Complete Piano Music 2 - Sonata • Divertimento Contrappuntistico • Ricercare

Tracks 1 to 11 and 15 are world première recordings. Note at head of traycard verso: The composer’s daughter, Maria Grazia Ghedini, writes of these recordings: “As I listened to these pieces being played by Massimo Giuseppe Bianchi, I was reminded of something my father once said: ‘This is my credo: music is not a passing fashion, it is everlasting... As society becomes ever more technical, there is a great need for genuine sentiment, which is why music too must be animated, at its core, by a dramatic, romantic impulse... only thus can all its magic be conveyed.’” 12-page booklet includes M.-G. Ghedini's words on pp.6 & 11, in addition to complete tracklist (p.2), notes in English (pp.3-6) and Italian (pp.8-11), artist bio with photograph (p.7), and advertisements for other releases in the Naxos 20th Century Italian Classics series (pp.12). Recorded at the Giottomusic Recording Studio, Perugia, Italy, 1st-3rd April 2010 Piano: Fazioli Mod. F278 Mtr. 1279 Publishers: Casa Ricordi, Milano/Universal Music Publishing Classical (tracks 4 to 7, 8 to 10); Suvini Zerboni, Milan (track 13); Lycos Edizioni Musicali, Turin (track 14); Carisch, Milan (track 15). AIl other works unpublished. Thanks to Andrea Lanza, Conservatorio “G. Verdi”, Turin, and Maria Pia Ferraris and Pier Luigi Ledda, Archivio Storico Ricordi, Milan. Comune di Mazzano coat-of-arms on traycard verso, upper left section ℗ & © 2011 Naxos Rights International Ltd. Made in Germany Playing Time: 65:07 2nd of 2-CD survey of Ghedini's complete piano music (1st is Naxos 8.572329).