Italian Piano Concertos

[not edward]

Castiglioni's intriguing: he started largely straight modernist, went through a brief collage period and then emerged in later life writing tonally-inflected and rather whimsical pieces that often have a rather Satie-like simplicity to them. Often his late pieces will use quotes from earlier composers, though  in a much more organic manner than an Ives, Crumb or Schnittke.

In my estimation he's an interesting figure, though a minor one.

[Wanderer]

Thanks all for your input. I'll try to listen to your suggestions.

I'd suggest you start with Respighi (all the works mentioned) and then continue with Martucci before tackling the others.

[Cato]

How Italian can Busoni's wonderful Piano Concerto be, when its text in the final movement is in German!!!          

Scarlatti's various harpsichord works might allow an ambitious person to expand them into a full piano concerto, like Ravel's expansion of Moussorgsky's Pictures.

[JoshLilly]

Antonio Salieri wrote two at least; the C Major has some fairly unusual stuff in the 1st movement, at least for the time it was written. Then again, you might not even count Salieri as a truly Italian composer, since he may have been born there, but most of his music doesn't sound Italian and he didn't live there for most of his professional life. Probably my favourite piano concerti by an Italian composer are #7 and #8 by Paisiello, or Clementi's one and only.

I don't see a mention of Nino Rota's Piano Concerto in E minor. I've never heard it so I can't recommend it, but I've seen it recommended a number of times. Looks like he wrote more than one Piano Concerto.

[snyprrr]

when i first saw the title of this thread i laughed.

wasn't hyperion records on their 7th vol. of "The Italian Piano Concerto"? i'm sorry, that was cheeky....but it DOES make me think there is a lost 3-cd vox box out there, haha

either way....castiglioni is the king of the ice castle!! invierno in vers!!!!