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Italian pianist and composer (1828-1856)
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2018-04-01 10:20:10
Somewhere for the weekend: Plaster casts, piano music and Puccini: Sandro Ivo Bartoli in Pisa
The pianist Sandro Ivo Bartoli's recent Bach disc was reviewed on this blog in February this year [see my review]. If you fancy a trip to Italy, there is the chance to hear Bartoli live in a variety of repertoire as he is in the middle of a three-concert series at the Gipsoteca di Arte Antica, Palazzo San Paolo all'Orto, Pizza, which is the University of Pisa's collection of plaster casts. The second concert of the series, on 6 April, Viaggio in Italia, features Respighi's Frescobaldi transcription Passacaglia, music by Clementi and Liszt, including Liszt's Due Leggende di San Francesco and Cantico di San Francesco. Then on 20 April there is Il pianista all'opera with transcriptions of Verdi by Liszt and Fumagalli, Donizetti by Leschetizky (for left hand only) and Tchaikovsky by Pabst, taking in Jerusalem, La Traviata, Lucia di Lammermoor and Eugene Onegin plus Puccini's complete works for piano. Further […]
2017-09-22 23:00:00
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater (Dantone)
After Jommelli (→post) and Perez (→post) here it is another composer born at the end of the baroque era whose art flourished in Naples: Pergolesi with his sacred masterpiece. I recommend also Jommelli's Beatus Vir in the second CD of this post. The third CD concerns the same years but a different location: a composer from Padua working in Würzburg.Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)Stabat MaterNicola Porpora (1686-1768)Salve ReginaRoberta Invernizzi soprano, Sonia Prina contraltoAccademia BizantinaOttavio DantoneAmadeus AM 180-2 (2004)[flac, cue, log, scans] Georg Friedrich Handel (1685-1759)Dixit DominusNiccolò Jommelli (1714-1774)Beatus VirRachel Redmond soprano, Marta Fumagalli contraltoGhislieri Choir & ConsortGiulio PrandiAmadeus AM 301-2 (2014)[flac, cue, log, scans] Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697-1763)3 Concertos for Cello and Strings2 Concerti gossi after Sonatas by Corelli (op.5)Stefano Veggetti cello and conductorEnsemble CordiaClassic Voice/Antiqua CA 11 (2012)[flac, cue, log, scans]Platti's year of death was wrong in the back cover. You can download the corrected image separately.
2016-08-04 19:45:38
Espada/Redmond/Fumagalli/Ghislieri Choir and Consort/Prandi (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi)At the end of 1706, the 21-year-old Handel arrived in Rome from Germany and immediately started making a stir in the wider musical world. The three vocal and choral works chosen by Giulio Prandi and his Pavia-based Ghislieri Consort, all recorded live in concert, date from the ensuing 12 months. Dixit Dominus sounds spirited and shapely, if not ideally pointed; the higher choral voices especially seem far back in the mix. British soprano Rachel Redmond impresses among a mixed bag of soloists. Handel geeks will be more excited by the two relatively unfamiliar cantatas. Ah Che Troppo Ineguali comprises a recitative and long aria, sung with poise by the soprano Maria Espada. Donna, Che in Ciel is more substantial, and we can hear Handel’s confidence and originality in arias such as Sorge Pure dall’Orrido Averno, which has unison strings overlapping with and anticipating the […]
2015-09-20 09:00:02
Adalberto Maria Riva, piano (Toccata)Happy 10th birthday, Toccata Classics. The creation of indefatigable Martin Anderson, the label has so far released 240 CDs, representing the work of 152 sometimes overlooked, often interesting composers (54 of them living). This disc is a perfect example of its mission to promote neglected music. In his short life, Adolfo Fumagalli (1828-1856), known as the Paganini of the piano, was revered by Liszt for his dazzling technique and compositional skill. Adalberto Maria Riva makes a convincing advocate here, particularly in an extraordinary grande fantasie for left hand based on Meyerbeer’s Robert le diable. The laconic Fumagalli wrote or arranged several pieces for the left hand so, they say, he could hold a cigar with his right while performing. Continue reading...
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