Sonata Op.78 in C Major. Composed and performed by Marzia Gaggioli © 2009.

Sonata in F sharp minor Op.70 Composed and performed by Marzia Gaggioli © 2009.

Short Sonata in E flat Major Op.122 N.1

Sonata in E minor Op.110 N.1. Composed and performed by Marzia Gaggioli © 2010.

Sonata in G sharp minor Op.104 N.1 composed and performed by Marzia Gaggioli © 2010.

Little Sonata in F major Op.45 N.2 Composed and performed by Marzia Gaggioli © 2009.

Sonata in D Minor Op.126 N.2 Composed and performed by Marzia Gaggioli © 2012.

Sonata Op.38 N.2 in Sol Minore. A little Sonata in G Minor, Op.38 N.2

Sonata in C major Op.110 N.3 Composed and performed by Marzia Gaggioli © 2010.

Sonata in C minor Op.85 N.3 Composed and performed by Marzia Gaggioli © 2009.

Sonata Op.45 N.3 in A Minor

Little Sonata in D minor Op.122 N.3 Composed and performed by Marzia Gaggioli © 2012.

The Piano Sonata No.5 was composed between August 22, 1984, and October 8, 1984, and shortly after it was dedicated to commemorate Union Carbide’s culpable accident at its insecticide plant in the Indian city of Bhopal on December 3, 1984, in which about 8000 people died almost immediately and many more were affected for years. It is written in a single movement with three themes presented in an overwhelming moto perpetuo. The first one begins with a four-note chromatic scale based on an anagram of Bach's name. The second one combines two broken chords of diminished fifth and augmented fifth. The last one is a rhythmic variant of the second one, contrasting in its construction with major chords used in timbral function over a pedal of alternating octaves in the bass. The first two themes undergo an extensive development which, after a brief interlude of a more lyrical character, leads to a fugato. Here both themes are continuously interwoven, presented in different isolated and combined variants, with inversions, retrogradations and stretti. After revisiting the third theme, a new lyric version of the first two leads to the recapitulation. The work ends with an overlap of both themes in a frantic waterfall that leads to an unresolved dissonant chord.

The Piano Sonata-Fantasy No.4 was completed on January 12, 1984, and it is dedicated to the deceased and wounded during the Malvinas Islands war in 1982. It expresses a musical criticism to war and its consequences. The first theme, based on a repeated motif followed by a chromatic answer, leads immediately to the second theme. After a short development, a third, episodic theme is presented. An ample development follows in which the main themes appear in lyric, contrapuntal or improvisatory versions. After the recapitulation a quasi cadenza takes place leading to the coda. The second movement is a funeral dirge dominated by iridescent harmonies. It begins with a marcial air in diminished mode ascending from the deep bass which is followed by an andean tune representing a young soldier from the Argentinean Northwest marching to death in an absurd war. After a more hectic central episode the first theme is revisted in a heroic mood. The movement ends with a mysteroius arpeggio displaying the twelve tones of the chromatic scale. The third movement is a rondo-sonata on a theme that recalls the first theme of the first movement. A second theme is presented and developed in a contrapuntal way. The marcial air of the second movement reappears in different mood, along with abbreviated versions of its final arpeggio. After a last occurence of the main theme, the work ends with several whole-tone scales and a chord with modal ambiguity.

1. Ut majeur : à 8 7. Ut majeur : à 5 2. Ré majeur : à 6 8. Sol majeur : à 5 3. Sol mineur : à 6 9. Si bémol majeur : à 5 4. Ut majeur : à 5 10. Sol mineur : à 5 5. Mi mineur : à 6 11. La majeur : à 5 6. Fa majeur : à 5 12. Ut majeur : à 8 The Rare Fruits Coucil Direction : Manfredo Kraemer - 1997

1. Allegro 2. Adagio e staccato 3. Allegro Musica Antiqua de Cologne Direction : Reinhard Goebel - 1992