Short Cuts: 50 Piano Pieces
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Short Cuts: 50 Piano Pieces
Antonio Ballista (piano)
[ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 4 December 2020
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A special and intriguing concept: ultra-short (one minute plus) piano pieces by 50 composers, encompassing 3 centuries, starting with Rameau and ending with Sciarrino, Crumb, Ligeti and Berio.
Much can be said with few words, and so much can be expressed in a few notes; some composers struggled with large forms but could say a deep truth in one page.
Italian pianist Antonio Ballista's colourful career includes the great classical repertoire, but he has also explored worlds such as those of ragtime, Italian and American popular songs, rock, and soundtrack music for the cinema. He has worked with Abbado, Bertini, Boulez, Brüggen, Chailly, Maderna and Muti, and played with orchestras such as BBC Symphony, the Concertgebouw, Israel Philharmonic, Filarmonica della Scala
Tracks:
CD1
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU 1683-1764
1 IV. 'La Poule' (from Suite in G RCT6)
J.S. BACH 1685-1750 arr. Myra Hess
2 Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Chorale from Cantata BWV147)
JOSEPH HAYDN 1732-1809
3 Allegretto in G Hob:XVII:10 for piano
(after Hob:XIX:27 for mechanical clock)
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART 1756-1791
4 Marche funèbre del Sig.r Maestro Contrapunto K453a
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 1770-1827
5 Bagatelle in C WoO54 'Lustig-Traurig'
FRANZ SCHUBERT 1797-1828
6 Waltz in G D844 'Albumblatt'
CARL CZERNY 1791-1857
7 'Bear Dance' (Finale from Valses di bravura Op.35)
GIOACHINO ROSSINI 1792-1868
8 Prélude (from Péchés de vieillesse Vol. XIII 'Musique anodine')
ROBERT SCHUMANN 1810-1856
9 Theme in E flat RSW:Anh:F39
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN 1810-1849
10 Prélude in A flat Op. posth. 'À mon ami Pierre Wolff'
JOHANNES BRAHMS 1833-1897
11 Sarabande in A minor WoO5/1
FRANZ LISZT 1811-1886
12 Bagatelle sans tonalité S216a
GIUSEPPE VERDI 1813-1901
13 Waltz in F 1'47
RICHARD WAGNER 1813-1883
14 Albumblatt
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS 1835-1921 transcr. Leopold Godowsky
15 XIII. Le Cygne (from Le Carnaval des animaux)
CHARLES GOUNOD 1818-1893
16 Marche funèbre d'une marionnette
JULES MASSENET 1842-1912
17 V. Mélodie: Lento ma non troppo 'Elégie jouée dans les Erynnies'
(from 10 Pièces de genre Op.10)
EMMANUEL CHABRIER 1841-1894
18 Ballabile
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY 1840-1893
19 Berceuse: Andante mosso (from 18 Morceaux Op.87)
GABRIEL FAURÉ 1845-1924
20 Allégresse in C (from 8 Pièces brèves Op.84)
EDVARD GRIEG 1843-1907
21 Arietta (from Lyric Pieces Op.12)
GEORGES BIZET 1838-1875
22 Danse bohémienne (from Scènes bohémiennes)
LEOPOLD GODOWSKY 1870-1938
23 Alt Wien (from Triakontameron)
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN 1872-1915
24 Poème fantasque
MANUEL DE FALLA 1876-1946
25 Danza del molinero (Farruca from El sombrero de tres picos)
CD2
CLAUDE DEBUSSY 1862-1918
1 D'un cahier d'esquisses: Très lent
DARIUS MILHAUD 1892-1974
2 Ipanema (from Saudades do Brasil Op.67)
GEORGE GERSHWIN 1875-1937
3 Promenade ('Walking the Dog' sequence from Shall We Dance? )
MAURICE RAVEL 1875-1937
4 Prélude M65
IGOR STRAVINSKY 1882-1971
5 Piano-Rag-Music
GIACOMO PUCCINI 1858-1924
6 Foglio d'album
FRANCIS POULENC 1899-1963
7 Mouvement perpétuel No.1
PAUL HINDEMITH 1895-1963
8 V. Ragtime (from 1922 Suite für Klavier Op.26)
SERGEI PROKOFIEV 1891-1953
9 March (from The Love for Three Oranges)
OLIVIER MESSIAEN 1908-1992
10 III. Le Nombre léger (from 8 Préludes)
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN 1928-2007
11 Klavierstück III
JEAN FRANÇAIX 1912-1997
12 III. Hommage à Domenico Scarlatti (Couronné par Beethoven
et par Mendelssohn, sous le regard complice de Debussy)
(from La Promenade d'un musicologue éclectique)
LA MONTE YOUNG b.1935
13 Composition 1960 #7
NICCOLÒ CASTIGLIONI 1932-1996
14 VI. La fontanella di Ganna (from Come io passo l'estate)
MORTON FELDMAN 1926-1987
15 Intermission 6
HECTOR VILLA-LOBOS 1887-1959
16 VII. O polichinelo (from A prole do bebê, Book I)
PAOLO CASTALDI b.1930
17 Caro babbo
GYÖRGY LIGETI 1923-2006
18 Allegro con spirito (from Musica ricercata)
JOHN CAGE 1912-1992
19 Totem Ancestor for prepared piano
LUCIANO BERIO 1925-2003
20 Erdenklavier
JOHN ADAMS 1947
21 China Gates
BRUNO CANINO b.1935
22 Un microritratto
SALVATORE SCIARRINO b.1947
23 Anamorfosi
ALESSANDRO LUCCHETTI b.1958
24 The Grey Veil
GEORGE CRUMB b.1929
25 VII. Tora! Tora! Tora! (Cadenza Apocalittica) [Scorpio] for amplified piano
(from Makrokosmos, Vol. II: Twelve Fantasy-Pieces after the Zodiac - Part 2)
