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2024-02-26 15:10:33
Luigi Dallapiccola, Part I, 2024
[…] end of the war. Luigi studied the piano in Trieste and in 1922 moved to Florence, where he continued with piano studies and composition, first privately and then at the conservatory. During that time, he was so much taken by the music of Debussy that he stopped composing for three years, trying to absorb the influence. A very different influence was Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, which Luigi heard in 1924 at a concert organized by Alfredo Casella (in the following years, Casella would become a big supporter and promoter of Dallapiccola’s music). Upon graduation, Dallapiccola started giving recitals around Italy, later securing a position at the Florence Conservatory where he taught for more than 30 years, till 1967 (among his students was Luciano Berio). In 1930 in Vienna, he heard Mahler’s First Symphony, which also affected him strongly: at the time, Mahler’s music was practically unknown in Italy. In the 1930s, […]
2022-05-17 04:19:51
Thirty-fifth festival returns to near-normal with five days of activities By Peter Alexander May 16 at 10:20 p.m. It has only been nine months since the COVID-postponed 34th Colorado MahlerFest, but the festival is returning in its usual May slot and with a full schedule this week. Performances in the 35th festival include the usual […]
2021-10-12 09:07:56
A chance to hear Alfredo Casella's Concerto for Orchestra next week, performed by the Kensington Symphony Orchestra
Alfredo Casella The Italian composer, pianist and conductor Alfredo Casella (1883-1947) had a remarkably varied career. He was one of the generazione dell'ottanta (generation of '80), which included Casella himself, Malipiero, Respighi, Pizzetti, and Alfano; composers born around 1880, the post-Puccini generation who concentrated on writing instrumental works, rather than operas. Coming from a musical family (his cellist grandfather was a friend of Paganini, his father, mother and brothers were all musicians) he studied composition at the Paris Conservatoire with Faure, where Enescu and Ravel were fellow students and he became acquainted with Debussy, Stravinsky and Falla. From 1927-1929 he as the principal conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra (to be succeeded by Arthur Fiedler whose name is indelibly linked to the Boston Pops). As a composer his biggest success was with his ballet La Giara to a scenario by Pirandello! And his organisation of a Vivaldi Week in 1939 helped to kick-start […]
2020-12-29 10:50:00
Presenting my thirty-three best CDs of 2020
[…] of the supplementary licensed repertoire is the wisely-chosen Rubbra and Moeran disc with Raphael Wallfisch licensed from Naxos. My advocacy of Brilliant Classic's Cello Sonatas Edition needs go no further than listing the featured composers: Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Lanzetti, Haendel, Caporale, Geminiani, Pericoli, Boccherini, Beethoven, Moscheles, Hummel, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Alkan, Schubert, Franck, Cilea, Debussy, Roslavets, Pilati, Grieg, Poulenc, Röntgen, Saint-Saëns, Brahms, Martucci, Fauré, Kodály, Pizzetti, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Miaskovski, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Glazounov, Prokofiev, Richard Strauss, Thuille, Casella, Rubbra, Moearan, Shostakovitch, Schnittke, Britten, and Kapustin. Brilliant Classic's Cello Sonata Edition offers hours of rewarding listening to both established masterpieces and new discoveries for remarkably little cost - I paid just over £1 a disc. It is very good music played by very fine musicians without the obligatory sprinkling of social media stardust, and it is not released by Universal Classics. Which is why it and similar gems are not spun by the […]
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