American Piano Landscapes: 19th Century & 20th Century Music From The New World – Giancarlo Simonacci

Giancarlo Simonacci is an attentive and curious pianist who has accustomed his audience to unusual and often enlightening paths within composers who are sometimes even little known. This time he does not dedicate himself to a particular author but to a world in his entirety, the American one. In his Album Simonacci traces a path that starts from the first true composer of the nineteenth century in the history of “made in USA” music as Heinrich and retraces the road with Beach, Cowell, Copland and arrives at the contemporary giants of Cage, Bernstein, Feldmann and closes with Glass in an enormous kaleidoscope of styles and genres that chase each other and succeeds in the complex enterprise of outlining not so much a spirit as an aesthetic that constantly reappears in the grandeur and microcosmicity of the chosen works.