The dynamic young Italian
conductor and his Tuscan orchestra are on scintillating and often witty
form...there’s a whiff of Shostakovich about the Concerto for Piano,
Timpani, Percussion and Strings from 1943 (so sparsely scored in places
that long stretches sound like chamber-music), whilst the spiky,
brightly-coloured neo-Baroque world of Scarlattiana of 1926 is second
cousin to Stravinsky.
