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Amore siciliano
CD$20.99$18.89Alpha
May 31, 2024ALPHA1037
Gluck: Iphigenie en Aulide
Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni
Liszt: Annees de pelerinage / Muraro
The great French pianist Roger Muraro joins Alpha Classics for several recording projects. Born in Lyon to Venetian parents, he was a pupil of Yvonne Loriod and is regarded as the leading specialist in the music of Olivier Messiaen, to which he has devoted much of his career. But this noted pedagogue, a former professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, is also renowned for his profound and sensitive approach to the music of Ravel, Chopin, Schumann – and Liszt, of whom he is particularly fond. He now presents a monumental masterwork by Liszt which is in his view a work of ‘universal intimacy’: ‘I admire the freedom with which the evocations of the soul, of nature, of the colors of the masters of Italian painting unfold in succession. Everything Liszt saw during his pilgrimage to Switzerland and Italy contributed to a process of reflection, a journey, a quest to bring him closer to his ideal where silence became the ultimate authority.’
REVIEW:
This realization of Années de pèlerinage can only be described as a careercrowning achievement. Muraro accomplishes it through his unflagging attention to the most minute details of Liszt’s score and, above all, by the disarming sincerity of his readings. Heartily recommended without reservation to all those interested in Liszt, as well as to lovers of fine, richly imaginative piano-playing.
— Gramophone
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, A Tale
Made in USA - Gershwin, Beach & Barber / Claire Huangci
La messagère: XVII-XXIe siècles, un portrait de la viole de gambe / Boulanger
Sarahbanda
Castaldi & Pellegrini: Capricci
Impressions parisiennes
Ronsard et la musique - Cueillez, cueillez votre jeunesse!
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9
Mozart: Concertos pour flute & Concerto pour flute et harpe
Chopin & Szymanowski
Faure: Requiem; Gounod: Messe de Clovis
Fleeting Castles
Avec Elles / Mathilde Calderini
Mythos - Schubert & Loewe / Krimmel, Bushakevitz
Schoenberg & Faure: Pelleas et Melisande
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 23 / Pashchenko, Il Gardellino
Young & Foolish - Mozart & C.P.E. Bach / Melnikov, Frisch, Valetti, Café Zimmermann
Young and foolish is the title Café Zimmermann has chosen for this program, which features music from the 1770s and 1780s by Mozart and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, starting with Mozart’s famous and sparkling Divertimento KV 138. For this fascinating W.A.-C.P.E. face-off, Café Zimmermann has invited an exceptional musician: the fortepianist Alexander Melnikov. They perform the Concerto no.17 in G major KV 453, of which Mozart said in a letter to his father that (like his concertos KV 450 and KV 451) ‘they make you sweat’! Melnikov is joined by harpsichordist Céline Frisch, co-founder of the ensemble, in Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Concerto for fortepiano, harpsichord, and orchestra, the only one of its kind ever composed, a work full of energy and mischief.
REVIEW:
This album hosts works by two of the greatest composers of the Classical Era, C.P.E. Bach and Mozart. The performances, featuring the outstanding solo artistry of pianist Alexander Melnikov and harpsichordist Céline Frisch, supported by the ensemble Café Zimmermann, are captivating, and the recording boasts a clear and intimate soundscape.
— The Classic Review (Tal Agam)
Mahler: Symphony No. 9 on Period Instruments
Braunstein: Abbey Road Concerto
Koskinen: Fuga Indiana
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, KV 364; Horn Concerto No. 2; 2 Rondos
Amore siciliano
Love, drama and betrayal under the Sicilian sun: this ‘pasticcio’ of folk melodies and music by ‘learned’ composers was born of the love of Leonardo García Alarcón and the singers and musicians of the Cappella Mediterranea for Calabrian, Sicilian and Neapolitan songs dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. We hear music by Alessandro Scarlatti and Sigismondo d’India, both born in Palermo, as well as works from the extraordinarily rich collection of St John’s
Co-Cathedral in Malta (notably by Vincenzo Tozzi). Leonardo García Alarcón even composed a five-part fugue on La canzone di Cecilia, associated with the heroine of the drama. The music was arranged by Quito Gato. This tribute to southern Italy by Cappella Mediterranea has triumphed on stage for years; now this recording immortalises it.
