This recording celebrates the ongoing attraction of Italy and especially Rome as a place of artistic pilgrimage and inspiration.
It premieres Australian composer Michael Kieran Harvey’s Carpe Diem (2015) in context with Italian-inspired solo piano works by signi cant composers of the past, including the Italian composers Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968), the Hungarian Franz Liszt (1811-1886), the American Charles Gries (1885-1920) and the Frenchman Pierre Petit (1922-2000).
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