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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Pietro Scarpini

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Format: CD
Label: Rhine Classics
UPC: 4713106280141
Catnr: RH 014
Release date: 02 August 2019
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Rhine Classics
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4713106280141
Catalogue number
RH 014
Release date
02 August 2019
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A recital by Piero Scarpini, the pianist who put his art at the service of 20th Century music, is always a source of stimulating modernity, even when he sits at the piano and plays masterpieces of the past. Those who are familiar with Scarpini and his personal conflict with contemporary music, know in fact, that his Bach. his Mozart and his Beethoven can not be solely “some works” selected at random from any pianist’s repertoire, but they will be always “that” Bach. "that" Mozaert and “that” Beethoven, which for their interpreter are the most innovative and someway “contemporary”.
Ein Rezital von Piero Scarpini, dem Pianisten, der seine Kunst in den Dienst der Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts stellt, ist immer eine Quelle anregender Modernität, auch wenn er am Klavier sitzt und Meisterwerke der Vergangenheit spielt. Diejenigen, die mit Scarpini und seinem persönlichen Konflikt mit der zeitgenössischen Musik vertraut sind, wissen in der Tat, dass sein Bach. sein Mozart und sein Beethoven nicht nur " irgendwelche Werke " sein können, die zufällig aus dem Repertoire eines jeden Pianisten ausgewählt wurden, sondern sie werden immer " dieser " Bach sein, "der" Mozart und "der" Beethoven, die für ihren Interpreten die innovativsten und irgendwie "zeitgenössischsten" sind.

Artist(s)

Pietro Scarpini (piano)

Scarpini was Born in Rome in 1911. His mother was a pianist and his father an army officer. He graduated in 1937 from the Accademia di Santa Cecilia where his teachers had been Alfredo Casella for piano, Ottorino Respighi for composition, Alessandro Bustini for conducting, and Fernando Germani for organ. At his graduation concert in 1937, Scarpini was to conduct the orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in the Teatro Adriano in Rome, but ended up replacing the indisposed soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto in E flat major, K271. The success of this performance led to an offer of three concerto performances with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at the Philharmonie in Berlin. The reviews referred to ‘an eminent pianist’ and ‘a...
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Scarpini was Born in Rome in 1911. His mother was a pianist and his father an army officer. He graduated in 1937 from the Accademia di Santa Cecilia where his teachers had been Alfredo Casella for piano, Ottorino Respighi for composition, Alessandro Bustini for conducting, and Fernando Germani for organ.

At his graduation concert in 1937, Scarpini was to conduct the orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in the Teatro Adriano in Rome, but ended up replacing the indisposed soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto in E flat major, K271. The success of this performance led to an offer of three concerto performances with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at the Philharmonie in Berlin. The reviews referred to ‘an eminent pianist’ and ‘a new star in the international sky of pianists’. Thereafter began an international career, first taking Scarpini to Budapest, Berlin and Lübeck for recitals in 1938, where critics described him as ‘a soloist of the highest stature whose playing is exceptional’. During the war Scarpini was appointed to the Parma Conservatory on Casella’s recommendation but requested a transfer to the Cherubini Conservatory in Florence a year later. At the 1948 Salzburg Festival Scarpini played a work which he would champion throughout his career: Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire. He played the work for the BBC on his first visit to London the following year and continued to add contemporary works and those of his compatriot, Ferruccio Busoni, to his repertoire. Scarpini’s concerto repertoire list for 1950 includes works by Busoni, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Bartók, Schoenberg, Dallapiccola, Casella, Petrassi and Ghedini, as well as the more familiar ones by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov.

Indeed, after the war his programmes reflected his interests in contemporary music and the music of Busoni, but he would also programme major works of Bach such as the Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080 and both books of Das Wohltemperierte Klavier.

A performance of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in Geneva in 1950 prompted Alfred Cortot to write Scarpini a letter of appreciation in which he said, ‘…c’est une joie pour un musician de mon âge de voir se lever, à l’horizon de son art, une personnalité telle que la vôtre!,’ (‘it's a joy for a musician of my age to see a personality such as yours rise on the horizon of his art!’) and when Furtwängler toured Italy in the years after the war, Scarpini had the opportunity of playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 58 with him in Rome during January 1952.

