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Italian composer
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- classical guitar, piano
- classical guitar
- United States of America, Italy, Kingdom of Italy
- composer, pianist, film score composer
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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 […]
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
2021-12-18 09:45:13
Something more raw, that goes back to the origins of the stories: I chat to composer Glen Gabriel about his new album, Norse Mythology
Glen Gabriel The Swedish composer Glen Gabriel is best known for his film and commercial work, with more than 20 feature films including James Cameron's The Game Changers as well as some 700 episodes for television shows. He also works as a music producer and recent work includes pianist Jennifer Thomas' The Fire Within (for which Glen was nominated for the Hollywood Media Awards). He wrote Passing By for Zurich Ballet in 2014, and his music has been used for the World Figure Skating Championships 2021, and by Russian and South Korean gymnasts at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics. But he has also produced a series of albums, including Silent Decisions and Scandinavian Folklore, on Audio Network, the latest of which, Norse Mythology, also released through Audio Network, features Glen's musical re-working of Norse myth with an orchestra recorded at Abbey Road Studios. The album features eight tracks, […]
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