Cascioli plays Beethoven & Schoenberg

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Sergey Prokofiev, Johann Sebastian Bach, Manuel de Falla, Ferruccio (Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto) Busoni, Claude Debussy, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Liszt, Domenico Scarlatti

Label: DG

Magazine Review Date: 7/1997

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 77

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: 453 422-2GH

Tracks:

Composition	Artist Credit
Toccata and Fugue	Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Orgel-Büchlein, Movement: Ich ruf' zu dir, BWV639	Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(6) Schübler Chorales, Movement: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV645	Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
(18) Chorales, 'Leipzig Chorales', Movement: ~	Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer
Sonatas for Keyboard Nos. 1-555, Movement: D (L415)	Domenico Scarlatti, Composer Domenico Scarlatti, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano
Sonatas for Keyboard Nos. 1-555, Movement: A minor (L429)	Domenico Scarlatti, Composer Domenico Scarlatti, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano
Sonatas for Keyboard Nos. 1-555, Movement: F minor (L175)	Domenico Scarlatti, Composer Domenico Scarlatti, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano
(Die) Ruinen von Athen, Movement: Turkish March	Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
Rondo a capriccio, 'Rage over a lost penny'	Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
Toccata	Franz Liszt, Composer Franz Liszt, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano
Indianische Tagebuch, Book I	Ferruccio (Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto) Busoni, Composer Ferruccio (Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto) Busoni, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano
Hommage à Haydn	Claude Debussy, Composer Claude Debussy, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano
(El) Amor brujo, Movement: Ritual Fire Dance	Manuel de Falla, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Manuel de Falla, Composer
(20) Visions fugitives, Movement: No. 3, Allegretto	Sergey Prokofiev, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
(20) Visions fugitives, Movement: No. 5, Molto giocoso	Sergey Prokofiev, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
(20) Visions fugitives, Movement: No. 6, Con eleganza	Sergey Prokofiev, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
(20) Visions fugitives, Movement: No. 9, Allegretto tranquillo	Sergey Prokofiev, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
(20) Visions fugitives, Movement: No. 10, Ridiculosamente	Sergey Prokofiev, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
(20) Visions fugitives, Movement: No. 11, Con vivacita	Sergey Prokofiev, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
(20) Visions fugitives, Movement: No. 14, Feroce	Sergey Prokofiev, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
(20) Visions fugitives, Movement: No. 16, Dolente	Sergey Prokofiev, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
(20) Visions fugitives, Movement: No. 17, Poetico	Sergey Prokofiev, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
(20) Visions fugitives, Movement: No. 18, Con una dolce lentezza	Sergey Prokofiev, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
(4) Pieces, Movement: No. 4, Suggestion diabolique (Temptation)	Sergey Prokofiev, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Sergey Prokofiev, Composer

Composer or Director: Arnold Schoenberg, Ludwig van Beethoven, Anton Webern, György Ligeti, Pierre Boulez

Label: DG

Magazine Review Date: 7/1997

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 78

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: 447 766-2GH

Tracks:

Composition	Artist Credit
Fantasia	Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
(32) Variations on an Original Theme	Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
(26) Bagatelles, Movement: No. 1 in G	Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
(26) Bagatelles, Movement: No. 2 in G minor	Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
(26) Bagatelles, Movement: No. 3 in E flat	Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
(26) Bagatelles, Movement: No. 4 in B minor	Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
(26) Bagatelles, Movement: No. 5 in G	Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
(26) Bagatelles, Movement: No. 6 in E flat	Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
Sonata Movement	Anton Webern, Composer Anton Webern, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano
Rondo	Anton Webern, Composer Anton Webern, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano
(5) Klavierstücke	Arnold Schoenberg, Composer Arnold Schoenberg, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano
Etudes, Book 1, Movement: Fanfares	György Ligeti, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano György Ligeti, Composer
Etudes, Book 1, Movement: Cordes à vide	György Ligeti, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano György Ligeti, Composer
Incises	Pierre Boulez, Composer Gianluca Cascioli, Piano Pierre Boulez, Composer

Author: Stephen Plaistow

If you came across these CDs in the racks and turned them over you might find the diversity of repertory bewildering – or perhaps attractive – but, whatever your taste, they are actually more interesting than simply calling-cards for yet another gifted young pianist. When Gianluca Cascioli received First Prize at the Umberto Micheli International Piano Competition in Milan in 1994 he was only 15. The jury included Luciano Berio, Elliott Carter, Charles Rosen, Louis Lortie and Maurizio Pollini, among other luminaries, and it was indeed a competition to stand out from the general run in that it required the participants to demonstrate a breadth of ability by performing in each round a work by Beethoven as well as several demanding modern works. Pierre Boulez wrote Incises

specially for the competition, and in a note in the booklet to the CD which includes it he commends Cascioli as an exceptional talent.
The musical personality is already persuasive. The contents of the discs may appear to be bits and bobs, but in fact each is rather well planned and you may find yourself listening through to the greater part of them in sequence, as I did, one track encouraging continuation with the next. The list of items may look like clever stuff but Cascioli has much to say about everything he plays. And there is something very likeable about his style: not at all didactic or over-insistent but inviting, unforced, sharing. There’s a feeling for phrase and harmonic shapes and a natural warmth that make the business of communication seem an easy affair. And always such good sound! Someone should have advised him though that, for a recording, pauses within a piece need to be shorter than in the concert-hall (in the Bach-Busoni Toccata and Fugue, for example, and between some of the sections of the Beethoven Fantasia). Nor are the Beethoven Bagatelles uniformly successful – the first is too slow. But neither CD prompts a tally of reservations, and against my expectations I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the avowedly more ‘popular’ second one. So I’m not inclined to recommend one over the other. The Hamburg studio recordings are first-class.
Another Pollini in the making, or at any rate a pianist in a not dissimilar mould? Do hear him.'

Cascioli plays Bach & Prokofiev

Toccata and Fugue

Orgel-Büchlein, Movement: Ich ruf' zu dir, BWV639

(6) Schübler Chorales, Movement: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV645

(18) Chorales, 'Leipzig Chorales', Movement: ~

Sonatas for Keyboard Nos. 1-555, Movement: D (L415)

Sonatas for Keyboard Nos. 1-555, Movement: A minor (L429)

Sonatas for Keyboard Nos. 1-555, Movement: F minor (L175)

(Die) Ruinen von Athen, Movement: Turkish March

Rondo a capriccio, 'Rage over a lost penny'

Toccata

Indianische Tagebuch, Book I

Hommage à Haydn

(El) Amor brujo, Movement: Ritual Fire Dance

(20) Visions fugitives, Movement: No. 3, Allegretto

(20) Visions fugitives, Movement: No. 5, Molto giocoso

(20) Visions fugitives, Movement: No. 6, Con eleganza

(20) Visions fugitives, Movement: No. 9, Allegretto tranquillo

(20) Visions fugitives, Movement: No. 10, Ridiculosamente

(20) Visions fugitives, Movement: No. 11, Con vivacita

(20) Visions fugitives, Movement: No. 14, Feroce

(20) Visions fugitives, Movement: No. 16, Dolente

(20) Visions fugitives, Movement: No. 17, Poetico

(20) Visions fugitives, Movement: No. 18, Con una dolce lentezza

(4) Pieces, Movement: No. 4, Suggestion diabolique (Temptation)