Following the success of the previous three volumes in Naxos’s Martucci Orchestral Edition (8570929, 8570930, 8570931), the fourth presents the Italian composer’s Piano Concerto No. 2, a spaciously Romantic work whose sweeping opening movement reaches a dramatic climax, setting the scene for a poignant Larghetto and a highly virtuosic finale.

The best known of Martucci’s later works, it made a considerable impression internationally when conducted by Anton Rubinstein, Toscanini, Weingartner and Mahler, often with the pianist-composer as soloist.

2009 marks the centenary of Martucci’s death