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World music CD DVD shop and Classic distribution
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ID: STR37082
Disk: 1
Type: CD
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Kolekce: Baroque |
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ID: STR33880
Disk: 2
Type: CD
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Podkolekce: Flute
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ID: STR33800
Disk: 2
Type: CD
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ID: STR33791
Disk: 2
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ID: STR33933
Disk: 2
Type: CD
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Francesco Parrino, violin
Michele Fedrigotti, piano
Louis SPohr (1784-1859)
CD1
Duo concertant in G minor, op. 95
Duo concertant in F major, op. 96 “reisesonate”
CD 2
Grand duo concertant in E major, op. 112
Sechs Duettinen “Elegisch und humoristisch”, op. 127
Founder of the German violin school and author of an authoritative method - the Violin School, published in 1832 -, Louis Spohr (Brunswick 1784 - Kassel 1859), was a prominent artist in the Germany after the Congress of Vienna, admired (mutual admiration) by Mendelssohn, Schumann and Chopin.
Today we remember him above all for his substantial chamber production, which includes four splendid Double Concertos for strings. Spohr, however, also wrote theatrical works like Faust (1813), which together with Hoffmann’s Undine is one of the first significant examples of German romantic theatre, leading to the masterpieces of Carl Maria von Weber. He conducted the Frankfurt Opera from ’17 to ’22 and he did so as a pioneer in orchestral conducting in the modern sense (like Weber, he used the baton and not a rolledup sheet of music or the violin bow). [...]
A violinist who left his mark on his era (but for Brahms he would be “the last of the Classics”), Spohr came into contact with Niccolò Paganini (in Venice in 1816), who stated, according to ”Allgemeine Musikalisce Zeitung”, that he was “the first and most excellent cantante on this instrument”. The description cantante is absolutely right, to judge from the full cantabilità, elegant but complete and very varied that must have been a strong point of the instrumentalist. This is emphasised by newspaper reviews: Spohr surpasses Paganini “regarding the cantabile and above all the solemnity of the inflection” (also from the “Allgemeine”).
In any case, it is remarkable and fluent melodic inventiveness which characterises Spohr’s work, very marked right from the first pieces and particularly important in the only one of the seventeen Concertos for violin remaining in the repertory, although discontinuously, Op. 47 in A minor In Form einer Gesangszene (1816).
Here Spohr the theatrical composer and director at Frankfurt combines cantabilità and opera modules in a pure instrumental form. |
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ID: STR00506
Disk: 2
Type: CD
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Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Violin
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ID: STR57012
Disk: 2
Type: CD
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Podkolekce: Opera
A new chapter in the Ricordi Oggi series, the collection that enacts the strong partnership between Stradivarius and the prestigious Casa Ricordi publishing house.
This world première recording is dedicated to Luca Francesconi and his Ballata, a two-act opera whose libretto, by Umberto Fiori, is based upon S. T. Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Francesconi confirms his particular confidence for large-scale musical thought, rather than merely show a flair for illustrative brilliance.
"Coleridge’s Mariner confronts a natural world that is implacably adverse, one that [...] remains magnificently indifferent to its needs. To respond to that requires a sense of pacing, of large-scale dynamic proportion, that must prevail over any proclivity to exuberant detail.[...] That sense of scale [...] is everywhere in Francesconi’s recent work. [...] Fiori’s fine libretto is so constructed as to allow for the enchained series of numbers that are integral to that form of dramaturgy, because they pace the opera’s progress through a sequence of images and actions whose synopsis could be presented in a few, trite sentences, but whose power and resonance can only be felt when worked through at the slow, remorseless pace common to Francesconi’s opera, and Coleridge’s poem” David Osmond-Smith, liner notes.
Thanos Adamopoulos, concertmaster
Renato Balsadonna, chorus- master |
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ID: STR37051
Disk: 2
Type: CD
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