Mario Stefano Tonda, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia - Petrassi: Concertos for Orchestra Nos. 7 & 8, Sonata da camera (2025)
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Classical | Label: Naxos Records
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 234 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 129 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:55:30
Classical | Label: Naxos Records
In the early 1960s Goffredo Petrassi’s idiom was almost indistinguishable from that of the Italian avant-garde. Completed in 1964, the Seventh Concerto evolves with mounting tension and a sense of underlying menace. The Eighth Concerto from 1972 was commissioned and premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. It is a substantial piece of outright virtuosity, with dissonance, trenchant dialogues and a fraught atmosphere. The much earlier Sonata da camera for harpsichord and ten instruments finds Petrassi poised between neo-Classicism and a more modernist direction.