Concertos for orchestra nos.7 & 8 (2025)

"In the early 1960s Goffredo Petrassi’s idiom was almost indistinguishable from that of the Italian avant-garde. Completed in 1964, the Seventh Concerto evolves with mounting tension and a sense of underlying menace. The Eighth Concerto from 1972 was commissioned and premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. It is a substantial piece of outright virtuosity, with dissonance, trenchant dialogues and a fraught atmosphere. The much earlier Sonata da camera for harpsichord and ten instruments finds Petrassi poised between neo-Classicism and a more modernist direction." (naxos.com) " It’s music of great resource and dramatic potency, even when the musical ideas themselves are not especially memorable. The performances from the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma under Francesco La Vecchia feel utterly secure." (The Guardian)