Bazzini: Complete Opera Transcriptions / Caraman, Trebeschi

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
December 7, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BAZZINI, ANTONIO
    • PERFORMER
      Caraman, Trebeschi
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      December 07, 2018
    • UPC
      5028421956749
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI95674
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      5
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Casta Diva

      Composer: Antonio Bazzini

      Performer: Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi

    2. No. 6. Air

      Composer: Antonio Bazzini

      Performer: Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi

    3. Adagio, Variazione e Finale sopra un tema di Bellini

      Composer: Antonio Bazzini

      Performer: Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi

    4. Souvenir de Beatrice di Tenda, Op. 11

      Composer: Antonio Bazzini

      Performer: Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi

    5. Fantasia, Op. 40

      Composer: Antonio Bazzini

      Performer: Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi

    6. Variations brillantes et Finale sur un theme de la Sonnambula, Op. 3

      Composer: Antonio Bazzini

      Performer: Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi

    7. Souvenir de La Sonnambula, Op. 19

      Composer: Antonio Bazzini

      Performer: Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi

    8. Fantaisie sur La Sonnanbula No. 2, Op. 26

      Composer: Antonio Bazzini

      Performer: Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi

    9. Il Pirata, Op. 27

      Composer: Antonio Bazzini

      Performer: Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi

    10. Fantaisie dramatique sur l'air final de Lucia di Lammermoor, Op. 10

      Composer: Antonio Bazzini

      Performer: Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi

    11. No. 2. Variations brillantes sur plusieurs motifs

      Composer: Antonio Bazzini

      Performer: Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi

    12. No. 3. Scène et romance

      Composer: Antonio Bazzini

      Performer: Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi

    13. No. 4. Fantaisie sur la romance et un choeur

      Composer: Antonio Bazzini

      Performer: Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi

    14. Fantaisie sur des motifs d'Anna Bolena, Op. 24

      Composer: Antonio Bazzini

      Performer: Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi

    15. Fantaisie, sur plusieurs themes de l'opera Esmerelda, Op. 8

      Composer: Antonio Bazzini

      Performer: Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi

    16. Fantasia su motivi della Traviata, Op. 50

      Composer: Antonio Bazzini

      Performer: Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi

    17. Souvenir d'Attila

      Composer: Antonio Bazzini

      Performer: Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi

    18. Fantasia su temi tratti da I Masnadieri

      Composer: Antonio Bazzini

      Performer: Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi

    19. 6 Transcriptions et Paraphrases, Op. 17: No. 5. Act 2: Finale of Oberon

      Composer: Antonio Bazzini

      Performer: Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi

    20. No. 1. —

      Composer: Antonio Bazzini

      Performer: Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi

    21. No. 2. —

      Composer: Antonio Bazzini

      Performer: Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi

    22. No. 3. —

      Composer: Antonio Bazzini

      Performer: Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi


In the generation after Paganini, Antonio Bazzini (1818-1897) sustained a peerless reputation for flying fingerwork and astonishing feats of legerdemain on the violin. As both a virtuoso violinist and composer, he was a product of his time and place, working in a musical culture dominated by opera. His ‘Dance of the Goblins’ has long been a mainstay of the recital repertoire for violinists seeking to send their audiences on their way with gasps of astonishment, but his transcriptions are much more developed and extensive pieces. They rework not only some of the defining passages of 19th-century Italian opera, but many themes and arias that are now less familiar. Bazzini found in the operas of Bellini a particularly fruitful source of inspiration, writing no fewer than three separate fantasias on themes from La sonnambula through the course of his career, as well as pieces based on Norma, I puritani, La straniera, Beatrice di Tenda, Il pirata and (when he was just 16 years old) I Capuleti e i Montecchi: an astonishingly vivid and precocious piece of work, handled here with sovereign mastery by the young Romanian violinist Anca Vasile Caraman. Accompanied here by the Mantovan-born pianist Alessandro Trebeschi, Caraman is equally impressive in Bazzini’s extended, improvisatory reworkings of climactic moments in Lucia di Lammermoor and Anna Bolena by Donizetti. Having taken a cold attitude towards the young Verdi, Bazzini was later won over by the genius of La traviata, which resulted in a truly concerto-like fantasia as well as no less technically demanding fantasias on Attila and I masnadieri. In these works, as in the three fantasies on themes from Pacini’s Saffo, Bazzini emulates Franz Liszt in venturing far beyond literal fidelity to the notes, towards an expressive fidelity to the original dramas.