Rare Italian piano concertos (Hyperion)

[Alan Howe]

Thanks for this information, though.

[Rob H]

Ah thanks for the info. I was really hoping for some undiscovered romantic concertos here. I really hope someone tracks down the Pick-Mangiagalli concertos - I read somewhere about a reconstruction of the second suggesting that there are at least two and a recording of Sortilegi wouldn't go amiss.

[eschiss1]

The nearest-that-might-work (though not within our strictest remit) and undiscovered-to-my-knowledge piano and orchestra I find (so far) that IMSLP contains (before I expand elsewhere) is a brief 2-movement "Oriental Poem", published in 1932 but pretty Romantic to my eyes, called "La Perla Nera" by Armando Mercuri (1884-1948). A deep search of InternetCulturale-Italia might turn up more orchestral and concertante works by the lost generation of 19th-century Italian composers, though.

[eschiss1]

Re Pick-Mangiagalli, btw, there's also his 3 Miniatures, Op.4 for piano and strings, composed 1909 and published 1910.

[Gareth Vaughan]

A deep search of InternetCulturale-Italia might turn up more orchestral and concertante works by the lost generation of 19th-century Italian composers, though.

Well, apart from the Pick-Mangiagalli pieces already mentioned above, the following come to mind:
Gino Tagliapietra: Concerto and Concertino for piano & orchestra (performance material for both apparently in Biblioteca nazionale Marciana in Venice)
Michele Eulambio: Concerto for piano & orchestra (the score of which Wheesht has kindly photocopied)
Attilio Brugnoli: Concerto for piano & orchestra (full score & 2piano score in Biblioteca nazionale centrale, Florence)
Ettore Pozzoli: Allegro di Concerto (I don't know where the score is or if it even exists still - he died in 1957)
and the piano concertos by Adolfo and Disma Fumagalli, of course.

[eschiss1]

ms of Francesco Lanza's concerto for piano and full orchestra, mid-19th century.

[Gareth Vaughan]

Interesting. Seems to be lacking the piano part.

[eschiss1]

This sheet music collection contains a Grand Concerto op.7 by Lanza in piano solo or duet form, which , if it's even the same work, may supply the lack. I don't know!... (Hrm. Worldcat lists it, but Ohiolink and other sources don't. So, not sure now. May be another source for that "collection", though.) (Besides AbeBooks... which makes it look more too early than too late for us. Not sure if the concerto at InternetCulturale- which may be a different work- is in our remit; his years were 1783-1862...Lanza Tradition attributes 2 concertos to him. The site also mentions some other concertos that might answer the question, like Gilda Ruta's, if we can find them.)

[eschiss1]

Opac.sbn.it has a few listings for Francesco Lanza concerto, including the manuscript for the one for "piena orchestra" already noted that may be the same one that lacks the piano part (oh I see what you mean, the manuscript of the score has the piano part blank- sounds like something Mozart would do, to prevent piracy), a published concerto (Op.7) and a keyboard concerto in B-flat (a stampa = published). Since the mss is in F, the B-flat one is either Op.7 or actually a 3rd concerto (or a typo!).

[Wheesht]

On the page referred to as Guardia Superiore : 1 v in the internet.culturale link there would appear to be a reference to where the piano part can be found:

La parte del pianoforte sto [?] nel vol. 18 29 7