Goffredo Petrassi was the patriarch of modern Italian music, a living embodiment of its progress in the 20th century, which is chronicled in his proud series of eight Concertos for Orchestra. Petrassi ...

Francesco La Vecchia draws out the fierce contrasts of Goffredo Petrassi’s later music in this new recording of his final two concertos. Though his music is rarely heard in the UK these days, Goffredo ...

The Italians are out front this week with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conducted by Roberto Abbado, the program features cellist Mario Brunello plus the first SPCO performance of an orchestral work ...

Concerto for Orchestra No 1 Goffredo Petrassi, Composer Arturo Tamayo, Conductor Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra Concerto for Orchestra No 2 Arturo Tamayo, Conductor Netherlands Radio Symphony ...

Paul Seiko Chihara, who turns 75 this year, is an original in every respect. One critic presciently remarked that “it is easier to think of [him] as several different composers”, since he describes ...

Long-lived Italian composer Goffredo Petrassi (1904-2003) is famous for a series of concertos. But the early Piano Concerto (1936-39) is not part of that series. His celebrated concertos are all for ...

Concerto for Flute and Orchestra Rome Symphony Orchestra Mario Ancillotti, Flute Goffredo Petrassi, Composer Francesco La Vecchia, Conductor Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Goffredo Petrassi, ...

The composer Goffredo Petrassi, who has died aged 98, was a leading Italian member of the second generation of modernists. In the English-speaking world, his contemporary Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-75) ...

With the death of Goffredo Petrassi, in his 99th year, Italy has lost not only its senior composer but a teacher of rare distinction. Among Scottish-based composers, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and ...

Goffredo Petrassi, who has died aged 98, was one of the foremost among a group of Italian composers which included Dallapiccola, Casella and Malipiero, which, in the earlier part of the 20th century, ...