Malipiero: Chamber Music

Riccardo Malipiero (1914-2003) was an Italian composer, pianist, critic and music educator. He studied at the Milan and Turin Conservatory, later he pursued further studies with his uncle Gian Francesco Malipiero.

Malipiero's early works were composed in a free atonality. In 1945 he began using a twelve-tone technique in his compositions, becoming one of the pioneers of that technique in Italy. In 1949 he organized the First Congress of twelve-tone music in Milan, which was attended by such famous composers as John Cage, Luigi Dallapiccola, Karl Amadeus Hartmann and Bruno Maderna.

This new recording presents his Piano Trio as well as works for viola and piano, violin and piano and cello solo. The music is highly charged and expressive, passionate, alternating violent and lyrical sections of great power and beauty: a discovery!

Played by the Italian Rest Ensemble, specialized in the performance and recording of contemporary chamber music.