Serenata Italiana - I Musici

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.