Gianluca Cascioli - '900 Italia (2019) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Gianluca Cascioli is an Italian pianist, conductor, and composer. He studied composition at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Turin and piano with Franco Scala. In 1994, Cascioli won the Umberto Micheli International Piano Competition, whose jury included Luciano Berio, Elliott Carter, Charles Rosen, and Maurizio Pollini. The prize included a record contract with Deutsche Grammophon, for whom he recorded three CDs in his late teens.

He has appeared as a piano soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, and numerous other orchestras worldwide. Conductors he has worked with include Claudio Abbado, Roberto Abbado, Myung-Whun Chung, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Valery Gergiev, Zubin Mehta, Mstislav Rostropovich, Neville Marriner, and many others. His chamber-music partners have included Maxim Vengerov, Mstislav Rostropovich, Stefano Mollo, the Berlin Philharmonic Octet, and many others.

He has conducted the Deutsche Kammerorchester Frankfurt, and among compositions of his to be performed are a Sonatina (2004) premiered at the Hamburg Musikfest, Variations for Piano, premiered in Japan, and a Symphony premiered in Italy, as well as a Violin and Piano Sonata premiered in Italy with Stefano Mollo.

His discography includes three CDs for DG, a recording of the original Fantasie version of the Schumann Piano Concerto with Mario Venzago and the Basel Symphony Orchestra for Hanssler, a CD of Chopin for Decca, and a CD of Debussy Préludes, Children's Corner, and other works for Decca.

Tracklist:
01. Busoni: 7 Elegien, BV 249-7. Berceuse
02. Busoni: Sonatina No.4, BV 274 "in diem nativitatis Christi MCMXVII"
03. Alaleona: La città fiorita, cinque "impronte" per pianoforte-2. Crisantemo
04. Malipiero: Risonanze-1. Calmo
05. Malipiero: Risonanze-2. Fluido
06. Malipiero: Risonanze-3. Non troppo mosso
07. Malipiero: Risonanze-4. Agitato, non troppo
08. Lupi: 6 Studi per pianoforte-1. Vivo e fresco
09. Lupi: 6 Studi per pianoforte-2. Moderatamente mosso
10. Lupi: 6 Studi per pianoforte-3. Velocissimo
11. Savagnone: Prisma armonico, Op. 22-Preludio No. 1: Allegro
12. Berio: 6 Encores-3. Wasserklavier
13. Castiglioni: Sonatina per pianoforte-1. Andantino mosso assai dolcino
14. Castiglioni: Sonatina per pianoforte-2. Ländler. Allegro semplice
15. Castiglioni: Sonatina per pianoforte-3. Fughetta. Allegretto
16. Mosso: Secondo quaderno per pianoforte
17. Mosso: Pièce mécanique per pianoforte (in memoria di E.Satie)
18. Mosso: 22 Preludi per pianoforte-No. 4 Canzone
19. Mosso: 22 Preludi per pianoforte-No. 11 Allegretto vivo
20. Mosso: 22 Preludi per pianoforte-No. 14 Allegro marziale
21. Mosso: 22 Preludi per pianoforte-No. 18 Canzone di culla
22. Mosso: 22 Preludi per pianoforte-No. 22 Molto allegro, volante
23. Colla: Notturno IV "Moonbow"
24. Colla: Notturno VII "Mosarc"
25. Colla: Notturno IX "Rope bridge"
26. Colla: Notturno X "Lunar Ephemeris"