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Roberto Prosseda

War Silence w/London Phil - Nir Kabaretti

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Release Date: January 31, 2025

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Mendelssohn's Piano concerto n. 1 op. 25 with Enescu Philharmonic
1 Fano Andante e Allegro con fuoco - 1 Andante  
2 2 Allegro con fuoco  
3 Dallapiccola Piccolo Concerto per Muriel Couvreux - 1 Pastorale Andantino, un  
4 2 Girotondo Allegro ma no  
5 3 Ripresa Moderato, con p  
6 4 Cadenza Allegro, molto  
7 5 Notturno Lentamente  
8 6 Finale Allegro non trop  
9 Omizzolo Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra - 1 Allegro  
10 2 Andante maestoso  
11 3 Allegro  
12 Carrara War Silence - 1 Trenches  
13 2 Solitudes  
14 3 Fruts  
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The Italian piano concerto is a genre largely absent from the standard repertoire. In War Silence, pianist Roberto Prosseda helps to remedy this neglect in a programme consisting of four rare Italian piano concertos. Written between 1900 and 2015, concertos by Guido Alberto Fano, Luigi Dallapiccola, Silvio Omizzolo and Cristian Carrara will be new to most listeners, and two are world premiere recordings. The London Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Nir Kabaretti.

From the late-Romantic Andante e Allegro con fuoco by Guido Alberto Fano and Dallapiccola’s early wartime concerto to the final, much later work by Cristian Carrara, this album provides a welcome overview of the piano concerto in 20th- and 21st-century Italy. All four works benefit from the playing of Roberto Prosseda, whose talents as a champion of Italian contemporary music and of undiscovered piano music make him the ideal advocate.

  • Roberto Prosseda's 'War Silence.' Excellent performances and first-rate Hyperion sonics / Music Web International
    Posted At: March 17, 2025
    Music Web International's Richard Hanlon writes…..As conductor Nir Kabaretti argues in a brief preface, Italy has exerted a huge influence upon the history and development of Western classical music, but its contribution to the piano concerto genre is much less obvious. This disc is the result of pianist Roberto Prosseda’s proposal: four little-known concertos. It seems a tad dubious in the first place to s...

  • Roberto Prosseda w/conductor Nir Kabaretti, deliver refreshing new works on 'War Silence' / Classical Music Sentinel
    Posted At: March 1, 2025
    Classical Music Sentinel's Jean-Yves Duperron writes………Quick ... off the top of your head, name a well-known Piano Concerto by an Italian composer in ten seconds or less! Stuck for an answer? Forget about it, it seems most people can't come up with an answer either. Busoni's large scale, five-movement Piano Concerto comes to mind as its been recorded a few times, but even it never achieved household-name st...

  • Roberto Prosseda - War Silence w/London Phil. led by Nir Kabaretti is the 98.7WFMT: Featured New Release
    Posted At: February 1, 2025
    Roberto Prosseda, born in Latina in 1975, is one of the most active and versatile Italian musicians on the current international scene. He gained international fame following his Decca CDs dedicated to the piano music of Felix Mendelssohn, which he recorded in full on 10 CDs (2005 - 2014), published in a single box set in 2017 ("Mendelssohn Complete Piano Works") . Over the past twenty years Roberto ha...

  • Roberto Prosseda set to open SOIMumbai autumn season / mid-day.com
    Posted At: July 6, 2019

    When you step in for a western classical concert, chances are you will be in the midst of perfection. For, classical musicians are ine­­v­i­tably striving for perfection, gi­ven the strict diktats of their ge­nre of choice. And when we're talking about Italian pianist and composer Roberto Prosseda, then it gets even more interesting, not only because of his unique to­uch a...

  • Roberto Prosseda's Mendelssohn Piano Concertos is WFMT: Featured New Release
    Posted At: March 16, 2019

    In a multi-year project, pianist Robert Prosseda has been recording all of Mendelssohn's piano works for the Decca label. His project continues on the orchestral front with this album of the Piano Concertos No. 1 and 2 and Rondo brillant. He is accompanied by the Residentie Orchestra of The Hague, led by Jan Willem de Vriend, principal conductor of the orchestra. The album also includes a superb reading ...

  • WCMU, Mt. Pleasant MI is "Happy to debut 'Mendelssohn Project' with Roberto Prosseda"
    Posted At: March 6, 2019

    Roberto Prosseda continues his Mendelssohn project on the orchestral front with this ambitious recording of Piano Concerts No. 1 and 2 and of the Rondò Brillant op.29. He is accompanied by the Residentie Orkest The Hague, a historical Dutch orchestra founded in 1904 that in the course of its activity has collaborated with great composers (Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Max R...

  • Roberto Prosseda's 'Mozart Fantasia in C minor, K475' makes this week's GRAMOPHONE: Listening Room
    Posted At: February 23, 2019

    Roberto Prosseda closes the Mozart sonatas series with not equal tuning. Is there really any need for yet another recording of Mozart's sonatas? Is it still possible to say something new when playing these compositions while maintaining respect for the score and for the composer's indications? If Mozart were alive today, would he prefer to perform his sonatas on a fortepiano of the time or on a modern pi...

