i Vivace molto and Melodico, ii Tempo de Vals noble, iii Tempo de Vals lento, iv Allegro humoristico, v Allegretto (elegante), vi Quasi ad libitum (sentimental), vii Vivo, viii Presto
Spanish Romanticism proved an indelible influence on Enrique Granados. With typically Romantic exclusiveness he took only what he wanted from this inspiration. He ignored the satiric violence and turmoil which are so often the other side of the Romantic coin and focused instead on a world of decorously induced passion and sublimated love. The Valses poéticos (1887) are the reverse of Granados’s masterpiece Goyescas (music which gave Ernest Newmann ‘the voluptuous sense of passing the fingers through masses of richly coloured jewels’) and are of an almost classic cut and economy. Yet the opening bunny-hop dance in rapid duple time is enlivened with a typically piquant dissonance, and the full-circle return to the first beguiling waltz is one of many surprises that make you wonder why this music is not in the repertoire of many more pianists. (Source Bryce Morrison)
The Allegro de concierto in C♯ major, Op. 46, is a virtuosic showpiece composed between 1903 and 1904. Its lyricism and technical brilliance, reminiscent of Franz Liszt, have made it one of the composer's most popular works.
El pelele translates as ‘The straw man’. The influence of Scarlatti is especially marked here, in the sheer delight Granados takes in sensual virtuosity and irrepressible bonhomie. The pelele was a life-size straw man that young women enjoyed tossing up in the air, using a blanket that they held at the corners as a kind of trampoline. Goya portrayed the scene unforgettably in one of his tapestry cartoons, and the giddy exuberance of this music makes El pelele one of Granados’s most memorable compositions (Source Walter Aaron Clark)
Adiós Nonino (Farewell, Granddaddy) is a composition by tango Argentine composer Ástor Piazzolla, written in October 1959 while in New York, in memory of his father, Vicente "Nonino" Piazzolla, a few days after his father's death.
Oblivion was composed in 1982 and originally arranged for bandonéon, piano and bass. It has since been arranged for piano solo, clarinet, orchestra, and even a spoken version. The piece was commissioned and featured in the 1984 film Enrico IV (“Henry IV”) by Marco Bellocchio. Adapted from the eponymous theatrical piece by Luigi Pirandello, the plot tells the story of a man who, after losing conscience, thinks he is the famous king. The piece became popular from the film and lives to this day through concert performances. Piazzola elicits an atmospheric and haunting ambience in his composition, evoking the image of oblivion.
Libertango is a composition by tango composer and bandoneon player Astor Piazzolla, recorded and published in 1974 in Milan. The title is a portmanteau merging “Libertad” (Spanish for “liberty”) and “tango”, symbolizing Piazzolla’s break from classical tango to tango nuevo.
Vincenzo Delli Noci - Piano
Vincenzo Delli Noci started his musical studies with the Maestro Antonio Baldari at age 10. He graduated with the highest honours in the class of Maestro Adriano Cirillo at the State Musical Conservatory "N.Piccinni" in Bari and then refined his musical development with the Maestro Roberto Cappello.
After winning several piano competitions at national and international level, he has started a brilliant concert career as a soloist in various chamber formations and orchestra with the enthusiastic approval of the public and critics alike.
He is a regular guest of the major Italian concert organizations; he has performed in the major European cities such as Zurich, Vienna, Prague and Munich. In March 2010, as guest of Iberian & Latin American Music Society, he made his debut in London with a programme entirely dedicated to the Spanish music. In 2012 he performed a concert in León (Spain), where he was invited for the second time, he inaugurated the cycle of concerts “Musicos del Mundo”, the same concert was performed at London's prestigious hall of St Martin in the Fields. In 2014 he made a concert tour in Scotland and, in August of same year, he debuted in Paris. It is important to highlight among his recent international events the concerts in Manchester, Amsterdam, Cologne, Trelleborg (Sweden), Seville, Edinburgh, Oxford, Brighton, London, Gravesend, Braga (Portugal), Dublin, Cambridge, Paris and Berlin.
Vincenzo Delli Noci has recorded two CDs, one with the works of Granados and Albeniz, the other which combines little known gems with some of the best known masterpieces of the piano repertoire.
Besides the concert activity he works as regular piano teacher in the State Secondary Schools.
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