Italian Flute Concertos / James Galway

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Label
RCA
Release Date
July 12, 2010
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      PERGOLESI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA
    • PERFORMER
      James, Claudio, I Solisti Veneti, Galway, Scimone
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 12, 2010
    • UPC
      090266116423
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      RCA61164
    • LABEL
      RCA
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Concertos
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Spiritoso

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

      Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti

      Performer: James Galway

      Conductor: Claudio Scimone

    2. II. Adagio

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

      Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti

      Performer: James Galway

      Conductor: Claudio Scimone

    3. III. Allegro spiritoso

      Composer: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

      Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti

      Performer: James Galway

      Conductor: Claudio Scimone

    4. I. Allegro

      Composer: Baldassare Galuppi

      Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti

      Performer: James Galway

      Conductor: Claudio Scimone

    5. II. Adagio

      Composer: Baldassare Galuppi

      Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti

      Performer: James Galway

      Conductor: Claudio Scimone

    6. III. Allegro assai

      Composer: Baldassare Galuppi

      Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti

      Performer: James Galway

      Conductor: Claudio Scimone

    7. I. Allegro ma non troppo

      Composer: Antonio Piacentino Romano

      Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti

      Performer: James Galway

      Conductor: Claudio Scimone

    8. II. Andante

      Composer: Antonio Piacentino Romano

      Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti

      Performer: James Galway

      Conductor: Claudio Scimone

    9. III. Allegro

      Composer: Antonio Piacentino Romano

      Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti

      Performer: James Galway

      Conductor: Claudio Scimone

    10. Concerto lugubre

      Composer: Louis Gianella

      Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti

      Performer: James Galway

      Conductor: Claudio Scimone

    11. I. Allegro non molto

      Composer: Giuseppe Tartini

      Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti

      Performer: James Galway

      Conductor: Claudio Scimone

    12. II. Andante

      Composer: Giuseppe Tartini

      Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti

      Performer: James Galway

      Conductor: Claudio Scimone

    13. III. Allegro

      Composer: Giuseppe Tartini

      Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti

      Performer: James Galway

      Conductor: Claudio Scimone


"The Italians embraced the transverse flute rather more cautiously than others, but when they did it was with characteristic enthusiasm; there are plenty more concertos where these six came from. The attribution of the Pergolesi is unqualified in the statement of contents; the annotator states that it was ''attributed to'' him, but Grove lists it as ''extremely doubtful''; it also describes the Tartini work as ''dubious'', but no hint of this is offered in the inlay-booklet. Regarding Romano Antonio Piacentino and his concerto, even that august dictionary is entirely unhelpful. The concerto proves that he existed and its style places him somewhere in the eighteenth century, but that is all. His ability to create something agreeable out of thematic commonplaces recalls Vivaldi. With Tartini and Piacentino we are in the world of the straightforward baroque instrumental concerto, while 'Pergolesi' and Galuppi show traces of operatic connections. Little is known of Louis Gianella (?1778-1817), a flautist who worked at La Scala in Milan, whose curious and otherwise unrecorded Concerto lugubre patently links his two compositional fields—those of the theatre (opera and ballet) and with-flute instrumental music, which includes two other flute concertos...Galway plays with his accustomed silver-tongued panache and has the benefit of the co-operation of both I Solisti Veneti and the recording engineers at their best."

John Duarte, Gramophone [4/1994]