CAETANI: Piano Music [CD de audio] Alessandra Ammara and Caetani

Ballata op.9; Quattro Improvvisi op.9; Toccata op.9; Sonata op.3 - Born in an aristocratic family, Roffredo Caetani was a figlioccio of Franz Liszt and studied with Giovanni Sgambati, at his turn alleviated by the phenomenal ungherese virtuoso. Pianist of good talent, as composer Caetani scrisse soprattutto for his strument in a late romantic style characterized by the presence of frequent chromaticism and – from time to time – di complessi passaggi polifonici that evoke the image of Ferruccio Busoni. This album presents in first world registration a beautiful song by Caetani's work, from the Ballata dai toni profoundly dramatici ai quattro Improvvisi dai toni più leggeri and aproblematici and alla magnificent Sonata, which with its 43 minutes of duration is the sonata for pianoforte più longa e monumentale written by an Italian composer in the 19th century. In the complex, this apprezzabile album presents a series of operas of great interest in nell'ispirata interpretation by Alessandra Ammara, one of the finest Italian pianists in circulation, which the recent ones if è vista assegnare cinque stelle dall'autorevole rivista french Diapason per la sua splendida registration dedicated to the opera for pianoforte by Maurice Ravel. The booklet contains the biography of the performer and ampie notes from the cover of his author and his opera that is written in Italian and in English signed by a musicologist of great fame.