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Casella - Notte di Maggio, Cello Concerto, Scarlattiana  | Naxos - Italian Classics 8572416

Casella - Notte di Maggio, Cello Concerto, Scarlattiana

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Label: Naxos - Italian Classics

Cat No: 8572416

Barcode: 0747313241675

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 27th September 2010

Contents

Artists

Olivia Andreini (mezzo-soprano)
Andrea Noferini (cello)
Sun Hee You (piano)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma

Conductor

Francesco La Vecchia

Works

Casella, Alfredo

Cello Concerto, op.58
Notte di Maggio (A Night in May), op.20
Scarlattiana

Artists

Olivia Andreini (mezzo-soprano)
Andrea Noferini (cello)
Sun Hee You (piano)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma

Conductor

Francesco La Vecchia

About

From mysterious moonlit night to joyous sunlit day, this recording runs the gamut of Alfredo Casella’s huge stylistic range.

Notte di maggio (‘A Night in May’), composed in the wake of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, is Casella at his most radical, while the delightful ‘Divertimento’ Scarlattiana finds him at his most relaxed, spicing up themes from Domenico Scarlatti’s keyboard sonatas – in the manner of Stravinsky’s Pulcinella.

Between them comes Casella’s Cello Concerto, its style influenced by the ‘baroque magnificence of Rome’, with a finale the composer called ‘the flight of the improved bumblebee’.

World premiere recording of Notte di maggio.

The performances here are excellent. Francesco La Vecchia drives the orchestra hard in the symphony, with a big payoff in terms of emotional spontaneity and impact…This boldly engineered disc is the first of four surveying Casella's orchestral music, and we can only look forward to the remaining issues with great enthusiasm. Recommended, without reservations.” Classics Today on Symphony No.1 (8572413)

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