Franco Alfano: Piano Quintet in A-flat Major 

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Franco Alfano (1875-1954)
Piano Quintet in A-flat Major
I. Largo 0:00​
II. Moderato con grazia 12:40​
III. Allegro 20:24​
Scott Dunn, piano
Elmira Darvarova, violin I
Mary Ann Mumm, violin II
Craig Mumm, viola
Sam Magill, cello
Franco Alfano (1875 - 1954) was an Italian composer and pianist, best known today for his opera Risurrezione (1904) and for having completed Puccini's opera Turandot in 1926. He had considerable success with several of his own works during his lifetime. Alfano was born in Posillipo, Naples. He attended piano lessons given privately by Alessandro Longo, and harmony and composition respectively under Camillo de Nardis (1857-1951) and Paolo Serrao at the conservatory San Pietro a Majella in Naples. Later, after graduating, he pursued further composition studies with Hans Sitt and Salomon Jadassohn in Leipzig. While working there he met his idol, Edvard Grieg, and wrote numerous piano and orchestral pieces. From 1918 he was Director of the Conservatory of Bologna, from 1923 Director of the Turin Conservatory, and from 1947 to 1950 Director of the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro. Alfano died in San Remo.