Composer: Giovanni Sgambati
Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della RAI
Conductor: Francesco La Vecchia
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8572686
Release: 2022
Size: 1.24 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Symphony No. 2 in E-Flat Major (Reconstr. R. Trübger)
01. I. Andante sostenuto – Agitato
02. II. Allegro vivace assai
03. III. Andante con moto
04. IV. Allegro
Nuptial Symphony
Part 1, In Church
05. I. Prelude and Canticle
Part 2, In the Garden
06. I. Popular Festivities and Nocturne
07. II. Reprise and Children’s Dance
Part 3, At Court
08. I. Minuet
09. II. Procession
Giovanni Sgambati, a composer admired by Wagner, was the man Busoni predicted would take Italian music ‘towards a bright new future’. Sgambati’s Symphony No. 2 is a compendium of Austro-Germanic devices whose mix of chromaticism and melodic invention is invigorating. Lost for decades, it was reconstructed by Rosalind Trübger whose performing edition is recorded here. Sinfonia epitalamio was commissioned to celebrate a royal wedding. Loosely programmatic, this beautiful work embraces the pastoral and celebratory framed in the form of a symphonic poem.