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Italian soprano of the 18th century
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2024-02-26 00:00:00
...Così sperso tra i vimini e le stuoiegrondanti, giunco tu che le radicicon sé trascina, viscide, non maisvelte, tremi di vita e ti protendia un vuoto risonante di lamentisoffocati, la tesa ti ringhiottedell’onda antica che ti volge; e ancoratutto che ti riprende, Strada porticomura specchi ti figge in una solaghiacciata moltitudine di morti,e se un gesto ti sfiora, una parolati cade accanto, quello è forse, Arsenio,nell’ora che si scioglie, il cenno d’unavita strozzata per te sorta, e il ventola porta con la cenere degli astri. Eugenio Montaleflac, cue, logs and scansCD 1 Symphony no. 1Concertgebouworkest AmsterdamRecorded in 1987CD 2 & 3 Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"Barbara Hendricks sopranoChrista Ludwig contraltoThe Westminster ChoirNew York PhilharmonicRecorded in 1987CD 4 & 5 Symphony No. 3Christa Ludwig contraltoNew York Choral ArtistsBrooklyn Boys ChorusNew York PhilharmonicRecorded […]
2021-09-17 06:00:47
Nino Rota’s First Symphony: Sweeping Cinematic Grandeur
Nino Rota is remembered as one of the great film composers of the twentieth century. Born in Milan, Rota lived in Rome for most of his life. From 1933 until his death in 1979, he wrote scores for more than 150 films, including Federico Fellini’s La Strada (1954), Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet (1968), and Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972). Fellini, who worked with Rota for decades said, The most precious collaborator I have ever had, I say it straightaway ...
2021-07-17 11:00:01
An all-star recording or Rota’s chamber music is a revelation; cellist Maya Beiser gets to the heart of Glass; and a bold take on The Rite of Spring • The composer, pianist and conductor Nino Rota (1911-79) is best remembered for countless brilliant cinema scores, notably for The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, but also for classics by his fellow Italians, the directors Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Franco Zeffirelli: La Strada, Amarcord, La Dolce Vita and Juliet of the Spirits among them. Throughout his life, and despite composing on average 10 film scores a year, Rota also wrote concert music and opera. Nino Rota’s Chamber Music (Alpha Classics), performed by star players of the Berlin Philharmonic and friends – including Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Daishin Kashimoto (violin) and Paul Meyer (clarinet) – showcases Rota’s distinctive creative voice, its variety, point and spirit. The five-movement Nonetto glitters and gleams with […]
2021-07-07 09:12:41
More than just a film composer: Nino Rota's viola sonatas at Sands Films Music Room
Like many 20th-century film composers, Nino Rota has suffered the curse of having his non-film music (of which there is a significant quantity) disappear behind his film scores. Yes, he wrote music for The Godfather, La Strada and 148 other film scores, but there are also 11 operas, three symphonies, concertos and much much more. And two viola sonatas, one dating from the 1930s and the other from 1945, and there is a chance to hear these later this month, when Lorena Canto (viola) and Yvain Calvo (piano) perform them at Sands Films Music Room on 15 July 2021. Rota was a child prodigy and composed his first opera when he was eleven. Encouraged by Arturo Toscanini he studied at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia in the 1930s before returning to Milan where he graduated from the University in 1937. This is the period of the first viola sonata. Then during […]
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