TAPE 1
Scherzo 1902 2.11
Piano Sonata in F# Minor 1903-1904
Allegro 13.05
Vivo 5.44
Conceived, recorded, and produced by Giulio Cesare Ricci
Photos: Mark Winter "cover", Paola Liberato "booklet"
This album was recorded by Giulio Cesare Ricci at the Teatro Persico Flacco in Volterra in August 2010.
Igor Stravinsky is one of the greatest musical geniuses of the 20th century, not only because he is regularly performed at the most important musical institutions and concert halls around the world, but also because he is recognized in respectable cultural circles beyond classical music. This is his complete works for piano, and by complete we mean all the compositions available under current publishers: Boosey and Hawkes, Faber Music, Chester Music, and Schott Edition. The complete works concern the original compositions for piano.
The pieces on this album were performed by Maestro Giacomo Franci and recorded in the order they were composed.
The chronological order provides a better understanding of Stravinsky's creative process.
For this recording, Giulio Cesare Ricci used the original Neumann U47, U48, and M49 tube microphones and all his equipment: Signoricci microphone preamplifiers, digital cables, line cables, microphone cables, and power cables.
