ADRIANO

Born in 1944, conductor-composer Adriano lives in Zürich. As a musician he is mostly self-taught. In the late 1970s he established himself as a specialist on Ottorino Respighi and he has conducted many CDs of obscure or neglected symphonic repertoire. He has also initiated and recorded a series of fifteen CDs mainly of European film-music composers, and has created and directed a series of classical music videos. All of Adriano’s over forty recording projects have found wide recognition and his commitment is known to be strong and uncompromising. In his opinion music history should be revised to show that it is not just the story of the so-called great composers, and that it should not be neatly classified into traditions and categories. Much more good music has been written than certain musicologists and critics would care to admit.

Adriano has composed songs, orchestral, chamber and incidental pieces. His most recent works are a Concertino for celesta and strings, a Concertino for piano, strings and percussion, an Obscure Saraband for organ, tubular bells, timpani and strings, Cryptic Sketches for brass quintet and Thoughts and Associations for clarinet and string quartet, of which the first five have been recorded. His instrumental adaptations include songs by Modest Mussorgsky (four cycles), Ottorino Respighi (four cycles), Johannes Brahms, Hugo Wolf, Othmar Schoeck, Jacques Ibert and Johann Strauss II. He has also adapted Debussy’s L’après-midi d’un faune and Ravel’s Tzigane for chamber group, and large selections of Grieg’s Peer Gynt for wind quintet. Adriano works for various record companies. For Marco Polo and Naxos he has recorded a total of thirty CDs.

For more information, please visit www.adrianoweb.cjb.net.

Albums featuring this artist are available for download from ClassicsOnline.com
Around The World In 80 Minutes	8.223003
AURIC: Belle et la Bete (La) (Beauty and the Beast)	8.557707
AURIC: La Belle et la Bete (Beauty and the Beast)	8.223765
AURIC: Lola Montez / Notre-Dame de Paris / Farandole	8.225070
AURIC: Orphee / Ruy Blas / Thomas I'imposteur	8.225066
AURIC: Symphonie Pastorale (La) / Macao, L'Enfer du jeu	8.225136
BLISS, A.: Christopher Columbus Suite / Seven Waves Away / Men of 2 Worlds (Slovak Radio Symphony, Adriano)	8.572226
BLISS: Christopher Columbus / Seven Waves Away	8.223315
BRITISH FILM MUSIC (UK ONLY)	8.554577
DISCOVER FILM MUSIC	8.558210-11
FAESY: Columbus / Sempach / Der Triumph der Liebe	8.225134
FANELLI: Symphonic Pictures	8.225234
HERRMANN: Jane Eyre	8.223535
HONEGGER, A.: Demon de L'Himalaya (Le) / Crime et Chatiment / Regain / L'Idee (Slovak Radio Symphony, Adriano)	8.570979
HONEGGER: Demon de L'Himalaya / Regain	8.223467
HONEGGER: ldee (L') / Crime et Chatiment	8.223466
HONEGGER: Miserable (Les) / Napoleon / Mermoz	8.223134
HONEGGER: Miserables (Les)	8.223181
HONEGGER: Miserables (Les) (1934)	8.557486
IBERT: Diane de Poitiers / La Licorne	8.223854
IBERT: La Ballade de la Geole / Trois Pieces de Ballet / Suite Elisabethaine	8.223508
IBERT: Macbeth / Golgotha / Don Quichotte	8.223287
IBERT: Macbeth / Golgotha / Don Quichotte	8.557607
KHACHATURIAN, A.I.: Othello / The Battle of Stalingrad	8.223314
LAZZARI: Symphony in E flat major / Maritime Pictures	8.223853
Marco Polo - The Label of Discovery: Sampler 1	8.223001
NORDGREN: Bergman Suites (The)	8.223682
PILATI, M.: Concerto for Orchestra / Suite for Strings and Piano (Adriano)	8.570873
PILATI: Concerto for Orchestra / Suite for Strings and Piano	8.225156
RESPIGHI, O.: Primavera (La) / Quattro Liriche / La pentola magica (Slovak Radio Symphony, Adriano)	8.570741
RESPIGHI: Aretusa / La Sensitiva / Il Tramonto	8.223347
RESPIGHI: Astuzie de Columbina (Le) / La pentola magica	8.223346
RESPIGHI: Bella dormente nel bosco (La)	8.223742
RESPIGHI: Lucrezia	8.223717
RESPIGHI: Primavera (La) / 4 Liriche	8.223595
RESPIGHI: Suite in E major / Burlesca	8.223348
RESPIGHI: Suite in E major / Symphonic Variations / Burlesca	8.557820
ROMANCE OF THE SILVER SCREEN (The)	8.578005-06
SHOSTAKOVICH: Fall of Berlin (The) / The Unforgettable Year 1919 Suite	8.223897
SHOSTAKOVICH: Fall of Berlin (The) / The Unforgettable Year 1919 Suite	8.570238
STRONG: Ondine / From a Notebook of Sketches, Suites 1-3	8.559078
STRONG: Roi Arthur (Le) / Die Nacht	8.559048
STRONG: Symphony No. 2, 'Sintram' / Chorale	8.559018
THE BEST OF MARCO POLO	8.223002
WAXMAN: Rebecca	8.223399
WAXMAN: Rebecca	8.557549