  • Roberto Prosseda brings his musical mastery to UCLA / Hollywood SOAPBOX Q&A
    Posted At: February 21, 2019

    Roberto Prosseda, the celebrated pianist known for his solo work and extensive playing with world-renowned orchestras, will bring his musical mastery to the Jan Popper Theater at the University of California, Los Angeles, tonight; Thursday, Feb. 21. Prosseda is a master interpreter of the catalog of Felix Mendelssohn, having recorded the composer's complete piano works over the course of 10 years for Dec...

  • Roberto Prosseda presents a recital and masterclass at UCLA's 'Abell Piano Masters Series' / KMozart Arts Report
    Posted At: February 21, 2019

    One of the most exciting and innovative pianists in the world today; Roberto Prosseda, presents a mini-recital on February 21 in UCLA's Jan Popper Theater, with music by Mozart, Schubert and Mendelssohn. Following the recital, the renowned Italian pianist will teach three of UCLA's piano students in a masterclass. Currently, Prosseda continues his Mendelssohn project on the orchestral fr...

  • Roberto Prosseda - Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos 1&2 makes hi-finews 'album choice'
    Posted At: February 19, 2019

    Roberto Prosseda, Residentie Orkest The Hague/Jan Willem de Vriend Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2; Rondò Brillant; Overture The Hebrides (96kHz/24-bit, FLAC)  The Italian pianist made his 2009 debut (with Chailly) in Mendelssohn's incomplete Third Piano Concerto and went on to record all of the solo piano works for Decca – this programme with the Hague orchestra and ...

  • Roberto Prosseda set for Horowitz Piano Series / Yale Daily News
    Posted At: February 13, 2019

    With the increasing role of technology in today's music world, computer-generated music and compressed audio files can take precedence over sitting down at a concert to enjoy a live performance. In one of Italian classical pianist Roberto Prosseda's educational projects, he performs side-by-side concerts with a robot pianist - named Teo Tronico - in order to stress the differences between lifeless perfec...

  • Roberto Prosseda - Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos 1&2 makes stereophile 'Records to Die For 2019'
    Posted At: February 6, 2019

    Bert van der Wolf of Northstar Recording, producer of many wonderful albums for Channel Classics and other labels, now has a license to release on his website, www.spiritofturtle.com, the projects he records for Decca "in all the High Resolution versions that I have available." I hope his model will lead to the release of more hi-rez multichannel recordings from major labels. Equally important, these...

  • Roberto Prosseda set for 'Horowitz Piano Series' Q&A's with Yale University School of Music
    Posted At: February 5, 2019

    The legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz chose to leave his papers to Yale University upon his death in 1989. Today, Yale honors his legacy through the Horowitz Piano Series, which brings many of the world's great keyboard artists to Yale and presents the distinguished pianists of the Yale faculty. Pianist Roberto Prosseda who Gramophone magazine exclaimed; "has a fiery and fluent technique", wi...

  • Outspoken Mendelssohn specialist; Roberto Prosseda releases the Piano Concertos Nos. 1&2
    Posted At: February 2, 2019

    In a ten-year project, pianist Roberto Prosseda recorded all of Mendelssohn's piano works for Decca and successfully presented them in concerts around the world during this period. Thus, the Italian pianist is regarded as an outspoken Mendelssohn specialist of our time, which can now be comprehended on the new download with the Mendelssohn piano works with orchestral accompaniment via this high-resol...

  • Roberto Prosseda: Mendelssohn - Kleine Fuge MWV U 96 makes iTunes 'Classical A-List'
    Posted At: February 1, 2019

    After combing through countless releases each week, iTunes editors select their favorites for The A-List: Classical-the best new recordings from across the genre. Roberto Prosseda's Mendelssohn - Kleine Fuge MWV U 96 (1838) on Decca makes the The A-List: Classical. The track was released digitally worldwide on February 1, 2019, as a recent discovery from Prosseda's Complete Piano Works box w...

  • Roberto Prosseda Charles Gounod - Piano Works is the WFMT: Featured New Release
    Posted At: July 16, 2018

    In celebration of the 200th birthday of French composer Charles Gounod, Roberto Prosseda has released a collection of rarely heard piano works by the composer who is mostly remembered for his work on the opera stage. Gounod was an amateur pianist in matters of technique, but he excelled at accompanying himself singing his own melodies. He composed about 40 piano pieces in all, and this collection of a nu...

  • Roberto Prosseda: Charles Gounod - Piano Works is IPR 'Featured New Release'
    Posted At: May 31, 2018

    2018 is the bicentennial of the birth of the French composer Charles Gounod. Best known for his operas such as "Faust" and "Roméo et Juliette," Gounod also composed masses, symphonies and piano pieces. A new album by Roberto Prosseda celebrates Gounod's works for piano, including some that have never been recorded before.  The most famous of Gounod's piano works is his "Ave Maria,...
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