Luca Moscardi: Piano Works Vol. 2 – Tania Cardillo

Moscardi’s cycle of Five Nocturnal Tales op. 39 dates back entirely to 2021, even though a draft of the first of them was conceived much earlier. It is a collection of middle-sized pieces, substantially Nocturnes, dedicated to Night. They all share the ABA structure, whereby the central B episode is mainly bound to the principal thematic section (through derivation, variation, etc.). Each is dedicated to a musician friend. By way of contrast, his cycle of ten Epigrammi op. 21 for the piano was born within a rather long timespan, between 2019 and 2021. The pieces have not been written consecutively; indeed, the collection underwent a period of compositional pause, and was completed in several stages. In spite of this, as concerns both style and language the cycle is linguistically homogenous and with an internal consistency of its own. Moscardi’s Fantasia e Fuga sul nome GADE is a youthful work inspired by César Franck, whereby the composer looked at tradition as to a lighthouse and a model whence he could start for later developing more personal ideas of his own.