LANDSCAPES Classic Piano Solo - Edoardo Brotto

LANDSCAPES Classic Piano Solo (CVLD298)

Edoardo Brotto, piano

Available in: HD File, CD

• 01 Devil's Dance (May, 2017) 10:40
• 02 The Magical Wood, in the style of Ravel (October, 2017) 6:38
• 03 Fantasia Quasi Sonata, in the style of Rachmaninov and Chopin (December, 2017) 17:19
• 04 Prelude in C (September, 2017) 3:39
• 05 Valse Scherzo, in the style of Chopin (July, 2017) 11:47
• 06 Summer Rain, in the style of Ravel (January, 2018) 6:35
• 07 Game Of Thrones Variations (December, 2017) 13:06

Total Time: 69:45

All compositions by Edoardo Brotto Edoardo Brotto plays Steinway & Sons D274 Concert Grand, granted by Zin Padova and tuned by Adriano Zin and Edoardo Brotto.

88.2kHz/24bit original recording made at AreaMagister Studios, Preganziol, Italy, on January, 16 and 17, 2018, using Ribera R12 and Sennheiser MKH8020 microphones During the recording of the digital masters and the subsequent transfer to disc, the entire audio chain was transformerless. The signal was preserved "flat" and not passed through any processing device at any step during production. The original master was monitored and personally approved by M. Edoardo Brotto, due to the perfect match with the original natural sound of the Steinway & Sons Grandpiano played by himself during recording sessions. Mastering Monitor Systems Professional System: dac: North Star Design Supremo pre amplifier: Norma SC-2 Reference triamplified professional speakers: Genelec 1037c + 7070 Top Hi-End System: dac: Wadia Digital 1000 pre amplifier: Jeff Rowland Coherence One power amplifier: Spectral DMA 90 speakers: Sonus Faber Extrema by Franco Serblin

Production: VELUT LUNA
Executive Producer: Marco Lincetto
Musical Producer: Edoardo Brotto
Recording, Mix & Mastering Engineer: Marco Lincetto
Cover Photo: Edoardo Brotto
Graphics and Layout: Francesca Brotto

Composer, pianist and photographer: three forms of artistic expression, listed in strictly alphabetical order, which come together in one person, at the highest quality levels. And these are three Arts that in Edoardo Brotto are inevitably interconnected: the musical compositions are directly linked to the images of nature that he first "perceives" and then captures with his photographic lens. They are a source of inspiration and his music describes their colors and forms. And finally, the pianist translates these images, articulating them into "sound". The Vicenza-based pianist creates his compositions by improvising directly at the keyboard in real-time, sometimes in the style of some great composers in music history (and this in itself is a significant virtue that in any case presupposes a deep knowledge of the subject) and much more often with an original and unique creative flair. The fact is that the compositions born from these "improvisations" are pages of the highest technical virtuosity, as well as musical depth, no more and no less than the music of past composers who sometimes inspired them in some way. Speaking of the music specifically, I can simply state with serenity that each piece is characterized by transcendental musical and technical difficulties. This is beautiful music where the difficulties are not ends in themselves or mere virtuosity, but exclusively functional to the pure musical structure of the contents and the actual images, "photographed and developed" by his creativity. Finally, it is tonal music, meaning it is understandable to everyone, but by no means trivial: it is music that draws from the great classics, metabolizes them, and derives a new light from them, of continuity, but directed towards the future. Neither manneristic, nor disrespectful, nor pompous or trivial.