American Classics - Gianni: Piano Concerto, Symphony no 4 (CD)

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• Release Date: January 27, 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Naxos (USA / Record Label)
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Vittorio Ginannini: Piano Concerto and Symphony No. 4
Daniel Spalding
Gabriela Imreh
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

The American composer and teacher Vittorio Giannini was born in Philadelphia in 1903. He studied the violin from an early age, won a scholarship to the Milan Conservatory, and, in 1925, entered The Julliard School. In 1932, he won the first of three consecutive Prix de Rome. During the 1930s, several of his works - notably his operas Lucedia and The Scarlet Letter(1938) and his Requiem(1937) - enjoyed critical success in Europe. Giannini is, however, perhaps best-known for his popular song, "Tell me, Oh blue, blue Sky!", a collaboration with poet Karl Flaster, who also provided the libretti for both of the aforementioned operas. When Giannini returned to the United States, he joined the teaching staff at Julliard and Manhattan School of Music and also taught at Curtis. (Notably, Ginannini was one of Corigliano's teachers, possibly at Manhattan School of Music.) In 1963, he founded and became the first president of the North Carolina School of the Arts.

Considering many of his American contemporaries were exploring neo-classicism and twelve-tone composition, Giannini's adherence to a late neo-Romantic style, more in line with Wagner and Puccini, was remarkable. Conductor Daniel Spalding notes that his search for his Piano Concerto required a great deal of detective works: 'The first time I learned about the existence of Giannini's Piano Concerto was about 10-11 years ago in 1997, while researching him in the vast and impressive Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music of the Philadelphia Free Library. At that time Giannini's work wasn't known much with the exception of his band music and his Concerto Grosso for strings, which I have conducted before... Out of one of the very few Giannini manuscripts that the library has, his obituary from The New York Times fell out and it happened to mention the existence of the Piano Concerto."

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