Martucci Collection

A comprehensive collection of Giuseppe Martucci’s music, in stylish modern recordings by native Italian musicians. Composer: Giuseppe Martucci 🎵 Purchase or streaming (Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music): 💎 More Information: 🎬🎮 These tracks are available for sync licensing in videos, films, tv-shows, games, advertising and more. For more information and to request a license go to: An Italian Brahms is an unlikely idea, but it encapsulates a superficial acquaintance with the music of Giuseppe Martucci (1856-1909). Any listener curious to take a deeper dive into the richly Romantic melodies and impassioned large-scale structures of Martucci will find no better place to start than this survey of his major works in every instrumental genre. Martucci grew up in Naples as the son of a military bandmaster, and this background seems to have instilled in him a creative impulse to swim against the operatic tide of native composers, and focus his energies on writing instrumental music. He was an accomplished pianist, received with great enthusiasm on tours of France, Germany and England, and the tremendous sweep of his Piano Concerto loses nothing by comparison with far more familiar examples. Brought to life here by Alberto Miodini, the piano music, too, is intensely wrought, but it never loses a pre-eminence of melody which was Martucci’s heritage. In 1888 he conducted the Italian premiere of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde; his song-cycle La canzone dei Ricordi, written a year earlier, is the closest he came to translating the opera’s chromatic eroticism into his own music, and this box affords the opportunity to hear the piece in both its orchestral and piano versions; no less enlightening than (for example) the distinct versions of the Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss. CD10 collects Martucci’s other songs for soprano, such as the remarkable Pagine sparse of 1888. Other highlights of the set include Martucci’s deep investment in chamber music, resulting in piano trios, violin and cello sonatas, and a magnificently brooding Piano Quintet, again in the Brahmsian mould. Tracklist: Artists: Maria Semeraro (piano) & Quartetto Noferini; Roberto Noferini (violin I), Federico Parravicini (violin II), Anna Noferini (viola) & Andrea Noferini (cello) Piano Trio No. 1 in C Major, Op. 59: 0:00:00 I. Allegro giusto 0:13:41 II. Scherzo (Allegro molto) 0:21:30 III. Andante con moto 0:31:29 IV. Finale (Allegro risoluto) Piano Quintet in C Major, Op. 45: 0:39:17 I. Allegro giusto 0:51:09 II. Andante con moto 1:03:36 III. Scherzo (Allegro vivace) 1:10:42 IV. Finale (Allegro con brio) Piano Trio No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 62: 1:17:38 I. Allegro 1:34:05 II. Scherzo (Allegro molto) 1:44:47 III. Adagio 1:57:41 IV. Finale (Allegro vivace) 2:07:56 Momento musicale (Andante con moto) 2:11:20 Minuetto (Allegro) 3 Pieces of G.F. Haendel: 2:16:39 I. Minuetto (Moderato) 2:18:37 II. Musetta (Andante) 2:20:12 III. Gavotte (Allegro) Artists: Roberto Trainini (cello) & Massimiliano Ferrati (piano) Sonata in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 52: 2:21:43 I. Allegro giusto 2:34:54 II. Scherzo. Allegro molto – Trio. Allegretto 2:41:14 III. Intermezzo. Andantino flebile 2:45:06 IV. Allegro 3 Pezzi, Op. 69: 2:54:10 I. Moderato 3:03:35 II. Andante 3:13:04 III. Allegro 2 Romanze, Op. 72: 3:21:59 I. Andantino con moto 3:24:52 II. Moderato 3:28:55 Romanza: I. Allegretto Artist: Alberto Miodini (piano) 6 Pezzi, Op. 44: 3:32:16 I. Capriccio. Allegro risoluto 3:35:07 II. Pezzo fantastico. Allegro 3:41:03 III. Colore orientale. Tempo di marcia – Poco più mosso 3:51:16 IV. Barcarola. Andantino con moto – Animato 3:56:31 V. Notturno. Moderato, ma non troppo – Animato molto e con agitazione 4:01:44 VI. Tarantella. Allegro molto 4:08:07 Novella, Op. 50 4:19:24 Fantasia, Op. 51 2 Notturni, Op. 70: 4:31:23 I. Nocturne in G-Flat Major. Moderato 4:36:37 II. Nocturne in F-Sharp Minor. Andantino 👉 Social media links: Instagram: Facebook: TikTok: Spotify Playlists: Brilliant Classics Spotify: New Classical Releases: The Best of Bach: Most Popular Piano Music: Thank you for watching this video, we hope you enjoyed it! Don’t forget to like and share the video and subscribe. Visit our channel for other pieces by Martucci and more of the greatest composers. #Martucci #ChamberMusic #PianoWorks #ClassicalMusic #BrilliantClassics