Respighi/ Baldocci/ Caramiello - Pianoforte a Quattro Mani AEC Video There's a somber beauty and

There's a somber beauty and world-weary tone throughout these songs

Antoni Katski (1816-1899) was an excellent pianist

If not the endpoint

The intention (perhaps I should say intuition) here has been to give vent to the various influences and impulses I've encountered on my musical journey

Respighi/ Baldocci/ Caramiello - Pianoforte a Quattro Mani AEC Video There's a somber beauty andIt may seem curious, or at least eccentric, to present a CD containing a composer's transcriptions for four handed piano of some pieces of his own that are regarded as exemplary and extraordinary particularly for their orchestration this opinion is undoubtedly deserved by two of Respighi's three famous tone poems in several movements, but probably also by his suites of Antiche danze e arie, which moreover had been expressly conceived as "specimens" of