Gian Francesco Malipiero - I Dialoghi

Gian Francesco MALIPIERO

I Dialoghi

Orchestra Nuova Filarmonía 

Domenico Molinini (Conductor)

Works on This Recording

1. Dialogo no 1 "con Manuel de Falla, in memoria" by Gian-Francesco Malipiero 

Conductor:  Domenico Molinini 

Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orchestra Nuova Filarmonía 

Period: 20th Century 

Written: 1955-1956; Italy 

2. Dialogo no 2 for 2 Pianos by Gian-Francesco Malipiero 

Period: 20th Century 

Written: 1955; Italy 

3. Dialogo no 3 for Voice and 2 Pianos "con Jacopone da Todi" by Gian-Francesco Malipiero 

Period: 20th Century 

Written: 1956; Italy 

4. Dialogo no 4 "per 5 strumenti a perdifiato" by Gian-Francesco Malipiero 

Conductor:  Domenico Molinini 

Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orchestra Nuova Filarmonía 

Period: 20th Century 

Written: 1956; Italy 

5. Dialogo no 5 "Quasi concerto" by Gian-Francesco Malipiero 

Conductor:  Domenico Molinini 

Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orchestra Nuova Filarmonía 

Period: 20th Century 

Written: 1956; Italy 

6. Dialogo no 6 "Quasi concerto" by Gian-Francesco Malipiero 

Conductor:  Domenico Molinini 

Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orchestra Nuova Filarmonía 

Period: 20th Century 

Written: 1956; Italy 

7. Dialogo no 7 for 2 Pianos and Orchestra by Gian-Francesco Malipiero 

Conductor:  Domenico Molinini 

Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orchestra Nuova Filarmonía 

Period: 20th Century 

Written: 1956; Italy 

8. L'ottavo dialogo: La morte di Socrate by Gian-Francesco Malipiero 

Conductor:  Domenico Molinini 

Orchestra/Ensemble:  Orchestra Nuova Filarmonía 

Period: 20th Century 

Written: 1957; Italy 

Malipiero, Manuel de Falla, and Alfredo Casella in Venice

I have greatly enjoyed recently the Symphonies of Malipiero, published in the mid-1990s by Marco Polo, which I found to be often compositions of striking originality (see my reviews of Gian Francesco Malipiero: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4; Sinfonia del mare,Gian Francesco Malipiero: Symphonies Nos. 5, 6, 8 & 11,Malipiero: Symphony No.7/Sinfonia in un tempo/Sinfonia per Antigenida and Malipiero: Symphonies No. 9 dell'ahime, No. 10 Atropo, Sinfonia dello Zodiaco), so I decided to investigate the present 2-CD set. The Dialoghi were composed between 1955 and 1957 and involve various instrumental groupings, from two pianos (Dialogo 2) and voice and two piano (Dialogo 3) to Concerto for Two Pianos (Dialogo 7) and Chamber Orchestra (Dialogo 1). The order of numbering does not exactly replicate the order of composition, which apparently followed a rising order of instrumental forces, from two pianos to large orchestra. The Dialogues are not all of concertante nature (only 5, 6 and 7 are real concertos, e.g. pitting a soloist against an orchestra, respectively the viola, harpsichord and two pianos) but as their title implies they all involve some kind of dialogue, either between instruments or between voice and instruments - sometimes it is even, apparently, a dialogue between Malipiero and others: fellow composer Manuel de Falla (Dialogo 1) or the Medieval Italian poet Iacopone da Todi (Dialogo 3).

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