Manuela Custer, Raffaele Cortesi - Pilati: Liriche da camera (2025) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Dialogo di marionette
02. O passi sparsi
03. Nanna nanna
04. Lettera amirosa
05. 2 Belladettes: No. 1, Matin
06. 2 Belladettes: No. 2, Deux Fables
07. Mare
08. 3 Canti napoletani: No. 1, Calasciuncello
09. 3 Canti napoletani: No. 2, Canzone a dispetto
10. 3 Canti napoletani: No. 3, Bella, si moro
11. 2 Epigrammi: No. 1, Che bella cosa
12. 2 Epigrammi: No. 2, Magnammo, amice mieie
13. Lunella
14. Sonata No. 14 Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare
15. 2 Madrigali del Guarini: No. 1, Natale dell' amante
16. 2 Madrigali del Guarini: No. 2, Core in farfalla
17. Echi di Napoli: No. 1, Riccio riccio ricciolà
18. Echi di Napoli: No. 2, 'O vico
19. Echi di Napoli: No. 3, Serenata
20. Echi di Napoli: No. 4, Palummella de Francia
21. Echi di Napoli: No. 5, Divuzzione
22. Echi di Napoli: No. 6, Chi dice
23. Echi di Napoli: No. 7, Palazzo d'ammore
24. Echi di Napoli: No. 8, Tammurriata
25. La tartaruga
26. Amore



Mario Pilati was born in Naples on 16 October 1903. His life was very short, intense and troubled. Together with his siblings, he was introduced as a child into the study of music, as was the custom in Neapolitan upper-middle-class families. He immediately showed a great talent as a pianist and an overflowing creativeness: at the age of 13 he had already decided that music was to be his profession. His father attempted to thwart his artistic calling by making him enrol in a technical school, but, with the help of his mother, he managed to go on with his musical studies: at the early age of 20 he took a diploma with honours in composition at the Conservatorio S. Pietro a Majella of Naples, under the guidance of Antonio Savasta. He immediately looked for a job, in order to become independent of his family: his father not only disapproved of his musical career, but also never accepted his engagement with Antonietta Margiotta, whom he married in 1928 and with whom he had three daughters, Annamaria, Laura and Giovanna. The award-winning specialists Manuela Custer and Raffaele Cortesi (already protagonists of the recent recording Liriche su testi di Dante, TC840003) are the interpreters of the rediscovery of the vocal chamber music of the brilliant Neapolitan composer.

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