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Profumo di Violetta: Trovesi all’opera

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Label: ECM

Cat No: 1773124

Barcode: 0602517731240

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 20th October 2008

Artists

Gianluigi Trovesi
Filarmonica Mousike

Artists

Gianluigi Trovesi
Filarmonica Mousike

About

Italy’s great musical archaeologist and one of today’s outstanding improvisers, Gianluigi Trovesi, indulges his love for the drama and beauty of Italian opera with 'Trovesi all’opera – Profumo di Violetta'. Accompanied by a fantastic “banda”, the large wind orchestra with percussion heard in the on-stage-music of many operas by Donizetti and Verdi, the reedman takes us on a humorous journey through the history of the genre, enriched with light and playful improvisation. Both titles carry double meanings: the Italian expression for “Trovesi at the opera” is equivocal with “Trovesi at work”, while “Profumo di Violetta” simultaneously alludes to the protagonist of Verdi’s “La Traviata” and to the flower’s sweet perfume – while more religious and erotic associations linger in the background.

The importance of the Banda in Italian provincial society can hardly be overstated. These orchestras, which played at all major civic and religious celebrations, served as melting pot for the social classes. Traditional Banda repertoire, consisting of popular marches, waltzes, Neapolitan songs and – most importantly – operatic tunes, served as a kind of cultural memory that handed on popular musical treasures from generation to generation. Trovesi grew up listening to his local village banda near Bergamo and it inspired him to take up the clarinet as a boy.

Like most Bandas today, Filarmonica Mousiké have shifted their focus to original contemporary compositions, so developing into a concert orchestra. It was Trovesi’s idea to revisit Italian opera from an unconventional angle, juxtaposing famous and lesser known tunes and including orchestral excerpts that enhance the symphonic design. In Trovesi’s ingenious work the popular and the sublime, irony and unrestrained pathos meet with an improvisational spirit conveying the pure joy of music making.

Track Listing: (all music by Gianluigi Trovesi except where stated)
Il Prologo
(1) Alba
Il Mito
(2) Toccata (from L’Orfeo - Monteverdi)
(3) Musa
(4) Euridice
(5) Ninfe avernali
(6) Ritornello (from L’Orfeo - Monteverdi)
(7) Frammenti orfici
Il Ballo
(8) Intrecciar Ciaccone (based on Ciaccona - Cazzati)
Il Gioco delle Seduzioni
(9) “Pur ti miro” (from L’Incoronazione di Poppea - Monteverdi)
(10) “Stizzoso, mio stizzoso” (from La Serva Padrona - Pergolesi)
(11) Vespone
L’Innamoramento
(12) Profumo di Violetta Part I
(13) “Ah, fors’è lui che l’anima” (from La Traviata - Verdi)
(14) Profumo di Violetta Part II
(15) Violetta e le altre (Marco Remondini)
Il Saltellar Gioioso
(16) “È Piquillo, un bel gagliardo” (from La Traviata - Verdi)
(17) Salterellando
(18) Antico Saltarello (Anonymous)
(19) Salterello Amoroso
(20) “Largo al factotum” (from Il Barbiere di Siviglia - Rossini)
La Gelosia
(21) Aspettando compar Alfio (Rodolfo Matulich/Gianluigi Trovesi)
(22) “Il cavallo scalpita” (from Cavalleria Rusticana - Mascagni)
L’Epilogo
(23) Così, Tosca (Natale Arnoldi, based on Tosca - Puccini)

Total time: 61.26