Wolf-Ferrari: 3 Violin Sonatas / Davide Alogna, Costantino Catena
Details
- Composer
- WOLF-FERRARI, ERMANNO
- Artist
- Alogna, Catena
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Brilliant Classics
- Released
- Jan 01, 2021
- Catalog #
- BRI96093
- UPC
- 5028421960937
About
With well-received albums of his piano trios, piano music and music for chamber orchestra, Brilliant Classics has expanded the horizons of many listeners to Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948). Previously known principally for his operatic and dramatic works such as I Gioelli della Madonna, Wolf-Ferrari built up a body of instrumental music that was played across Europe during his lifetime. Association with Mussolini’s Fascist regime cast a shadow over his postwar reputation and only in recent years have listeners been able to rediscover the music of an inveterate Romantic. The First Violin Sonata was written while the 19-year-old Wolf-Ferrari was still studying with Joseph Rheinberger in Munich. However, its long-breathed melodies and grasp of large-scale form bely its composer’s relative inexperience. All the same, the Brahmsian contours of the First Sonata are succeeded in the Second by a more personal idiom, one that more successfully integrates Wolf-Ferrari’s lifelong allegiances to both German and Italian schools of composition. Dating from 1901, it sings with a stern, almost austere passion rather in the manner of the composer’s Belgian contemporary Cesar Franck; the second of the sonata’s two movements has an especially sacred character and ends in a mood of serenity. The Third Sonata is a very late work, dating from 1943, while Wolf-Ferrari was giving concert tours through Axis countries. In parallel with the evolution of the trio of sonatas by Brahms, this E major work has a neoclassical character maintained throughout the suppressed passion of its four compact movements: there is even an excursion into strict counterpoint in the first movement’s development section, and the finale returns to the work’s opening theme, now touched by both irony and tenderness.
Tracklist 9 tracks
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1 I. Sostenuto - Allegro appassionato quasi presto 11:28
- Track
- 1
- Title
- I. Sostenuto - Allegro appassionato quasi presto
- Duration
- 11:28
- Composer
- Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
- Performer
- Davide Alogna, Constantino Catena
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2 II. Lento senza tempo - A tempo di Adagio 06:22
- Track
- 2
- Title
- II. Lento senza tempo - A tempo di Adagio
- Duration
- 06:22
- Composer
- Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
- Performer
- Davide Alogna, Constantino Catena
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3 III. Sostenuto - Allegro ma non troppo e con spirito 08:54
- Track
- 3
- Title
- III. Sostenuto - Allegro ma non troppo e con spirito
- Duration
- 08:54
- Composer
- Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
- Performer
- Davide Alogna, Constantino Catena
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4 I. Appassionato 10:00
- Track
- 4
- Title
- I. Appassionato
- Duration
- 10:00
- Composer
- Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
- Performer
- Davide Alogna, Constantino Catena
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5 II. Recitativo: Adagio - Sostenuto con amore, semplicemente 09:50
- Track
- 5
- Title
- II. Recitativo: Adagio - Sostenuto con amore, semplicemente
- Duration
- 09:50
- Composer
- Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
- Performer
- Davide Alogna, Constantino Catena
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6 I. Allegro moderato 06:34
- Track
- 6
- Title
- I. Allegro moderato
- Duration
- 06:34
- Composer
- Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
- Performer
- Davide Alogna, Constantino Catena
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7 II. Andantino con innocenza 04:08
- Track
- 7
- Title
- II. Andantino con innocenza
- Duration
- 04:08
- Composer
- Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
- Performer
- Davide Alogna, Constantino Catena
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8 III. Agitato con passione 07:37
- Track
- 8
- Title
- III. Agitato con passione
- Duration
- 07:37
- Composer
- Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
- Performer
- Davide Alogna, Constantino Catena
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9 IV. Allegro molto con fuoco più allegro del primo tempo 08:21
- Track
- 9
- Title
- IV. Allegro molto con fuoco più allegro del primo tempo
- Duration
- 08:21
- Composer
- Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
- Performer
- Davide Alogna, Constantino Catena