Gianluca Cascioli – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Op. 10 No. 3, Op. 26 & “Grande sonate pathétique”, Op. 13 (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Gianluca Cascioli – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Op. 10 No. 3, Op. 26 & “Grande sonate pathétique”, Op. 13 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:08:10 minutes | 2,54 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Arcana

Beethoven’s music has always lain at the heart ofGianluca Cascioli’s research into interpretation. Whatdistinguishesthe present workis above all the choice of instrument: a fortepiano modelled on an 1805 Anton Walter built by Paul McNulty,an instrument equipped with both a moderator and theuna cordastop, like the one that Beethoven asked the same builder to make in 1802. The recording is in fact dedicated to works composed and published between the years 1796 and 1802.

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Gianluca Cascioli & Enrico Bronzi – Cascioli: Cello Works (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Gianluca Cascioli & Enrico Bronzi – Cascioli: Cello Works (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 23:39 minutes | 826 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Italia srL.

Gianluca Cascioli’s career as pianist was launched with his victory at the 1994 Umberto Micheli International Piano Competition before a jury that included Luciano Berio, Elliott Carter, Maurizio Pollini, and Charles Rosen. He has since appeared in the major music centres of Europe, North America, and Japan and has performed with such prestigious ensembles as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Camerata Salzburg, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Chicago Symphony, the English Chamber Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Mahler Jugendorchester, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic, the La Scala Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Wiener Philharmoniker. Conductors with whom he has collaborated include Claudio Abbado, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Myung-Whun Chung, Valery Gergiev, Daniel Harding, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Metha, Yuri Temirkanov e Mstislav Rostropovich, among others. Cascioli has performed chamber music with Mstislav Rostropovich, Yuri Bashmet, Maxim Vengerov, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Clemens Hagen, Sabine Meyer.

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Gianluca Cascioli – Cascioli Plays Cascioli (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Gianluca Cascioli – Cascioli Plays Cascioli (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 51:22 minutes | 1,70 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Italia srL.

Cascioli records for Decca and Deutsche Grammophon. Gianluca Cascioli studied composition at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi di Torino with Alessandro Ruo Rui and later with Alberto Colla.

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Gianluca Cascioli – Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 4, Op. 58 & “6”, Op. 61a (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Gianluca Cascioli – Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 4, Op. 58 & “6”, Op. 61a (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:08 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © harmonia mundi

With Beethoven’s Piano Concertos no. 4 and op. 61a, the latter being the composer’s own transcription of his Violin Concerto, Gianluca Cascioli, Riccardo Minasi and Ensemble Resonanz present two milestones of the piano literature.

Basing their interpretation on intensive source research in the archives of the Vienna Musikverein and on handwritten notes by Beethoven, the performers suggest an alternative, more varied and virtuosic version of the piano part in Concerto no. 4.

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Gianluca Cascioli – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 24, 26 & 29 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Gianluca Cascioli – Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 24, 26 & 29 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:05:48 minutes | 2,22 GB | Genre: Classical, Piano
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Italia srL.

The career of Italian pianist Gianluca Cascioli was launched with his victory at the 1994 Umberto Micheli International Piano Competition before a jury that included Luciano Berio, Elliott Carter, Maurizio Pollini, and Charles Rosen. He has since appeared in the major music centres of Europe, North America, and Japan.

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Gianluca Cascioli – ‘900 Italia (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Gianluca Cascioli – ‘900 Italia (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:21:26 minutes | 2,67 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Italia srL.

Gianluca Cascioli is an Italian pianist, conductor, and composer. He studied composition at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Turin and piano with Franco Scala. In 1994, Cascioli won the Umberto Micheli International Piano Competition, whose jury included Luciano Berio, Elliott Carter, Charles Rosen, and Maurizio Pollini. The prize included a record contract with Deutsche Grammophon, for whom he recorded three CDs in his late teens.

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Gianluca Cascioli – ‘900 (Austria – Germany) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Gianluca Cascioli – ‘900 (Austria – Germany) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:03:30 minutes | 2,11 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Music Italia srL.

“Cascioli is a genius, and genius makes its own rules; there is never a dull moment when he’s around…”
Richard Dyer, The Boston Globe

The career of Italian pianist Gianluca Cascioli was launched with his victory at the 1994 Umberto Micheli International Piano Competition before a jury that included Luciano Berio, Elliott Carter, Maurizio Pollini, and Charles Rosen. He has since appeared in the major music centres of Europe, North America, and Japan.

On this Universal release, Cascioli tackles the music of the early 20th century, a time of great artistic vision and great world turmoil. The progress, genius, and violence of the turn of the century is featured here in full colour.

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Gianluca Cascioli – 900 (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Gianluca Cascioli – 900 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:13:02 minutes | 2,41 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon

900, l’album che raccoglie musiche dell’area russa e baltica dai primi del Novecento a oggi. Gianluca Cascioli dal vivo in libreria. Questo CD raccoglie musiche dell’area russa e baltica dai primi del Novecento a oggi ed è il primo di un progetto ideato da Gianluca Cascioli dedicato al bello nella musica moderna e contemporanea. Scriabin apre l’appassionante viaggio di Gianluca Cascioli alla ricerca – e all’interpretazione esatta e coinvolgente – di musica moderna e contemporanea bella e ispirata in grado di avvicinare un pubblico ampio.

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