Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

By the time of his sudden death in Brazil while conducting his most successful opera, the 1934-premiered Cecilia by Don Licinio Refice (1883-1954) had seen more than one thousand performances. With the death of the composer, the work’s “sacred theme” marginalized the work in an increasingly secular Italy. Rather than utilizing vocal “slotting”, he adopted a recurring thematic style and “infinite melody” set into the symphonic tissue, teetering between post-Wagner and Debussy. This 2013 live performance presents the public with this refined yet dramatic work’s First Complete Recording.

On this chamber music album the Italian composer David Fontanesi copes with three musical forms representative of the Western classical tradition of the last three centuries: the Sonata, the Suite, the Divertimento. The flute is the absolute protagonist of all these pieces, being in dialogue either with a piano, or with a classical trio of strings (violin, viola, cello), or with a second flute. This album may be defined as exhibiting an inheritance not of the 'Neue Musik' of the 20th c. but rather the epoch of composers like Milhaud, Francais, Shostakovich and many more like them.

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music