Dmitry Masleev would like to dedicate this album to his first child Adrian, who was born in January 2023. “I remember well my very first score, which was a gift from my parents: ‘The Seasons’ by Tchaikovsky. I was just a boy then, exhilarated by every piece I discovered in it! Looking at my baby boy, who was born at the beginning of this year, I feel that same energy of my childhood, the sincerity, curiosity, and fascination for each magical living sound… I have decided to record The Seasons to capture these sensations and to share them with my son and the rest of the world.” - Dmitry Masleev

The piano works on this CD date from different periods in Gian Francesco Malipiero’s creative life. From his unpublished juvenilia to the late Ricercar toccando, from the evocative Poemi asolani of 1916 to the disillusionment of the pieces written in the years following the First World War: a range of works that bear witness to the development of the composer’s conception of the piano miniature as a kind of intimate diary, between nostalgic impressions and aphoristic humour.