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A distinctive voice & a richly rewarding sound-world: songs by Franco Alfano from Anna Pirozzi & Emma Abbate
[…] 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, violoncello e pianoforte from 1949. Emma Abbate seems to be making something of a project of reviving unjustly neglected 20th century Italian song and previous on Resonus she has released discs of Ildebrando Pizzetti's songs with Hanna Hipp [see my review] and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's settings of Shakespeare's sonnets with Ashley Riches [see my review]. This disc reveals another, rather striking Italian 20th-century voice.Alfano's posthumous reputation suffered because of his willingness to be associated with the Fascist regime, but the same is true of other composers such as Mascagni. Alfano was a prolific composer, his output covers far more than just opera, including two symphonies, three string quartets, significant chamber music as well as songs. And the fascinating thing […]
2023-10-26 04:00:00
Gitarmusik aus der Zeit der Wiener Klassik (Duo Tedesco)
Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829)Grand Variazione Concertanti Op. 35Overture from The Barber of Seville (Rossini)Ferdinando Carulli (1770-1841) Nocturne Concertanti Op.143Napoléon Coste (1806-1883)Grand DuoJohann Kaspar Mertz, (1806-1856)Three SongsDuo Tedesco (B & E Hölzer)Koch/Schwann 3-1040-2 H1 (1992)[Flac & Scans]
2022-06-29 00:29:02
Nearby are Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Oscar Levant, Gregor Piatigorsky, Helen Traubel, and Frank Zappa, not to mention Billy Wilder, Josef von Sternberg, and Marilyn Monroe. Previously: Lubitsch, Korngold, Salieri, Bruckner, Liszt, Georg Trakl, Willa Cather and Edith Lewis, Thomas Mann, Bach,...
2022-01-27 18:00:06
Once in a while you hear such incredibly beautiful music for the first time that you just can’t understand why it has remained under wraps for so long. The Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 by the Italian-born composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco are a case in point. Originally championed in the 1920s and 30s by no less
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