Composer(s): Casella, Alfredo
Lyricist(s): Carducci, Giosue
Conductor(s): La Vecchia, Francesco
Label: Naxos
Series: 19th/20th Century Italian Classics
Genre: Concerto; Orchestral; Vocal
Period: 20th Century
Catalogue No: 8.572416
Barcode: 747313241675
Release Date: 10/2010

CASELLA, A.: Notte di maggio / Cello Concerto / Scarlattiana (Andreini, Noferini, Sun-Hee You, Rome Symphony, La Vecchia)

From mysterious moonlit night to joyous sunlit day, this recording runs the gamut of Alfredo Casella’s huge stylistic range. Notte di maggio (‘A Night in May’), composed in the wake of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, is Casella at his most radical, while the delightful ‘Divertimento’ Scarlattiana finds him at his most relaxed, spicing up themes from Domenico Scarlatti’s keyboard sonatas—in the manner of Stravinsky’s Pulcinella. Between them comes Casella’s Cello Concerto, its style influenced by the ‘baroque magnificence of Rome’, with a finale the composer called ‘the flight of the improved bumblebee’.

Tracklist

Casella, Alfredo
Carducci, Giosue - Lyricist
Andreini, Olivia (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma (Orchestra)
La Vecchia, Francesco (Conductor)
1 Notte di maggio, Op. 20 15:03
Andreini, Olivia (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma (Orchestra)
La Vecchia, Francesco (Conductor)
Casella, Alfredo
Noferini, Andrea (cello)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma (Orchestra)
La Vecchia, Francesco (Conductor)
2 I. Allegro molto vivace 09:22
Noferini, Andrea (cello)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma (Orchestra)
La Vecchia, Francesco (Conductor)
3 II. Largo - Grave 07:42
Noferini, Andrea (cello)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma (Orchestra)
La Vecchia, Francesco (Conductor)
4 III. Presto vivacissimo 04:25
Noferini, Andrea (cello)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma (Orchestra)
La Vecchia, Francesco (Conductor)
You, Sun Hee (piano)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma (Orchestra)
La Vecchia, Francesco (Conductor)
5 I. Sinfonia: Lento grave, allegro molto vivace 05:31
You, Sun Hee (piano)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma (Orchestra)
La Vecchia, Francesco (Conductor)
6 II. Minuetto: Allegretto ben moderato e grazioso 08:25
You, Sun Hee (piano)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma (Orchestra)
La Vecchia, Francesco (Conductor)
7 III. Capriccio: Allegro vivacissimo e impetuoso 03:56
You, Sun Hee (piano)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma (Orchestra)
La Vecchia, Francesco (Conductor)
8 IV. Pastorale: Andantino dolcemente mosso 05:35
You, Sun Hee (piano)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma (Orchestra)
La Vecchia, Francesco (Conductor)
9 V. Finale: Lento molto e grave 06:19
You, Sun Hee (piano)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma (Orchestra)
La Vecchia, Francesco (Conductor)

Total Playing Time: 01:06:18