Casella: Divertimento for Fulvia / Iorio, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana

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This programme of four colourful, contrasting but complementary works for small orchestra celebrates the lighter side of four twentieth-century Italian composers, centring on Alfredo Casella’s Divertimento for Fulvia, composed for his young daughter. Casella’s friend Gian Francesco Malipiero wrote Oriente immaginario (Imaginary Orient) for a Futurist play by Achille Ricciardi (1884-1923). Franco Donatoni once called his simply-titled Musica (Music) ‘kind of Schoenberg gone a bit neoclassical’ – but also with a great sense of humour – while Giorgio Federico Ghedini’s Concerto grosso is a twentieth-century tribute to both Bach and Beethoven.



Product Description:


  • Catalog Number: 8573748


  • UPC: 747313374878


  • Label: Naxos


  • Composer: Alfredo Casella, Franco Donatoni, Gian-Francesco Malipiero, Giorgio Federico Ghedini


  • Conductor: Damian Iorio


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana