Mario Stefano Tonda, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia - Petrassi: Concertos for Orchestra Nos. 7 & 8, Sonata da camera (2025) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Concerto for Orchestra No. 7: I. Prologo
02. Concerto for Orchestra No. 7: II. Primo
03. Concerto for Orchestra No. 7: III. Secondo
04. Concerto for Orchestra No. 7: IV. Terzo
05. Concerto for Orchestra No. 7: V. Quarto
06. Concerto for Orchestra No. 7: VI. Epilogo
07. Concerto for Orchestra No. 8: I. Primo movimento
08. Concerto for Orchestra No. 8: II. Secondo movimento
09. Concerto for Orchestra No. 8: III. Terzo movimento
10. Sonata da camera: I. Mosso e scorrevole
11. Sonata da camera: II. Adagio
12. Sonata da camera: III. Vivace e grazioso

In the early 1960s Goffredo Petrassi’s idiom was almost indistinguishable from that of the Italian avant-garde. Completed in 1964, the Seventh Concerto evolves with mounting tension and a sense of underlying menace. The Eighth Concerto from 1972 was commissioned and premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. It is a substantial piece of outright virtuosity, with dissonance, trenchant dialogues and a fraught atmosphere. The much earlier Sonata da camera for harpsichord and ten instruments finds Petrassi poised between neo-Classicism and a more modernist direction. This is the third and final volume of Petrassi’s complete Concertos for Orchestra on Naxos (Nos. 1–3 are on 8.573702; Nos. 4–6 are on 8.573703).

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