Marco Enrico Bossi Intermezzi Goldoniani op. 127 1. Preludio e minuetto (Allegro con fuoco-Con grazia) 5.59 2. Gagliarda (Vivace) 4.01 3. Coprifuoco (Blandamente) 5.08 4. Minuetto e musetta (Con moto) 3.37 5. Serenatina (Allegretto tranquillo) 3.10 6. Burlesca (Con molto brio) 2.58
Ottorino Respighi Antiche Danze ed Arie per liuto Terza Suite per archi 7. Ignoto: Italiana (fine del sec. XVI) 2.58 8. Giov. Batt. Besardo: Aria di Corte (sec. XVI) 7.50 9. Ignoto: Siciliana (fine del sec. XVI) 2.57 10. Lodovico Roncalli: Passacaglia (1692) 4.00
Nino Rota Concerto per archi 11. Preludio (Allegro ben moderato e cantabile) 3.33 12. Scherzo (Allegretto comodo) 3.56 13. Aria (Andante quasi adagio) 4.31 14. Finale (Allegrissimo) 2.57
Giacomo Puccini Crisantemi 15. Andante Mesto 6.33
Conceived, recorded and produced by Giulio Cesare Ricci
Recorded at Teatro Comunale Francesco Paolo Tosti in Ortona (CH) Recording date October 22th - 25th, 2008 Recording assistant Paola Liberato Valve microphones Neumann U47, U 48, M49 mike pre-amplifiers: line, digital, microphone, supply cables Signoricci recorded in stereo DSD on the Pyramix Recorder using dCS A/D and D/A converters Many thanks for their support: Amministrazione comunale di Ortona and Istituto Nazionale tostiano
Can a twentieth-century serenade exist? Can two apparently antinomic terms be compared? (this is how they were read for a long time). How can the expression of a poetic and musical form chosen as the privileged vehicle of a love relationship (which we often imagine to be saccharine and cloying) be reconciled with the anxiety of renewal, of adhesion to the new, to technology, to the magnificent and progressive fortunes of the early twentieth century? This is the question to which I Musici have attempted to give an artistic answer with Serenata italiana, which leads us through a listening journey that covers a time span from the end of the nineteenth century to the 1960s. The mentor of the musical journey is a figure who in various ways overshadows the lives of the protagonists: Arturo Toscanini.
Lyrical comedy in three acts by P. Suardon Music by Pietro Mascagni Edizioni Casa Musicale Sonzogno by Piero Ostali, Milan
Characters and performers: Suzel SANDRA PACETTI Fritz Kobus PIETRO BALLO Beppe PAOLA ROMANO' David ARMANDO ARIOSTINI Federico CARLO BOSI Hanezò FILIPPO MILITANO Caterina ALESSANDRA ROSSI Conductor ALESSANDRO PINZAUTI ORCHESTRA TUSCAN INSTRUMENTAL ACADEMY COOPERATIVA ARTISTI ASSOCIATI CHOIR directed by STEFANO VISCONTI
V. Pivovarov, M. Werba, A. Grato, T. Monogarova, M. Palazzi, M. Lehotsky, A. Elliot, M. Panova, R. Sharp Wexford Festival Opera Chorus Young Wexford Singers National Philarmonic Orchestra of Belarus - A. Voloschuk: conductor
S. Costa, A. Antonov, E. Morozova, F. Zahradnícek, D. Kelly Wexford Festival Opera Chorus - National Philarmonic Orchestra of Belarus - D. Callegari: conductor Wexford Festival Opera, 2001
Friedrich Flotow (1812 - 1883) Alessandro Stradella