Salviucci: Chamber Works Sabina von Walther, Überbrettl Ensemble & Pierpaolo Maurizzi

• Giovanni Salviucci (1907 - 1937): Serenade for 9 Instruments:
• 1 Serenade for 9 Instruments: I. Allegro molto 05:08
• 2 Serenade for 9 Instruments: II. Canzone. Andantino 06:08
• 3 Serenade for 9 Instruments: III. Allegro 05:22
• Salmo di David:
• 4 Salmo di David 04:45
• String Quartet in C Major:
• 5 String Quartet in C Major: I. Allegro moderato 08:31
• 6 String Quartet in C Major: II. Adagio molto 06:48
• 7 String Quartet in C Major: III. Allegro vivace 05:56
• 6 Pieces for Violin & Piano:
• 8 6 Pieces for Violin & Piano: No. 1, Alle nozze. Andante maestoso 01:59
• 9 6 Pieces for Violin & Piano: No. 2, Elegia. Adagio 03:06
• 10 6 Pieces for Violin & Piano: No. 3, Preghiera. Adagietto 02:27
• 11 6 Pieces for Violin & Piano: No. 4, Alla festa. Allegro 02:39
• 12 6 Pieces for Violin & Piano: No. 5, Meditatione. Adagio 03:05
• 13 6 Pieces for Violin & Piano: No. 6, Arioso. Largo 02:15
• Adagio for Cello & Piano:
• 14 Adagio for Cello & Piano (Nostalgic Thought) 02:58
• Chamber Symphony for 17 Instruments:
• 15 Chamber Symphony for 17 Instruments: I. Allegro 07:25
• 16 Chamber Symphony for 17 Instruments: II. Adagio 05:15
• 17 Chamber Symphony for 17 Instruments: III. Allegretto vivace 02:56
• 18 Chamber Symphony for 17 Instruments: IV. Allegro 05:47
• Total Runtime 01:22:30

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In the interwar period, Giovanni Salviucci was recognised as one of Italy’s most talented composers alongside Luigi Dallapiccola and Goffredo Petrassi but his early successes and all future hopes were quashed by his untimely death in 1937. The Serenade for 9 Instruments, at times rhythmically restless, at others tender and cantabile, and the angular, harmonically daring, neo-Classical Chamber Symphony for 17 Instruments, are two of his most forward-looking compositions. The unpublished String Quartet, at the heart of which lies an Adagio molto of extraordinary emotional impact, is a true gem. This release of the complete published chamber music stands as a vibrant testament to a future curtailed of a composer described by Petrassi in a letter to Casella, Salviucci’s teacher and mentor, as ‘il migliore di noi tutti’ (‘the best of us all’).

Sabina von Walther, soprano
Ensemble Überbrettl
Pierpaolo Maurizzi, piano, conductor

Sabina von Walther
Born in Italy in 1968. In 1988 diploma in transverse flute at the Conservatory in Boze. Voice students at the Musikhochschule Wien with Helena Lazarska. Participation in the master classes for lied given by Kammermusiksänger Walter Berry and in the opera class of Bülter-Marell. In 1993 1st prize as well as „Erik-Werba“-Gedenkpreis at „Jugend musiziert“ in Leoben. In 1995 Pamina in Mozart’s „Zauberflöte“ with the Wiener Kammer-Orchester. In 1996 Poppea in Monteverdi’s „L’ Incoronazione di Poppea“ at the Schloßtheater Schönbrunn. CD-recordings.

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