Utwory na płycie:

• Casella – Symphony No. 2 – II. Allegro molto vivace
• Respighi – La Boutique fantastique – Galop

Casella:
Symphony No. 2 (movt II)
Symphonic Fragments from La donna serpente:
Sinfonia and Preludio
Concerto per Orchestra (Sinfonia)

Dallapiccola:
Tartiniana (movmts I and II)
Symphonic Fragments from Marsia (two dances)
Partita (Recitativo e Fanfara)
Three Questions with Two Answers (movt IV)

Respighi:
La Boutique fantasque (Nocturne and Galop)
Burlesca
Five Études-tableaux

(Marche funebre and Le Chaperon rouge et le loup)

Verdi:
I vespri siciliani (Sinfonia)
Te Deum

Petrassi:
Magnificat (excerpts)
Salmo IX° (excerpts)
Partita (I Gagliarda)

Wolf-Ferrari:
La dama boba (Overture)

Puccini:
Suor Angelica (Intermezzo)

Giordano:
Siberia (Prelude, Act II)

Ponchielli:
La Gioconda (Dance of the Hours)

Mascagni:
L’amico Fritz (Intermezzo)

This special ‘2for1’ compilation release celebrates ten years of Gianandrea Noseda’s Musica Italiana series. Recording with both the BBC Philharmonic and the Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino, Noseda has shown a remarkable commitment to championing long-forgotten scores by well-known composers as well as the finest works by altogether neglected ones.

On Disc 1 he revives several works long absent from the concert hall. His recordings of the Symphony No. 2, Symphonic Fragments and Concerto for Orchestra excerpted here have brought Casella’s music to a new and passionate audience. Luigi Dallapiccola, a composer particularly close to Noseda’s heart, is known for his lyrical, Italianate take on Schoenberg’s twelve-tone system; three contrasting works are represented here. Noseda’s highly acclaimed Respighi recordings heard here look beyond the tone poems for which the composer is best known, shining a light on some equally ravishing scores.

Disc 2 presents a collection of orchestral movements from the richly romantic Italian operatic repertoire of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Alongside works by the towering masters Verdi and Puccini are less familiar works byWolf-Ferrari, Giordano, Ponchielli, and Mascagni. Completing this celebration of Italian music are substantial excerpts from choral works by Goffredo Petrassi, taken from a recording that was widely praised, earning a BBC Music Magazine Award nomination.