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Italian Flute Concertos / James Galway

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Details

Composer
PERGOLESI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA
Artist
James, Claudio, I Solisti Veneti, Galway, Scimone
Format
CD
Label
RCA
Released
Jul 12, 2010
Catalog #
RCA61164
UPC
090266116423

About

"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]

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 I. Spiritoso 04:20
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Spiritoso
    Duration
    04:20
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
    Performer
    James Galway
    Ensemble
    I Solisti Veneti
    Conductor
    Claudio Scimone
  2. 2 II. Adagio 04:24
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    04:24
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
    Performer
    James Galway
    Ensemble
    I Solisti Veneti
    Conductor
    Claudio Scimone
  3. 3 III. Allegro spiritoso 03:11
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Allegro spiritoso
    Duration
    03:11
    Composer
    Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
    Performer
    James Galway
    Ensemble
    I Solisti Veneti
    Conductor
    Claudio Scimone
  4. 4 I. Allegro 03:26
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    03:26
    Composer
    Baldassare Galuppi
    Performer
    James Galway
    Ensemble
    I Solisti Veneti
    Conductor
    Claudio Scimone
  5. 5 II. Adagio 04:57
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    04:57
    Composer
    Baldassare Galuppi
    Performer
    James Galway
    Ensemble
    I Solisti Veneti
    Conductor
    Claudio Scimone
  6. 6 III. Allegro assai 02:57
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Allegro assai
    Duration
    02:57
    Composer
    Baldassare Galuppi
    Performer
    James Galway
    Ensemble
    I Solisti Veneti
    Conductor
    Claudio Scimone
  7. 7 I. Allegro ma non troppo 05:07
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Allegro ma non troppo
    Duration
    05:07
    Composer
    Antonio Piacentino Romano
    Performer
    James Galway
    Ensemble
    I Solisti Veneti
    Conductor
    Claudio Scimone
  8. 8 II. Andante 03:52
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    03:52
    Composer
    Antonio Piacentino Romano
    Performer
    James Galway
    Ensemble
    I Solisti Veneti
    Conductor
    Claudio Scimone
  9. 9 III. Allegro 05:25
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    05:25
    Composer
    Antonio Piacentino Romano
    Performer
    James Galway
    Ensemble
    I Solisti Veneti
    Conductor
    Claudio Scimone
  10. 10 Concerto lugubre 17:47
    Track
    10
    Title
    Concerto lugubre
    Duration
    17:47
    Composer
    Louis Gianella
    Performer
    James Galway
    Ensemble
    I Solisti Veneti
    Conductor
    Claudio Scimone
  11. 11 I. Allegro non molto 03:07
    Track
    11
    Title
    I. Allegro non molto
    Duration
    03:07
    Composer
    Giuseppe Tartini
    Performer
    James Galway
    Ensemble
    I Solisti Veneti
    Conductor
    Claudio Scimone
  12. 12 II. Andante 04:06
    Track
    12
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    04:06
    Composer
    Giuseppe Tartini
    Performer
    James Galway
    Ensemble
    I Solisti Veneti
    Conductor
    Claudio Scimone
  13. 13 III. Allegro 02:19
    Track
    13
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    02:19
    Composer
    Giuseppe Tartini
    Performer
    James Galway
    Ensemble
    I Solisti Veneti
    Conductor
    Claudio Scimone