Composer: Baldassare Galuppi, Franz Joseph Haydn, Francesco Lecce, Giovanni Paisiello, Antonio Vivaldi
Performer: Raffaele La Ragione
Orchestra: Il Pomo d’Oro
Conductor: Francesco Corti
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Arcana
Catalogue: A524
Release: 2022
Size: 1.24 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Paisiello: La serva padrona: Sinfonia
02. Haydn: Sinfonia in D Major Hob.I:106: Allegro
Vivaldi: Concerto in C major for mandolin / lute, RV425
03. I. Allegro
04. II. Largo
05. III. Allegro
Galuppi: Il mondo alla roversa: Sinfonia
06. I. Allegro
07. II. Andante
08. III. Tempo di Minuetto
Paisiello: Concerto for Mandolin and Strings in E flat major
09. I. Allegro Maestoso
10. II. Larghetto Grazioso
11. III. Allegretto
Lecce: Concerto in G major
12. I. Allegro
13. II. Largo
14. III. Allegro balletto
15. I. Allegro moderato e grazioso
16. II. Andante con variazioni
17. III. Rondo
Two years after the great acclaim aroused by “Beethoven and his Contemporaries”, his first recording for Arcana, Raffaele La Ragione returns with an album containing the four best-known mandolin concertos, which appear in a new light here thanks to the use of three different period mandolins. For this ambitious project he is joined by the brilliant orchestra Il pomo d’oro, universally renowned for its lively, dynamic interpretations of instrumental and vocal music from the Baroque and Classical periods (with Joyce DiDonato, Franco Fagioli, Jakub Józef Orliński) and directed here by its principal guest conductor Francesco Corti, a harpsichordist of international repute.
From Vivaldi’s famous mandolin concertos, by way of the typically Neapolitan examples by Paisiello and Lecce, to the two more Classical concertos of Hummel (these last in their world premiere recording on historical instruments), four concertos and three precious instruments restore this repertory to its rightful place and relate almost a century of mandolin history.