Baldassare GALUPPI Keyboard Sonatas • 2 Matteo Napoli, Piano
572490bk Galuppi2:570034bk Hasse 24/7/11 11:55 AM Page 4 Matteo Napoli Matteo Napoli was born in Salerno and is an honours graduate of the Giordano Conservatoire (Foggia). Early in his Baldassare career he captured worldwide attention winning many competitions, including First Prize in the International Liszt Competition at Lucca (Italy) in 1986. He has performed in Europe, as well as in New York, Mexico City, São Paolo, Japan, Australia, China and Malaysia. As a soloist, he has appeared with a number of orchestras, including the GALUPPI Orchestra da Camera di Firenze, Brasov Philharmonic, Ofunam Philharmonic Orchestra, Tirana Opera House, Cyprus Chamber Orchestra, NSO of Malaysia, and, in New Zealand, the Manukau Symphony Orchestra and Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. In Auckland (2003) he gave the first modern performance of the Piano Concerto No. 6 by Keyboard Sonatas • 2 Ferdinand Ries, with Uwe Grodd as conductor, followed by the European première in Romania and a further performance with the NSO of Malaysia (2004). He is now based in Auckland, New Zealand. www.matteonapoli.com Matteo Napoli, Piano C M Y K 8.572490 4 572490bk Galuppi2:570034bk Hasse 24/7/11 11:55 AM Page 2 Baldassare Galuppi (1706–1785) listing of 1909, with Nos. 29 to 32 following the listing of Scarlatti and the sonata ends with an Allegro assai in triple Keyboard Sonatas • 2 Charles van den Borren of 1923. Illy records Nos. 36 to time with characteristic opening figuration. 41, the sonatas of the Passatempo al cembalo, as having The Sonata in C major, Illy 27, opens with an Andante, Known as Il Buranello, from Burano, his place of birth, Dublin and of the second, Galuppi’s Penelope, he quotes been mentioned by Ezra Pound’s mistress, the American its melody presented in the right hand against an Alberti Baldassare Galuppi played a leading part in the develop- a certain nobleman: Il faut que je dise avec Harlequin, violinist Olga Rudge, in an Accademia Chigiana pub- accompaniment.
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