1. Novellina
2. Sulle rive di Chiaja
3. Mio primo Valzer (arr. A.Seidel)*
4. Intermezzo
5. Pifferata di Natale
6. La Gavotta delle bambole
7. Un pensiero a San Francisco (Frammento)*
8. New world processional (Triumphal March)*
9. Tema di andante
10. La prima bagnante (Frammento)
11. Sunt lacrymae rerum!
12. Visione lirica (guardando la Santa Teresa del Bernini nella chiesa di S. M. della Vittoria a Roma)
13. Tomina. Intermezzo
Marco Sollini, piano
Symphony in F major for piano 4 hands* (original version by the composer)
14. Adagio. Allegro
15. Larghetto
16. Minuetto. Allegretto grazioso
17. Allegro molto
Marco Sollini – Salvatore Barbatano, piano 4 hands
*World first recording
The Sollini – Barbatano Piano Duo, already the protagonists of the two Concerto Classics productions dedicated to Gioachino Rossini (CD 2076 “Complete chamber music with piano”) and Sergei Rachmaninov (CD 2073 “Piano works for four and six hands”), performs, in its world premiere, Pietro Mascagni’s Symphony in F major for piano 4 hands, rediscovered in 2004 by Maestro Sollini himself.
With the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth, Mascagni’s 13 compositions for solo piano are also presented, including the first version of the Intermezzo from his celebrated Cavalleria Rusticana, and of which 3 are world premieres: “Mio primo Valzer” (with arrangement by Anton Seidel), a fragment of “Un pensiero a San Francisco” and “New world processional (Triumphal March).”
The introductory notes are by music critic and historian Cesare Orselli, a leading expert and connoisseur of Pietro Mascagni.