After meeting Scarpini in Florence, conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos invited him to perform in New York in 1954 where they gave three performances of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 16 – a rarely heard work at that date. His health began to fail in 1956 while on another tour of the United States but the following year he performed the new piano concerto by Roger Sessions in Europe. Reducing his concert schedule in the early 1960s, Scarpini performed Bach’s Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080 at universities throughout Italy and performed Das Wohltemperierte Klavier complete at the 1960 York Festival in Britain.

After his retirement from the concert platform in the late 1960s Scarpini continued to give masterclasses but a heart operation in 1982 resulted in him only being able to play the piano at home. He died in Florence in November 1997.

During his career Scarpini performed with many great conductors such as Wilhelm Furtwängler, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Pierre Monteux, Hans Rosbaud, Hermann Scherchen, Ferenc Fricsay and Karl Böhm. He also worked with Hindemith in his youth and had a lifelong friendship with composer Luigi Dallapiccola.

Scarpini was that rare combination: a highly intellectual pianist with a virtuoso technique.
He was a dignified and solitary person with a serious approach to music, single-mindedly following the course of his artistic convictions without compromise.
© 2018 FHR


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Composer(s)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose actual name is Joannes Chrysotomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a composer, pianist, violinist and conductor from the classical period, born in Salzburg. Mozart was a child prodigy. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. Along with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven, Mozart is considered to be one of the most influential composers of all of music's history. Within the classical tradition, he was able to develop new musical concepts which left an everlasting impression on all the composers that came after him. Together with Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven he is part of the First Viennese School.  At 17, Mozart was engaged as...
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose actual name is Joannes Chrysotomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a composer, pianist, violinist and conductor from the classical period, born in Salzburg. Mozart was a child prodigy. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. Along with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven, Mozart is considered to be one of the most influential composers of all of music's history. Within the classical tradition, he was able to develop new musical concepts which left an everlasting impression on all the composers that came after him. Together with Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven he is part of the First Viennese School. At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position. From 1763 he traveled with his family through all of Europe for three years and from 1769 he traveled to Italy and France with his father Leopold after which he took residence in Paris. On July 3rd, 1778, his mother passed away and after a short stay in Munich with the Weber family, his father urged him to return to Salzburg, where he was once again hired by the Bishop. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his death.


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Disc #1
01.
Piano Concerto No.25 in C major, K.503 (1784/86): 1. Allegro maestoso
17:51
(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Pietro Scarpini
02.
Piano Concerto No.25 in C major, K.503 (1784/86): 2. Andante
07:30
(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Pietro Scarpini
03.
Piano Concerto No.25 in C major, K.503 (1784/86): 3. Allegretto
08:26
(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Pietro Scarpini
04.
Piano Concerto No.27 in B-flat major, K.595 (1791): 1. Allegro
13:47
(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Pietro Scarpini
05.
Piano Concerto No.27 in B-flat major, K.595 (1791): 2. Larghetto
08:36
(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Pietro Scarpini
06.
Piano Concerto No.27 in B-flat major, K.595 (1791): 3. Allegretto
08:31
(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Pietro Scarpini

Disc #2
01.
Piano Sonata No.12 in F major, K.332/300k (1778): 1. Allegro
07:18
(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Pietro Scarpini
02.
Piano Sonata No.12 in F major, K.332/300k (1778): 2. Adagio
04:39
(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Pietro Scarpini
03.
Piano Sonata No.12 in F major, K.332/300k (1778): 3. Allegro assai
05:08
(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Pietro Scarpini
04.
Piano Sonata No.14 in C minor, K.457 (1784): 1. Allegro
06:53
(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Pietro Scarpini
05.
Piano Sonata No.14 in C minor, K.457 (1784): 2. Adagio cantabile
07:17
(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Pietro Scarpini
06.
Piano Sonata No.14 in C minor, K.457 (1784): 3. Molto allegro
05:35
(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Pietro Scarpini
07.
Rondo? No.1 in D major, K.485 (1786)
05:40
(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Pietro Scarpini
08.
Adagio in B minor, K.540 (1786)
08:12
(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Pietro Scarpini
09.
Adagio in B minor, K.540 (1786): Variations: I-V
06:32
(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Pietro Scarpini
10.
Andante (Orgelstu?ck fu?r eine Uhr) in F major, K.616 (1791): 1st Scarpini version
06:59
(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Pietro Scarpini
11.
Andante (Orgelstu?ck fu?r eine Uhr) in F major, K.616 (1791): 2nd Scarpini version
06:58
(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Pietro Scarpini
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