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Roberto Prosseda:

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN - Sonatas Opus 2

Like most pianists, I have been playing Beethoven’s Sonatas since my earliest years of study, and have regularly performed many of them in concert over the past 30 years. However, I had not so far dared to approach the recording of Beethoven’s Sonatas, not least because of the huge number of recordings already made by many of the greatest performers.

Now, at the age of 50, and after having tackled and systematically recorded all of Mozart’s piano music, I have decided to approach the recording of Beethoven’s first sonatas. I consider them, from a certain point of view,
to be a natural continuation of the in-depth work I have already done with Mozart’s music.

Can something new, interesting and ‘true’ still be said about the interpretation of Beethoven’s sonatas? I believe so, provided we break out of the conventions created by the tradition of interpretation and discography, where a modern piano is used in 98% of cases. Therefore, I thought that the choice to record Beethoven on a historical instrument could also be a way of embarking on
a more individual interpretative investigation, free from the models we risk becoming accustomed to from listening to famous recordings on modern pianos. Having become more and more familiar with historical instruments in recent years, I have gradually come to realise that Beethoven’s music, and especially that of the early period, can sound much more meaningful and ‘sincere’ on the fortepiano than on the modern piano. It is not, of course, a question of having to recreate the sound Beethoven had in mind at any cost. After all, today, more than 200 years after the composition of Beethoven’s

Sonatas, our perception of sound has also changed: the same sound of a fortepiano certainly had a different effect on a Viennese listener in 1795, compared to a listener today.

Roberto Prosseda:

War Silence w/London Phil - Nir Kabaretti

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:

Charles Gounod - Piano Works

In celebration of the 200th birthday of French composer Charles Gounod, Roberto Prosseda releases Gounod: Piano Works. The album features a number of world premieres, including Sonata in E-flat Major for Piano Four Hands CG 617, as well as Gounod's well-known pieces such as "Méditation sur le 1er prélude de J. S. Bach (1852)," later known as "Ave Maria," and "Marche funèbre d'une marionette."

Roberto Prosseda:

Ennio Morricone Piano Music

One year following his passing, Universal Music Italy is proud to pay a respectful and creative tribute to Ennio Morricone - a true Maestro who, in a career spanning more than seven decades, and through a dual role of both composer and conductor, brought so much prestige through music to his beloved home country.

If it is true that Maestro Morricone enjoyed enormous popularity for the many soundtracks he wrote – work which bestowed upon him multiple prizes and accolades, including two ©Oscar Awards - then it is also true that he remained keen on writing  pieces of classical music designed and conceived for performance in traditional concert halls. These compositions are designed for a range of forces - from solo instruments to complex symphonic ensembles.

Roberto Prosseda:

Mendelssohn Piano Concerto 1&2

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 Reger, Maurice Ravel, Paul Hindemith) and famous conductors (Arturo Toscanini , Bruno Walter, Leonard Bernstein, Hans Knappertsbusch).

This recording was made under the baton of Jan Willem de Vriend, principal conductor of the orchestra, and also includes a superb reading of the Overture "The Hebrides" to complete the CD.