CAPO D'ASTRO - BIRRO

Paolo Birro plays unaccompanied piano in a programme alternating Great American Songbook standards with original compositions. Capo d'astro brings out the relationship between the swing language of familiar songs and Birro's own studies, variations and nocturne.

Solo piano: standards and originals

Music by Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Cole Porter sits alongside nine original Birro pieces: five Studi, three Variazioni and a Notturno. The fifteen tracks were recorded in 1998.

Tracklist — 15 tracks

1. How Deep Is the Ocean — 2:38
2. Variazione n. 1 — 3:17
3. Studio n. 1 — 2:10
4. Notturno — 4:48
5. Studio n. 2 — 3:44
6. But Not for Me — 4:14
7. On the Sunny Side of the Street — 1:49
8. Variazione n. 2 — 4:55
9. All the Things You Are — 3:10
10. Studio n. 3 — 3:01
11. You Do Something to Me — 1:39
12. Variazione n. 3 — 2:34
13. It's You or No One — 2:53
14. Studio n. 4 — 3:10
15. Studio n. 5 — 4:39

Artist and instrument

Paolo Birro — solo piano. The recording features a 1930 Steinway & Sons D-274 grand piano in the library of the Istituto La Montanina at Velo d'Astico, near Vicenza, Italy.

Recording

Recorded live in the studio in May 1998, in the library of the Istituto La Montanina, a nineteenth-century villa associated with the writer Antonio Fogazzaro. Original album notes describe a 20-bit digital recording. Label: Velut Luna · Catalogue: CVLD016.

JBC formats

44.1 kHz / 16-bit PCM digital download — CD resolution (SKU CVLD016). The separate physical CD variant (SKU CVLD016CD) is currently sold out. The downloadable file is digital, not a physical CD.