Bossi: Piano Trios

Marco Enrico Bossi was born in Salò in 1861 and died crossing the Atlantic on his way back from a highly successful concert tour in the United States. He was a composer of great personality whose thoroughly international outlook distinguished him from most of his Italian colleagues of his time.

Bossi was greatly admired by Verdi and Puccini, and as a concert organist and composer he was considered one of the foremost virtuosos of the period, along with his friends Cesar Franck and Camille Saint‐Saëns. His composition style is based on the abstract and "absolute" aesthetics of Hanslick and Brahms, concentrating on purely instrumental and nonrepresentational music, unlike most of his contemporaries, who wrote dramatic or programmatic music. In this he was of important influence on many of his students, including Malipiero and Ghedini.

This new recording presents first recordings of his two Piano Trios, full blooded and substantial works of great melodic and harmonic invention.

Excellent performance by the Italina Trio Arché.