Bellafronte: Piano Sonatas, 12 Preludes

The set of 12 Preludes opens with a magnificently imposing evocation of stillness, coloured by the kind of bittersweet harmonies to be found in Bartok and the sense of musical space associated with Messiaen, building a surprisingly complete soundworld within the brief space of three minutes.

Composer: Raffaele Bellafronte
Artist: Alessandro Deljavan

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Born in 1961, the Italian composer Raffaelle Bellafronte has produced a wide-ranging body of work in a modern tonal idiom. Previous albums of concertos, guitar music and chamber works paint a portrait of a lively mind and a personal voice embracing large dramatic gestures and lyric reflection, each as quintessentially ‘Italian’ in their expression as the other.

Bellafronte trained as a pianist himself, and he composes for the full spectrum of the instrument’s heroic and sensual possibilities. There is a satisfying crunch to the harmonies and immediately appreciable breadth of vision to the opening paragraphs of the Sonata Prima Désaccord (2006),where contrapuntal and propulsive ostinato writing combine to pull the listener through a compelling narrative which feels longer than its 12-minute duration.

From three years later, the Second Sonata experiments with a Haydnesque binary form of two quick movements – a nervous, lopsided march followed by a frustrated would-be fugue with a brutal and macabre conclusion. The Third Sonata (2014) is the most substantial piece here in both duration and ambition, launched with a momentum worthy of Bartók or Alkan. The quick-slow-quick form is superficially conventional, but it encloses a wealth of surprising excursions which challenge tonal stability and once more pitch the listener into a pianistic tumult. Attracting a range of renowned pianists such as Zlata Chochieva and Maria Argentiero, Bellafronte’s piano music is tackled here with superb assurance by Alessandro Deljavan, no stranger to the Brilliant Classics and Piano Classics catalogues himself, with acclaimed albums of Chopin, Taneyev and Godard to his credit.

Tracklist:
12 Preludes:
00:00:00 I. Preludio I
00:02:17 II. Preludio II
00:05:08 III. Preludio III
00:06:21 IV. Preludio IV
00:09:07 V. Preludio V
00:11:41 VI. Preludio VI
00:13:53 VII. Preludio VII
00:15:33 VIII. Preludio VIII
00:17:35 IX. Preludio IX
00:19:58 X. Preludio X
00:21:39 XI. Preludio XI
00:25:03 XII. Preludio XII

Sonata prima – Desaccòrd:
00:28:43 I. Vivo
00:33:56 II. Tranquillo
00:37:20 III. Nervoso

Sonata seconda:
00:40:42 I. Tempo primo
00:44:02 II. Tempo secondo

Sonata terza:
00:47:38 I. Allegro con fuoco
00:54:27 II. Sospeso
00:59:32 III. Energico e sinuoso

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