WAR SILENCE - Rare Italian Piano Concertos

Guido Alberto Fano (1875 - 1961): 

Andante and Allegro con fuoco (1905)

Luigi Dallapiccola (1904 - 1975): 

Piccolo Concerto for Muriel Couvreux (1941)

Silvio Omizzolo (1905 - 1991): 

Piano Concerto (1960) 

Cristian Carrara (1977):

War Silence (2015)

Roberto Prosseda, piano

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Nir Kabaretti, conductor

From the late-Romantic Andante e Allegro con fuoco by Guido Alberto Fano and Dallapiccola’s early wartime concerto to the final, much later work by Cristian Carrara, this album provides a welcome overview of the piano concerto in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Italy. All four works benefit from the playing of Roberto Prosseda, whose talents as a champion of Italian contemporary music and of undiscovered piano music make him the ideal advocate.