musica for Piano 02:49
• 8 Pennisi: Afterthoughts 02:16
• 9 Pennisi: Promenade for Piano 03:14
• 10 Pennisi: Frammento 99 00:46
• 11 Pennisi: Canzone da sonare 01:59
• 12 Pennisi: In un foglio 01:17
• 13 Pennisi: Deragliamento: Raccolta dei frammenti in una trascrizione per pianoforte 03:55
• 14 Pennisi: Frammento naxiota 00:46
• 15 Pennisi: Quasi cantabile 03:13
• 16 Pennisi: Ch'è bella chista via 01:52
• 17 Pennisi: Una pastorale etnea 02:10
• 18 Pennisi: Arabesco augurale per Carlo Marinelli 01:29
• 19 Pennisi: Una lettura deviata 01:44
• 20 Pennisi: Le fantôme de la valse oubliée 02:50
• 21 Pennisi: Corale di felicitazione con i Signori Scotese per aver essi finalmente trovato casa 02:04
• 22 Pennisi: Lo strano frammento trovato a Tandil 02:38
• 23 Pennisi: Maybe Blues 02:59
• 24 Pennisi: Na nuttata tanta ranni 01:34
• Total Runtime 49:51

Info for Pennisi: Complete Works for Solo Piano

This recording contains Francesco Pennisi’s (Acireale, 11 February 1934 – Rome, 8 October 2000) complete works for solo piano, according to the latest catalogue. The piano compositions have rarely been performed and studied even less frequently, for many reasons. They are concise and liberated at first sight from a serious commitment to composition and open to ‘other’ dimensions compared to his main production, since they unfold playfully, almost with nostalgia. This recording not only has the merit of restoring Pennisi’s piano repertoire to its full entirety for the first time, but it illustrates its due importance in the composer’s active pursuit of an underlying texture of echoes, sounds, and resonances. Pennisi’s piano pieces were composed in the period between the late 50s (Sei pezzi brevi, 1957) and the year 2000 (Na nuttata tanta ranni. Un canto natalizio etneo trascritto dalla memoria, 2000). Pennisi is one of the leading exponents of Roman avant-garde music in the period following the Second World War. Initially selftaught, influenced by Dallapiccola’s music, Pennisi moved to Rome to study composition with Robert W. Mann, while attending university. He was one of the founders of the Nuova Consonanza Association, which is still a reference point for the promotion of new Italian music. Not only was Pennisi a composer, but he was also a graphic artist, painter, set designer and writer.

Stefano Cascioli, piano

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