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Butta, Gilda / Terekiev, Victoria

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Gilda Butta, a specialist in Morricone! A collection of works for 4 hands by Ottorino Respighi, Gian Francesco Malipiero and Giuseppe Martucci, whom Massimo Mira (1910-1988), a leading musicologist and music critic in 20th century Italy, called “the generation of 1880”. This is a unique and interesting program of works for “piano four hands” by three great Italian composers, Ottorino Respighi, Gian Francesco Malipiero, and Giuseppe Martucci, whom Ottolino Mira (1910-1988) called “the generation of 1880”. Respighi’s “Fountains of Rome” and Malipiero’s “Armenia” and “Intervals and Silence” were arranged by the composers themselves, while Respighi’s “Six Pieces” and Martucci’s “Fantasy, Op.8” are original works for piano 4 hands. These three composers, who devoted themselves to the revival of instrumental music in Italy at a time when opera was flourishing, are considered to h