Vittorio Gnecchi News
Italian composer (1876-1954)
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2019-04-15 03:30:00
Cassandra - Gnecchi - World Première
Vittorio Gnecchi (1876-1954) Cassandra Denia Mazzola-Gavazzeni, Tea Demurishvili, Alberto Cupido Arnold Kocharyan, Nikola Mijailovic, Pierre Lebon Latvian Radio Chorus Orchestre National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon dir: Enrique Diemecke Agora Musica (2000) AG 260.2 DDD 2 CDs (excellent sound) Rec.live RadioFrance, July 13, 2000 at Opéra Berlioz-Le Corum [flac & cue, cover, inlays, booklet & disc scans] Review "Vittorio Gnecchi's Cassandra initially seemed headed for certain success. Toscanini himself conducted the 1905 Bologna premiere, but the Byzantine machinations of Italian musical politics foreshortened the piece's Italian performance history, and forced Toscanini to break off relations with the composer. The occasion of Salome's 1906 Italian debut inadvertently set the stage for a scandal, when Gnecchi offered Richard Strauss the piano-vocal score of Cassandra. When both Cassandra and Strauss's new Elektra both were performed in Dresden during the 1908-9 season, "surprising similarities" (as the booklet puts it) were noted between the two […]
2016-10-11 15:00:21
Future imperfect
Teatro Grattacielo, the sturdy little company that has presented Italian verismo rarities in concert for twenty-two years, always gives us something to ponder plus a couple of young singers we’re thrilled to encounter. The works themselves have varied, from once-popular antiques of faded, fragrant charm like Zazá, Iris and L’Oracolo to obscurities that seem impressively ready for a proper staging, like La Nave, Siberia and (you were waiting for it, weren’t you?) I Cavalieri d’Ekebù. This year’s treat was Vittorio Gnecchi’s Cassandra, completed around 1905, a piece with a checkered past, recently disarchived. A couple of remarkable recent presentations can be found on youtube, but this appears to be the work’s first American performance since Rosa Raisa sang it in Philadelphia in 1914. Ergo, a New York premiere! With all that that entails. The place: Gerald Lynch Theater at John Jay College, down the street from Lincoln Center, which acoustically […]
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