Respighi Complete Piano Music II includes a previously unknown sonata, only recently published, and a number of works from the composer’s youth, some of which find completion by pianist Gatto herself. The major contribution lies in the Piano Sonata in…
[it] “Oltre alla musica accattivante, vi aspettano due interpreti femminili, che sicuramente faranno sentire parlare di loro in futuro”. “Il duo Emerald Ghost, formato dalla soprano Lucy De Butts e dalla pianista Giovanna Gatto, lavora insieme dal 2019 e ha…
“There is ample chance also here for Ms. Gatto to demonstrate her lovely singing tone in the playing, especially in the more difficult-sounding passages around three minutes in.” “There are more lovely scrunchy harmonies here, especially in the middle voicings…
Respighi’s Piano Sonata of 1897/98 was not discovered until the 1980s. A student work, the second movement is beautifully nocturnal with a Busonian slant, giving way to a sprightly, again somewhat Busonian, finale. More expansive than Scherbakov (Naxos), Gatto finds…
“Supported by solid musicological research, this publication allows us to take the measure of the fully affirmed personality of the Italian master (…) Giovanna Gatto, very sparing with pedals, sculpts the details in a dry, unusual but meditative and welcome…
I must confess that Respighi is one of those composers I am not hugely familiar with, and I was even less aware that he wrote any piano music at all! Luckily, the ever reliable Toccata Classics and Giovanna Gatto have…
Edition Belfort-Héricourt-Montbéliard | Belfort Swiss duo for an original repertoire at FIMU Festival 2016 Thirty minutes before the concert, the queue is getting longer and longer in front of the St. Christopher’s Cathedral. As soon as the doors opened, the…
From the interview to Professor Roberto Porroni: Journalist: Professor Porroni, one of the most important events of the festival is for sure the one performed in the church in Maggio (Lecco,Italy), with a concert by the duo Polona Tominec (accordion)…
…”the whole audience attending at the event, even the children, has listened to the concert of classic music, receiving such a great emotional intensity that I couldn’t believe my eyes. At the end of the concert I have remarked to…