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ID: CNT2053
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: String instruments
STEREO DDD - 32 bit recording, 96 kHz
Booklet: Italiano / English
Two small gems, Duets for violin & viola KV 423 and 424, and a renowned masterpiece, Divertimento KV 563, are presented in this recording. The Duetti are particularly precious for the quality of the writing and because it is rare to find pieces written by Mozart for two instruments (in fact, if we discount the twelve duets for basset-horn, opera 411, a few transcriptions from Bach, and of course, the Sonatas for keyboard and instrument, there are no such others among Mozart's works). Contrary to common practice of the time, in these two pieces, both instruments bear equal weight and the result is a dialogue between near equals, with the viola being just as important as the violin. As far as the Divertimento is concerned, much has been written: Mila's comment sums it up best when he wrote: a smile from angels, purified of all earthly misery.
The exceptional performers from the well-known Quartetto della Scala di Milano executed this recording on antique instruments: a Gennaro Gagliano viola made in 1800 and a Giovanbattista Guadagnini violin made in 1773. |
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ID: PTC5186097
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Subcollection: Chamber Orchestra
Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD |
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ID: PTC5186094
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Subcollection: Violin
Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD |
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ID: CNT2052
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Ensemble
World Premiere Recording
"Their work touches us because it is a mix of brutality, magic, sensuality and honesty - all of which are human." So spoke John Adams, one of the most important contemporary American composers, in comparing Neruda's poetry, Marquez's novels, Borges' writing and Piazzolla's music. All of these South American artists came to the attention of North American and European cultural circles almost simultaneously in the 1970's.
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) became popular in Europe when a few important performers - whose repertory was largely classical: Gidon Kremer, Yo Yo Ma, Daniel Barenboim - grew more interested in fusing musical styles. In fact the Argentinean musician's training was replete with classical influence. His music language has surely become very popular among various generations - it crosses various territories and music influences by conveying popular music together with a more cultured one: going from a kind of restlessness from the twentieth century to some Indios and African light influences based on ancient cultures from European descents who approached the river mouth of Rio de la Plata through various generation of migrants.
We experience the same cultural influence by listening to the Concerto by the Argentinean
contemporary composer Máximo Diego Pujol (Buenos Aires, 1957) which entitles the whole CD Luminosa Buenos Aires by being a world premiere too.
This very nice recording is enriched by awesomeness and quotations and brings to a sort of "sad feelings to be expressively transmitted through a dance" this is Tango, which starting from the beginning of the past century has been fascinating everyone in the world. |
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ID: PTC5186085
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Subcollection: Violin
Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD |
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ID: PTC5186071
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Subcollection: Trio
Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD
Storioni Trio
Bart van de Roer - piano
Wouter Vossen - violin
Marc Vossen - cello |
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ID: PTC5186114
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Subcollection: Piano
Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD
Recorded: Bad Homburg, Germany, 9/1974 |
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ID: CNT2048
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Violin
World Premiere Recording
DDD 32 bit recording - mastered at 64 bit
12 pages booklet I/E
Alberto Bologni, violin, Santo Serafino 1734
Giuseppe Fausto Modugno, fortepiano, Johann Schantz 1815
It's known that in the Hoboken catalogue, except for Hob:32 - which has been for a long time considered as the sole authentic Sonata for violin and piano by Haydn and published in Vienna in 1794 by Artaria - there isn't any further Sonata for these instruments; surely a bit surprising since we are talking about the composer who has been from everyone acknowledged as the father of string quartet. However Alberto Bologni and Giuseppe Modugno have discovered within the archives of the Civico Museo Bibliografico in Bologna, the copy of a printed edition dating to the early 1800's which are supposedly including other three Sonatas, i.e. XVa. Among these at least the entire Sonata in C major had been performed by the well-known Italian violinist Sandro Materassi together with his friend Luigi Dallapiccola. Remarkable the fact that both of the last concerts he performed in his career opened with the Sonata in C. Let's leave to the musicologists any discussion to this regard, we should just enjoy this delightful music which is enhanced by the extraordinary instruments which have been used for this recording: an original fortepiano Johann Schantz dated from 1815 (which was considered as the "Stradivari" among fortepianos in Vienna during the 19th century and even Franz Joseph Haydn was fond of such precious instrument) and a beautiful violin Santo Serafino dated from 1734. The recording is well performed by two excellent artists as Giuseppe Modugno and Alberto Bologni who give us moments of real good music. |
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ID: CNT2043
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Piano and Cello
64 bit recording
Booklet: Italiano / English
The rediscovery in recent years of the enormous catalogue of Nino Rota's music held by the Cini Foundation in Venice is perhaps finally inverting an inversely proportional trend between the composer's popularity as author of film music and as classical music composer. In fact, if on the one hand the happy, thirty-year-long artistic marriage between Federico Fellini and himself inevitably led to identifying the composer with the sound tracks of many twentieth century masterpieces of the "seventh art" (La Strada, La dolce vita, Amarcord, Prova d'orchestra only to name a few of his films with Fellini, but also: Rocco e i suoi fratelli by Luchino Visconti, The Godfather - which earned him an oscar - by Francis Ford Coppola, as well as many others) on the other hand we are beginning to rediscover an artist who fits perfectly (who better than he?) in the area circumscribed by those parameters which delimit "Italian excellence", a much discussed phenomenon today, if not always intentionally. Refined, gifted with the same ease for composing that Mozart had (at the age of eleven he wrote his first Oratorio), but at the same time aloof and ironic, with a melancholic and paradoxical outlook on mankind, Rota is for both musicologists and impassioned fans - as they gradually uncover some new masterpiece played in concert halls - a constant surprise. This recording presents his Concerto per violoncello with Enrico Bronzi, one of the greatest and most sensitive musicians of the new generation, playing the solo part and leading the excellent Musici di Parma also in the undisputedly neoclassic Concerto per Archi (presented here in the revised version from 1977). In the Trio con clarinetto of 1973, the magic sound of Alessandro Carbonare blends together with that of Bronzi and Miodini (who play together in the Trio di Parma). |
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