Brilliant Classics
Antonioni, Cardi, Serino: Music For Viola And Strings
$13.99
Details
- Composer
- ANTONIONI CARDI SERINO
- Artist
- Ashkenazy, Saggini, Meinich, Sanzo, I Solisti Aquilani, Ashkenazy
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Brilliant Classics
- Released
- Mar 06, 2020
- Catalog #
- BRI96053
- UPC
- 5028421960531
About
Any new album by Vladimir Ashkenazy is cause for celebration and attracts worldwide attention. First as a pianist and latterly as a conductor in a performing career of over six decades, Ashkenazy was recognized early on as having all the virtues of a great performer: musicianship, intellectual perception, technical perfection and musical instincts that never failed to make his fingers say something. He has an individual but expressive conducting technique, but he made the transition to the podium with complete success during the late 70s and early 80s, and his orchestral recordings are now as numerous as his piano albums, and the best of them as masterly. Although the repertoire for which he is best known focuses on Beethoven and the Romantic era, Ashkenazy has often performed music of our own time, especially by young composers. This project brings together Mauro Cardi (b.1955), Francesco Antonioni (b.1971) and Cristiano Serino (b.1971) with concertante works for viola and ensemble, which explore between them the centrality of the viola within a string section, and within the pitch range of an orchestra, and how the viola can both journey from that centre and rediscover it's natural home there. Serini's Per Tutta la Durata di un Arco is based on the duration and extension of a bow-stroke; in Northern Lights, after the Thaw, Antonioni paints a soundscape of light and ice and flowing water in which a clarinet duets with the viola; it is the viola's antique cousin, the viola d'amore, that takes the starring role in Cardi's La Follia, based on the chord progression which inspired countless 17th- and 18th-century composers such as Corelli, Tartini and Vivaldi.
Tracklist 9 tracks
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1 Per tutta la durata di un arco 23:21
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Per tutta la durata di un arco
- Duration
- 23:21
- Composer
- Cristiano Serino
- Performer
- Gianluca Saggini
- Ensemble
- I Solisti Aquilani
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2 I. Monologues and Dialogues: Andante tranquillo 07:14
- Track
- 2
- Title
- I. Monologues and Dialogues: Andante tranquillo
- Duration
- 07:14
- Composer
- Francesco Antonioni
- Performer
- Ada Meinich, Dimitri Ashkenazy
- Ensemble
- I Solisti Aquilani
- Conductor
- Vladimir Ashkenazy
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3 II. It Was Thaw and Little by Little Gold: Allegro molto 05:38
- Track
- 3
- Title
- II. It Was Thaw and Little by Little Gold: Allegro molto
- Duration
- 05:38
- Composer
- Francesco Antonioni
- Performer
- Ada Meinich, Dimitri Ashkenazy
- Ensemble
- I Solisti Aquilani
- Conductor
- Vladimir Ashkenazy
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4 III. Liebeslied: Andante 09:27
- Track
- 4
- Title
- III. Liebeslied: Andante
- Duration
- 09:27
- Composer
- Francesco Antonioni
- Performer
- Ada Meinich, Dimitri Ashkenazy
- Ensemble
- I Solisti Aquilani
- Conductor
- Vladimir Ashkenazy
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5 IV. My River: Presto 05:00
- Track
- 5
- Title
- IV. My River: Presto
- Duration
- 05:00
- Composer
- Francesco Antonioni
- Performer
- Ada Meinich, Dimitri Ashkenazy
- Ensemble
- I Solisti Aquilani
- Conductor
- Vladimir Ashkenazy
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6 I. Largo 07:05
- Track
- 6
- Title
- I. Largo
- Duration
- 07:05
- Composer
- Mauro Cardi
- Performer
- Luca Sanzò
- Ensemble
- I Solisti Aquilani
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7 II. Cadenza a 2 05:12
- Track
- 7
- Title
- II. Cadenza a 2
- Duration
- 05:12
- Composer
- Mauro Cardi
- Performer
- Luca Sanzò
- Ensemble
- I Solisti Aquilani
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8 III. Allegro 04:33
- Track
- 8
- Title
- III. Allegro
- Duration
- 04:33
- Composer
- Mauro Cardi
- Performer
- Luca Sanzò
- Ensemble
- I Solisti Aquilani
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9 IV. Adagio calmo 00:47
- Track
- 9
- Title
- IV. Adagio calmo
- Duration
- 00:47
- Composer
- Mauro Cardi
- Performer
- Luca Sanzò
- Ensemble
- I Solisti Aquilani