Rossini Complete Piano Edition, Vol 3
A lack of refinement from Giacometti but Sollini’s panache carries him through
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Composer or Director: Gioachino Rossini
Genre:
Instrumental
Label: Channel Classics
Magazine Review Date: 1/2007
Media Format: Super Audio CD
Media Runtime: 75
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: CCSSA24106
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 8, 'Album de château', Movement: Prélude prétentieux: C minor |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Gioachino Rossini, Composer Paolo Giacometti, Piano |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 8, 'Album de château', Movement: Spéciment de mon temps: A flat |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Gioachino Rossini, Composer Paolo Giacometti, Piano |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 8, 'Album de château', Movement: Valse anti-dansante: F |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Gioachino Rossini, Composer Paolo Giacometti, Piano |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 8, 'Album de château', Movement: Prélude semipastorale: A |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Gioachino Rossini, Composer Paolo Giacometti, Piano |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 8, 'Album de château', Movement: Tarantelle pur sang (avec Traversée de la procesinor |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Gioachino Rossini, Composer Paolo Giacometti, Piano |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 8, 'Album de château', Movement: Un rêve: B minor |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Gioachino Rossini, Composer Paolo Giacometti, Piano |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 8, 'Album de château', Movement: Prélude soi-disant dramatique: F sharp |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Gioachino Rossini, Composer Paolo Giacometti, Piano |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 8, 'Album de château', Movement: Spécimen de l'avenir: E flat |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Gioachino Rossini, Composer Paolo Giacometti, Piano |
Composer or Director: Gioachino Rossini
Genre:
Instrumental
Label: Chandos
Magazine Review Date: 1/2007
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 66
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: CHAN10387
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Waltz |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Gioachino Rossini, Composer Marco Sollini, Piano |
| Moderato |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Gioachino Rossini, Composer Marco Sollini, Piano |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 5, 'Album pour les enfants adolescents', Movement: Première Communion, E flat |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Gioachino Rossini, Composer Marco Sollini, Piano |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 5, 'Album pour les enfants adolescents', Movement: Thème naîf et variations idem, G |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Gioachino Rossini, Composer Marco Sollini, Piano |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 5, 'Album pour les enfants adolescents', Movement: Saltarello à italienne, A flat |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Gioachino Rossini, Composer Marco Sollini, Piano |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 5, 'Album pour les enfants adolescents', Movement: Prélude moresque, E minor |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Gioachino Rossini, Composer Marco Sollini, Piano |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 5, 'Album pour les enfants adolescents', Movement: Valse lugubre, C |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Gioachino Rossini, Composer Marco Sollini, Piano |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 5, 'Album pour les enfants adolescents', Movement: Impromptu anodin, E flat |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Gioachino Rossini, Composer Marco Sollini, Piano |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 5, 'Album pour les enfants adolescents', Movement: L'innocence italienne La candeur française, A mi |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Gioachino Rossini, Composer Marco Sollini, Piano |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 5, 'Album pour les enfants adolescents', Movement: Prélude convulsif, C |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Gioachino Rossini, Composer Marco Sollini, Piano |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 5, 'Album pour les enfants adolescents', Movement: La lagune de Venise à l'expiration de l'annéeat |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Gioachino Rossini, Composer Marco Sollini, Piano |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 5, 'Album pour les enfants adolescents', Movement: Ouf! les petits pois, B |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Gioachino Rossini, Composer Marco Sollini, Piano |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 5, 'Album pour les enfants adolescents', Movement: Un sauté, D |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Gioachino Rossini, Composer Marco Sollini, Piano |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 5, 'Album pour les enfants adolescents', Movement: Hachis romantique, A minor |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Gioachino Rossini, Composer Marco Sollini, Piano |
Author: Richard Osborne
The third volume of Marco Sollini’s eight-part survey of the piano volumes of Rossini’s Sins of Old Age is given over to Book 5, “Album for adolescent children”. The titles of these volumes are largely diversionary but the contents were assembled with some care by Rossini. Irrespective of whether he envisaged the individual volumes being played “through”, his skills as an anthologiser are clear enough.
It remains to be seen how Chandos and Sollini will deal with the 12-item “Album de château”, which cannot be fitted onto a single CD. Paolo Giacometti’s latest volume is given over to the eight items from the album left over from the previous CD (Vol 6, A/04). This splitting up of the album obscures its principal point, which is to contrast time past (“Spécimen de l’Ancien Régime”, No 1), time present (“Spécimen de mon temps”, No 6), and time future (“Spécimen de l’avenir”, a Liszt parody among other things, No 12). Not that a two-CD set devoted to the “Album de château” would have encouraged me to invest in Giacometti and his 1858 Erard. The playing often seems clumsy and unrefined – the last thing you need with Rossini, whose own playing, according to Saint-Saëns, was “perfection itself”: light-toned and sparely pedalled, yet capable of considerable sensuous beauty.
Sollini is not an especially graceful pianist either but his playing, colourful and robust, has qualities of relish and panache which carry him through. He delivers the “Valse lugubre” with passion and gives blazing accounts of the “Prélude convulsif” (where Rossini seems to be having a certain amount of fun at Beethoven’s expense) and the far from anodyne “Impromptu anodin”. At the same time, he captures to near perfection the brooding melancholy of “La Lagune de Venise à l’expiration de l’année 1861!!”.
It remains to be seen how Chandos and Sollini will deal with the 12-item “Album de château”, which cannot be fitted onto a single CD. Paolo Giacometti’s latest volume is given over to the eight items from the album left over from the previous CD (Vol 6, A/04). This splitting up of the album obscures its principal point, which is to contrast time past (“Spécimen de l’Ancien Régime”, No 1), time present (“Spécimen de mon temps”, No 6), and time future (“Spécimen de l’avenir”, a Liszt parody among other things, No 12). Not that a two-CD set devoted to the “Album de château” would have encouraged me to invest in Giacometti and his 1858 Erard. The playing often seems clumsy and unrefined – the last thing you need with Rossini, whose own playing, according to Saint-Saëns, was “perfection itself”: light-toned and sparely pedalled, yet capable of considerable sensuous beauty.
Sollini is not an especially graceful pianist either but his playing, colourful and robust, has qualities of relish and panache which carry him through. He delivers the “Valse lugubre” with passion and gives blazing accounts of the “Prélude convulsif” (where Rossini seems to be having a certain amount of fun at Beethoven’s expense) and the far from anodyne “Impromptu anodin”. At the same time, he captures to near perfection the brooding melancholy of “La Lagune de Venise à l’expiration de l’année 1861!!”.
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