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Italian conductor (1867-1957)
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2023-12-14 04:30:00
Is It Time for New Classic Recordings?
by Bill HeckAll right, I admit it, I confess: I'm spoiled by modern digital recordings by amazing musicians. Many readers of Classical Candor have been around long enough to know about the "classic" recordings of classical music, the ones on any number of "recommended performances" lists. Whose collection of recordings would be complete without, say, the Reiner / Chicago recording of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, the Kleiber / Vienna Beethoven 5 and 7 pairing, or Beecham’s conducting of anything by Delius? I'm speaking here of stereo recordings, which puts us after the mid-1950s or so. There are specialists, as well as the more curious among us, who want to hear Toscanini's Beethoven symphony cycle, or Schnabel's set of the piano concertos, recordings of Rachmaninoff playing his own works: the list goes on and on, and for those folks, even bad recordings are better than no recordings at all. But […]
2023-11-30 07:33:00
A distinctive voice & a richly rewarding sound-world: songs by Franco Alfano from Anna Pirozzi & Emma Abbate
Franco Alfano: Songs; Anna Pirozzi, Emma Abbate, Bozidar Vukotic; Resonus ClassicsReviewed 28 November 2023Alfano's rather dim reputation as a 20th century opera composer does not prepare you for the surprisingly rich and rewarding sound-world of his songsYou cannot help but feel that the Italian composer Franco Alfano (1876-1954) has received a poor deal from musical history. Despite his 1904 opera, Risurrezione, retaining a toe-hold in the repertoire, Alfano remains best known as the man who completed Puccini's Turandot, yet the completion of the opera that we commonly hear today was heavily revised by the conductor Arturo Toscanini, and Alfano's original rarely gets an outing.This disc from soprano Anna Pirozzi and pianist Emma Abbate with cellist Bozidar Vukotic on Resonus Classics takes a different look at Alfano, featuring a programme of his songs, from his Cinq mélodies, written when he was a 21-year-old student at the Leipzig Conservatoire right through to Due liriche per canto, […]
2023-06-10 00:01:00
Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini. Omer Meir Wellber, conductor; Jan Vogler, violoncello. June 8, 2023.
Kulturpalast, Dresden, Germany. 1. Rang links, J (Seat 1-10, 55 euros).ProgramOverture to Macbeth by Verdi (1813-1901).Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major by Shostakovich (1906-1975).Overture to Lohengrin by Wagner (1813-1883).Symphony No. 6 in E minor op. 74 Pathetique by Tchaikovsky (1840-1893).Vogel and Wellber after the performance of the Shostakovich Cello Concerto.We are stopping for a couple of days in Dresden during our trip in Europe, and thus able to attend this concert. The pieces are familiar to various extent, and this would be my first encounter with all the performers (I thought, wrongly, that I had heard Vogler before).While one could point out miscues here and there - one violinist clearly jumped the gun at one point - this was overall a very enjoyable concert.For the two overtures, both reflecting the less well-known styles of the respective composers, the orchestra did an excellent job of bringing out the nuances of […]
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2023-03-22 10:42:11
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