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Bazzini: Complete Opera Transcriptions / Caraman, Trebeschi

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Composer
BAZZINI, ANTONIO
Artist
Caraman, Trebeschi
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Dec 07, 2018
Catalog #
BRI95674
UPC
5028421956749

About

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.

Tracklist 22 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Casta Diva 07:59
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Casta Diva
    Duration
    07:59
    Composer
    Antonio Bazzini
    Performer
    Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi
  2. 2 No. 6. Air 10:23
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 6. Air
    Duration
    10:23
    Composer
    Antonio Bazzini
    Performer
    Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi
  3. 3 Adagio, Variazione e Finale sopra un tema di Bellini 16:30
    Track
    3
    Title
    Adagio, Variazione e Finale sopra un tema di Bellini
    Duration
    16:30
    Composer
    Antonio Bazzini
    Performer
    Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi
  4. 4 Souvenir de Beatrice di Tenda, Op. 11 16:11
    Track
    4
    Title
    Souvenir de Beatrice di Tenda, Op. 11
    Duration
    16:11
    Composer
    Antonio Bazzini
    Performer
    Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi
  5. 5 Fantasia, Op. 40 14:02
    Track
    5
    Title
    Fantasia, Op. 40
    Duration
    14:02
    Composer
    Antonio Bazzini
    Performer
    Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi
  6. 6 Variations brillantes et Finale sur un theme de la Sonnambula, Op. 3 15:37
    Track
    6
    Title
    Variations brillantes et Finale sur un theme de la Sonnambula, Op. 3
    Duration
    15:37
    Composer
    Antonio Bazzini
    Performer
    Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi
  7. 7 Souvenir de La Sonnambula, Op. 19 18:14
    Track
    7
    Title
    Souvenir de La Sonnambula, Op. 19
    Duration
    18:14
    Composer
    Antonio Bazzini
    Performer
    Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi
  8. 8 Fantaisie sur La Sonnanbula No. 2, Op. 26 16:13
    Track
    8
    Title
    Fantaisie sur La Sonnanbula No. 2, Op. 26
    Duration
    16:13
    Composer
    Antonio Bazzini
    Performer
    Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi
  9. 9 Il Pirata, Op. 27 15:08
    Track
    9
    Title
    Il Pirata, Op. 27
    Duration
    15:08
    Composer
    Antonio Bazzini
    Performer
    Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi
  10. 10 Fantaisie dramatique sur l'air final de Lucia di Lammermoor, Op. 10 13:46
    Track
    10
    Title
    Fantaisie dramatique sur l'air final de Lucia di Lammermoor, Op. 10
    Duration
    13:46
    Composer
    Antonio Bazzini
    Performer
    Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi
  11. 11 No. 2. Variations brillantes sur plusieurs motifs 09:44
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 2. Variations brillantes sur plusieurs motifs
    Duration
    09:44
    Composer
    Antonio Bazzini
    Performer
    Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi
  12. 12 No. 3. Scène et romance 11:05
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 3. Scène et romance
    Duration
    11:05
    Composer
    Antonio Bazzini
    Performer
    Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi
  13. 13 No. 4. Fantaisie sur la romance et un choeur 09:02
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 4. Fantaisie sur la romance et un choeur
    Duration
    09:02
    Composer
    Antonio Bazzini
    Performer
    Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi
  14. 14 Fantaisie sur des motifs d'Anna Bolena, Op. 24 15:00
    Track
    14
    Title
    Fantaisie sur des motifs d'Anna Bolena, Op. 24
    Duration
    15:00
    Composer
    Antonio Bazzini
    Performer
    Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi
  15. 15 Fantaisie, sur plusieurs themes de l'opera Esmerelda, Op. 8 15:01
    Track
    15
    Title
    Fantaisie, sur plusieurs themes de l'opera Esmerelda, Op. 8
    Duration
    15:01
    Composer
    Antonio Bazzini
    Performer
    Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi
  16. 16 Fantasia su motivi della Traviata, Op. 50 15:55
    Track
    16
    Title
    Fantasia su motivi della Traviata, Op. 50
    Duration
    15:55
    Composer
    Antonio Bazzini
    Performer
    Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi
  17. 17 Souvenir d'Attila 16:15
    Track
    17
    Title
    Souvenir d'Attila
    Duration
    16:15
    Composer
    Antonio Bazzini
    Performer
    Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi
  18. 18 Fantasia su temi tratti da I Masnadieri 14:16
    Track
    18
    Title
    Fantasia su temi tratti da I Masnadieri
    Duration
    14:16
    Composer
    Antonio Bazzini
    Performer
    Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi
  19. 19 6 Transcriptions et Paraphrases, Op. 17: No. 5. Act 2: Finale of Oberon 07:20
    Track
    19
    Title
    6 Transcriptions et Paraphrases, Op. 17: No. 5. Act 2: Finale of Oberon
    Duration
    07:20
    Composer
    Antonio Bazzini
    Performer
    Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi
  20. 20 No. 1. — 11:34
    Track
    20
    Title
    No. 1. —
    Duration
    11:34
    Composer
    Antonio Bazzini
    Performer
    Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi
  21. 21 No. 2. — 14:59
    Track
    21
    Title
    No. 2. —
    Duration
    14:59
    Composer
    Antonio Bazzini
    Performer
    Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi
  22. 22 No. 3. — 19:43
    Track
    22
    Title
    No. 3. —
    Duration
    19:43
    Composer
    Antonio Bazzini
    Performer
    Anca Vasile Caraman, Alessandro Trebeschi