Pianist Roberto Prosseda, a champion of contemporary music, with the London Philharmonic conducted by Nir Kabaretti, present piano concertos from four Italian composers, two of which are premiere recordings. Written between 1900 and 2015, the works by Guido Alberto Fano, Luigi Dallapiccola, Silvio Omizzolo, and Cristian Carrara provide an overview of the piano concerto in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Italy. All four compositions are new to the WFMT library.

The album gets its title from the striking, yet accessible concerto by Cristian Carrara written in 2015. The composer summarizes the work: “It is an attempt to trace and describe silence, which exists even in war, be it in death or in life. The first movement, Trenches, is the most descriptive depiction of war as we know it, and it is the movement whose meaning has changed the most since 2015; the second, Solitudes, is more slender, referring to the fact that war often means loneliness, the breaking of ties. The third is entitled Fruts (‘children’ in Friulian): the children who represent life in spite of war.”