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RESPIGHI
Complete Orchestral Music Volume 4 [Incls 'Ancient Airs and Dances'] Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 8/Nov/2013 ] Brilliant Classics' survey of Respighi's complete orchestral music continues here, with a release that explores the Italian composer's modernising of the past, as well as two of his most mature creations, written in the last eleven years of his life. |
ALFREDO CASELLA
Concerto for Orchestra / Pagine di Guerra / Suite Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma / Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Dec/2012 ] Alfredo Casella identified three different periods in his composing career, and this disc features one work from each. The Suite in C major is early Casella, a fascinating combination of influences from the French Baroque through Domenico Scarlatti... |
FRANCO FERRARA
Ferrara: Fantasia tragica / Notte di tempesta / Burlesca / Preludio Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 21/Sep/2011 ] "There is a strong contrast between the warmer passages and a dark, menacing theme, proof that Ferrara knew how to keep dramatic tension in the music. (He) should become a household name, especially when played beautifully by the Sinfonica di Roma." |
GIAN FRANCESCO MALIPIERO
Impressioni dal vero & Pause del silenzio Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] These mainly world première recordings of five of Malipiero's most characteristic works fill an important gap in the catalogue. The Impressioni dal vero (Impressions from Life) express the composer's feelings amid nature and Italian rural life, from... |
CASELLA
La donna serpente Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma / Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jan/2013 ] This latest disc in the Naxos series of Casella's orchestral music represents what Casella felt was his 'definitive personality'. The Introduction, Aria and Toccata epitomises his 'monumental Baroque style' of the late 1920s and early 1930s. A few... |
GIOVANNI SGAMBATI
Sgambati: Symphony No. 1 Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jan/2013 ] His overture Cola di Rienzo exemplifies his richness of characterisation while the First Symphony is a major statement of breadth and intensity, admired by Grieg and Saint-Saëns, and often conducted by Toscanini. |
CASELLA
Sinfonia (Symphony No. 3), Op. 63 / Elegia eroica (‘Heroic Elegy’), Op. 29 Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma / Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Jul/2011 ] "the symphony, superbly played here, has a resolute individual voice and drive. The Elegia eroica, mourning victims of the First World War, blends poignancy and bitter anger." (The Daily Telegraph) |
MUZIO CLEMENTI
Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jan/2013 ] Muzio Clementi was 'The Father of the pianoforte', a performer, teacher, publisher and manufacturer of pioneering importance. But in addition to the works for piano, he also wrote a series of symphonies which, along with Cherubini's D major Symphony... |
GOFFREDO PETRASSI
Partita & Divertimento Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia, Carlo Putelli (tenor), Davide Malvestio (bass), Nuovo Coro Lirico Sinfonico Romano [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Mar/2013 ] Goffredo Petrassi was one of the most important Italian composers of the twentieth century. Beginning with the previously unrecorded Divertimento in C, this release focuses on Petrassi's compositions of the 1930s and 40s. |
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, MiNensemblet, Francesco La Vecchia
Franchetti: Symphony & Nella Foresta Nera - Wolf-Ferrari: Sinfonia da camera [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Jun/2024 ] Alberto Franchetti and Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari shared a similar dual heritage. |
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MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Orchestral Works [Includes 'Bolero'] (LP) Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, André Cluytens [ Warner Classics Vinyl / LP - released 1/Jun/2020 ] This LP includes three of Maurice Ravel's masterpieces, the Boléro, La Valse and the Rapsodie espagnole. The recordings where painstakingly remastered in 24-bit/96kHz sound from original tapes for the Cluytens Edition made in 2017 |
GEORGES BIZET / GABRIEL FAURE / CHARLES GOUNOD
Bizet: L'Arlésienne Suites & music by Faure & Gounod Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Kazuki Yamada [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 23/Dec/2013 ] This is the first album of a series of three which feature ballet/theatre/dance music... |
BRUCKNER
Symphony No. 1 in C minor (1866 version) Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marek Janowski [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Apr/2013 ] "Janowski's Scherzo is very high-energy, his finale, Beethovenian in its urgency, a fraught but ultimately victorious journey with excellent trumpets and timpani at the end...I like Janowski's Bruckner, its basic honesty and refusal to superimpose... |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marek Janowski [ Pentatone SACD / 10in - released 30/Jul/2013 ] This is the penultimate release in PentaTone's Bruckner Symphonies cycle with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. |
BRUCKNER
Symphony No. 4 in Eb Major 'Romantic' Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marek Janowski [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 21/Oct/2013 ] This is the last release in PentaTone's Bruckner Symphonies cycle with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. |
BRUCKNER
Symphony No. 5 in B flat major Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Marek Janowski [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2010 ] "Instead of monumentalising Bruckner's sculpted shapes, Janowski and the orchestra give them a rhythmic urgency and transparency. At those rare moments when Bruckner does relent, Janowski relaxes the tempo just enough to let it speak." The Telegraph,... |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
The Essential Stravinsky (Incls Symphony in E flat, le Chant du Rossignol, Petrushka, The Rite of Spring & Oedipus Rex) Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2002 ] All the best of Stravinsky in a specially priced CD set. |
JOACHIN RAFF
Symphony No 2 / Four Shakespeare Preludes Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Jarvi [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2013 ] "Järvi and his Suisse Romande players seem to be having a whale of a time, or least that's the impression that these extremely vital performances suggest...a perfect place to dip a toe into Raffian waters." (Gramophone) |
EMMANUEL CHABRIER
Neeme Järvi conducts Emmanuel Chabrier Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Järvi [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 19/Jul/2013 ] "the unifying feeling [is] the sheer joy, craftsmanship and radiance that Chabrier's music possesses and which these performances encapsulate so ear-catchingly." (Gramophone) |
JACQUES IBERT
Neeme Järvi conducts Ibert Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Järvi [ Chandos Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2016 ] "Ibert emerges from it all as a fine composer, whose unity lies in his almost impudent diversity, and who is often far from frivolous as some have maintained..the disc allows Järvi to show off his Swiss orchestra to perfection. Very fine" Gramophone |
