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2024-01-13 08:44:00
A shelter where people can be sure of quality and find so much to discover: founder Michael Adda on his record label, La Dolce Volta
[…] discs would be recorded under the best conditions and the musicians would not have to contribute anything to recording costs. As a result, the musicians themselves become the best ambassadors for the label.The first disc was very expensive to produce as everything was new, and they made no profit, but the results were amazing. These first discs were all keyboard, and out of the blue, he received a phone call from the distinguished pianist Aldo Ciccolini (1925-2015). At the time, Ciccolini was over 80 and fed up with his previous label. He was free and interested in recording for La Dolce Volta, saying that Michael was crazy but that he, Ciccolini, was crazy too. Ciccolini's only condition was that the sound quality had to be first-rate; that first CD, of Ciccolini in Mozart went worldwide. This was the beginning of the adventure.Other musicians came partly because of Ciccolini but also because of […]
2023-09-11 13:54:48
From Renaissance to Baroque. 2023
[…] also Arvo Pärt, Clara Schumann and William Boyce, who, like Beethoven, went deaf but continued, for a while, to compose and play the organ). We wanted to go back a month and commemorate some of the composers born during that time: too many to mention, but two of them, Henry Purcell and Antonin Dvorak, were born last week. And of course, we’ve missed a lot of performers and conductors, among whom were the pianists Aldo Ciccolini and Maria Yudina, Ginette Neveu (violin) and William Primrose (viola), the singers Kathleen Battle and Angela Gheorghiu, and conductors Wolfgang Sawallisch and Karl Böhm. Till next time, then.
2022-04-25 05:49:00
Violin Sonatas (CD review)
[…] Music Web International refers to his interpretations as having a “vitality and an imagination that are looking unequivocally to the future” and that reach an “almost ideal balance between the expressive and the intellectual.” Gramophone lauds his “unfailing assurance and eloquence” and Strings Magazine notes that he is “a young chamber musician of extraordinary sensitivity."Monteiro’s accompanist, the Spanish pianist Joao Paulo Santos, is a graduate of the Lisbon National Conservatory, completing his piano studies in Paris with Aldo Ciccolini. For the past forty years he has worked with the Lisbon Opera House, first as Chief Chorus Conductor and more recently as Director of Musical and Stage Studies. He has also distinguished himself as an opera conductor, a concert pianist, and a researcher. Together, Monteiro and Santos make an outstanding team and make outstanding music.On the present album, they offer three sonatas for violin and piano. The first, by Luis De Freitas Branco (1890-1955), […]
2021-08-09 13:47:46
composers and Solomon, 2021
[…] a famed trio with the violinist Zino Francescatti and cellist Pierre Fournier. Solomon brilliantly played a broad repertoire, including Brahms, Liszt and Tchaikovsky. He was a great interpreter of such disparate composers as Beethoven and Chopin. Here is Chopin’s Berceuse, recorded in 1946. Solomon loved to play Brahms’s Intermezzo in C Major Op. 119 No. 3, both during the main program or as an encore. Here’s a recording from 1952. The wonderful Italian pianist Aldo Ciccolini was born on August 15th of 1925. Also this week: the brilliant violinist Ginette Neveu, born on the 11th of August of 1919, who tragically died in a place crash at the age of 30.
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