Caleidoscopio
Riccardo Centazza |
Here is a disc whose title - "Caleidoscopio" - makes us immediately guess that spans various musical situations.
Accordionist Riccardo Centazzo is professor at the Conservatory of Fermo and he is a highly regarded professional internationally.
Indeed, the program, while remaining within the fold of concert music, offers an anthology of musical forms and authors that is really interesting, although historical periods are privileged the late Baroque and the 1900's.
The oldest part is represented by two titans:
- JS Bach - with the "Fantasy and Fugue" BWV 561, the chorale BWV 751 and the "games" BWV 767
and
- D. Scarlatti, with three sonatas (K. 322, 149, 209).
For the varied twentieth century music, Centazzo proposes several tracks ranging from post-Romanticism (Alfano and Liviabella) atonality and cutting edge (Sauguet, Di Gesualdo, Olczak).
But the gem of the album is the "Petite Pièce" G. Petrassi, the only piece not twentieth-century original accordion (it was written for piano?), but the work sounds like it was composed for an instrument with reeds.
About the transcripts, the same interpreter wrote appropriately in the booklet:
"..... accordionists [...] do not want to conflict or compete with organists, pianists or harpsichordist, but the 'ambition to "enrich", "regenerate" and "recover" the musical essence of the original works through the use of reeds, records the expressivity of the bellows."
All executions - and the transcripts - are impeccable, denoting the level of technical and artistic maturity reached by Riccardo Centazzo.
Reviewed by Alessandro Mugnoz agosto 2015 |
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