Dallapiccola/ Rota/ Scelsi - 20th Century Italian Piano MusicRecorded in Finland, in Jrvenp near Helsinki, this disc is a tribute to five extraordinary figures in Italian music: Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882 1973), Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco (1895 1968), Luigi Dallapiccola (1904 1975), Giacinto Scelsi (1905 1988), and Nino Rota (1911 1979); five composers whose poetic universes, although very different from one another, are permeated by a common, intense expressiveness: the same trait that runs through the

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