Composer: Alfredo Casella, Luigi Dallapiccola, Umberto Giordano, Pietro Mascagni, Goffredo Petrassi, Amilcare Ponchielli, Giacomo Puccini, Ottorino Respighi, Giuseppe Verdi, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Performer: Coro Torino Teatro Regio
Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino
Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Chandos
Catalogue: CHAN241-47
Release: 2014
Size: 2.6 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
Casella: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 12
01. II. Allegro molto vivace
Casella: La donna serpente Suite No. 2, Op. 50
02. I. Sinfonia: Allegro vivacissimo
03. II. Preludio: Lento, ma non troppo
Casella: Concerto for Orchestra, Op. 61
04. I. Sinfonia
Dallapiccola: Tartiniana, divertimento for violin & orchestra
05. I. Larghetto, molto espressivo, ma semplice
06. II. Allegro misurato
Dallapiccola: Frammenti Sinfonici dal Balletto ‘Marsia’
07. Sostenuto, ma deciso (Recitando) – Danza di Apollo
08. Ultima Danza di Marsia
Dallapiccola: Partita
09. III. Recitativo e fanfara
Dallapiccola: Three questions with two answers
10. IV. Largamente
Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque, PP120
11. Nocturne
12. Galop
13. Respighi: Burlesca per Orchestra
Respighi: Rachmaninov 5 etudes-tableaux (orch. Respighi) P. 160
14. No. 3. Funeral March (after Rachmaninov’s Op. 39, No. 7)
15. No. 4. Red Riding Hood and the Wolf (after Rachmaninov’s Op. 39, No. 6)
CD 02
Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani
01. Sinfonia
Verdi: Quattro Pezzi Sacri
02. No. 4. Te Deum
Petrassi: Magnificat
03. Et misericordia ejus – Gloria Patri, et Filio
Petrassi: Psalm IX
04. Part II: exultabo in salutari tuo – Constitue, Domine, legislatorem super eos
Petrassi: Partita for orchestra
05. I. Gagliarda
Wolf-Ferrari: La dama boba
06. Overture
Puccini: Suor Angelica
07. Intermezzo
Giordano: Siberia
08. Act II: Prelude
Ponchielli: La Gioconda
09. Act III: Dance of the Hours
Mascagni: L’Amico Fritz
10. Intermezzo
This special ‘2for1’ compilation release celebrates ten years of Gianandrea Noseda’s Musica Italiana series. During this time Noseda has shown a remarkable commitment to championing long forgotten scores by well-known composers as well as the finest works by altogether neglected ones.
On Disc 1 he revives several works long absent from the concert hall. His recordings of the Symphony No. 2, Symphonic Fragments and Concerto for Orchestra excerpted here have brought Casella’s music to a new and passionate audience. Luigi Dallapiccola, a composer very close to Noseda’s heart, is known for his lyrical Italianate take on Schoenberg’s twelve-tone system; three contrasting works are represented here. The Respighi recordings heard here look beyond the tone poems for which he is best known, shining a light on some equally ravishing scores. Disc 2 presents a collection of orchestral movements from the richly romantic Italian operatic repertoire of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Alongside works by the towering masters Verdi and Puccini are less familiar ones by Wolf-Ferrari, Giordano, Ponchielli, and Mascagni. Completing this celebration of Italian music are substantial excerpts from choral works by Goffredo Petrassi, taken from a recording that was widely praised, earning a BBC Music Magazine Award nomination.