Credits:

Valentina Danelon

Description:

The first comprehensive collection of works by Eugenio Visnovitz (19061931), the tragically short-lived composer from Trieste who struggled with self-destructive impulses. A hybrid musical style unique to the border city of Triestewhere the precision of German Romanticism, the melodic beauty of Italy, and the pathos of Eastern European Slavic traditions intertwineis revived for the first time worldwide. His scoreswhich he had torn up himself out of perfectionism and self-loathingwere miraculously salvaged thanks to his mothers love in retrieving them from the trash, his brother Ermannos determination in piecing the fragments back together, and the editorial work of musicologist Massimo Favent. The recording features the profound four-movement Violin Sonata in E-flat Major, PVH1309, written when he was 17 in which a classical form reminiscent of Beethoven and Brahms intertwines with bold mo