Giuseppe Bruno

Giuseppe Bruno – Schubert: Piano Sonatas, D. 566, D. 613 & Other Piano Works (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

The Piano Sonata in E minor D 566 by Franz Schubert is a sonata for solo piano written in June 1817. The original manuscript appeared to lack a finale. Ludwig Scheibler (1848-1921) was the first to suggest in 1905 that the Rondo in E, D.506 might be that movement. The British composer and musicologist Kathleen Dale produced the first edition using this suggestion in 1948. The 1976 Henle edition by Paul Badura-Skoda followed the same practice.

The Piano Sonata in C major D 613 is a piano sonata written by Franz Schubert. Written in April 1818. The adagio D. 612 is most likely the middle movement according to Martino Tirimo.

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Giuseppe Bruno – Schubert: Piano Sonatas, D. 850 & D. 571 (Completed by G. Bruno) (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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Franz Schubert’s Piano Sonata in D major D. 850, Op. 53, known as the Gasteiner, was written during August 1825 whilst the composer was staying in the spa town of Bad Gastein. A year later, it became only the second of his piano sonatas to be published.

The Piano Sonata in F-sharp minor D 571, was composed by Franz Schubert in July 1817. The sonata was first published long after the composer’s death in 1888 by Breitkopf & Härtel.

The sonata is incomplete, consisting of only a single movement, and even that was abandoned by the composer before completion. Other hands, such as Paul Badura-Skoda Malcolm Bilson, Howard Ferguson, Noël Lee, and Martino Tirimo, have attempted to realise Schubert’s assumed intentions. These hypothetical completions of the sonata have been drawn from such separately published pieces as the piece (usually assumed to be an Andante) in A major, D. 604, and the Allegro vivace in D major and Allegro in F-sharp minor, D. 570.

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Giuseppe Bruno, Vincenzo Maxia – Liszt: Les préludes & Faust-Symphonie (Version for 2 Pianos) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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Giuseppe Bruno, Vincenzo Maxia – Liszt: Les préludes & Faust-Symphonie (Version for 2 Pianos) (2019)
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Possibly the first example of symphonic poem, “Les préludes” (1854) originated from an earlier setting of four poems by Joseph Autran from mixed chorus and piano, completed in 1845. Three years later, Liszt’s new interest in orchestration compelled him to elaborate the four movements into an orchestral overture, which he titled “Les Quatre Eléments” – The Four Elements. During his revision of the work three years later, he came across a poem by Alphonse de Lamartine, “Les preludes,” from the collection “Nouvelles méditations poétiques.” Liszt was taken by it, and chose it as the new title for the orchestral work, which was premiered in 1854 under his own direction. Several versions for piano appeared over the following years, including those of Karl Klauser and Eugene d’Albert. Liszt’s own splendid transcription for two pianos was published in 1856.

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Giuseppe Bruno – Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 13, D. 664 & No. 15, D. 840 “Reliquie” (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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In this first album of a series devoted to the complete piano sonatas of Franz Schubert, Giuseppe Bruno interprets the Sonatas in A Major, D664 and in C Major, D840. The Sonata in A Major is possibly the composer’s first breakthrough in the genre.

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Giuseppe Bruno – Schubert: Impromptus Opp. 90 & 142 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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What’s in a title? When a composer sets out to compose, very often inspiration comes in the form of works of various length that do not have a specific designation. It was the case for Bach’s preludes from the Well-tempered Clavier, Beethoven’s bagatelles, or Chopin’s preludes – all works that were perhaps too short as standalone pieces, but that eventually found their way into larger collections. Today we view these as cohesive sets, though it was never the original intention.

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Giuseppe Bruno – Schubert: Piano Sonatas D. 279, D. 459, D. 459a & Adagio in G Major, D. 178 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

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Giuseppe Bruno graduated with honors in Piano, Composition and Conductorship with Professors Specchi, Zangelmi and Taverna. Maestro Bruno specialized in piano with Paolo Bordoni and in conductorship with Leopold Hager. He has attended a seminar in composition at the IRCAM in Paris. Performing for several years as a pianist in many different chamber ensembles as well as a brilliant soloist. He has played with many important orchestras in Italy, USA, Greece, Romania and Germany in a repertory that goes from Mozart to Dallapiccola. From 1987 to 1992 he participated in the “Due Mondi” festival in Spoleto Italy and in 1988 in the Charleston festival in the USA.

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