It can be said that L’Amico Fritz is an opera that was written as a challenge or wager. Pietro Mascagni was then coming back to the surface after the dazzling revelation which was Cavalleria rusticana (Rome, Costanzi Theatre, on 17 May 1890), with which he launched what was to be the new trend of the Young Italian School, though there had ...
Komponist: Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The large collection dedicated by Fonè to Mascagni (obtained cooperating with the C.E.L. -Teatro di Livorno -Teatro di Tradizione in its Pluriennal Project) is enriched by an important title: Il Piccolo Marat. Its first performance, (Teatro Costanzi, Rome, 1921) was one of the last successes of the musician from Leghom -staged by ...
Komponist: Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
After the performances of Cavalleria rusticana and L’Amico Fritz, staged by the C.E.L. Theatre of Livorno in the opera seasons of 1990 and 1991, in honour of their centenary, in 1992 it falls the hundredth anniversary of I Rantzau (The Rantzau Family), chronologically the third opera by the Livornese composer Pietro Mascagni. ...
Komponist: Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Opera
The CEL’s lyrical season has concentrated on two events. One is the presentation of an unusual, yet well lovedin Livorno, work by Mascagni. Another gem of the Mascagni project designed to reintroduce Mascagni’s work to opera audiences. The other is the birth of Tuscany’s second lyrical centre to which ...
Komponist: Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Die Sonate in B-dur, D. 960 ist die letzte und zweifellos die bedeutendste der drei posthumen Schubertschen Klaviersonaten. Aus dem uns überlieferten Manuskript ist das genaue Datum der Beendigung der Komposition ersichtlich: 26. September 1828. Wenig später, am 19. November 1828. sollte Schubert seine kurze Existenz ...
Komponist: Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Wolfang Amadeus Mozart & Franz Joseph Haydn (Remastered)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: In terms of the subtlety of many of the instrumental passages, the originality and perfection of form, and the intensity of its expressivity, the concerto in A major, written during the draught of “Figaro”, is one of the aristocrats among Mozart’s concertos, and is therefore set as a pinnacle of his ...
Komponist: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 –1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Sammartini, Platti, Nardini, Cambini (Remastered)
At the age of 14, Alain Marion passes with flying colours the finals of the Conservatoire at Marseille, the town where he was born, and where he had been studying with Joseph Rampal. He comes to Paris to have lessons with Jean-Pierre Rampal, and in 1961 is a price winner at the International Music competition at Geneva and gives ...
Komponist: Giuseppe Sammartini (1695-1750), Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1692-1763), Giuseppe Maria Cambini (1746-1825)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
O porto di Livorno traditore (Remastered)
"This song was sung by my grandfather, Attilio Fantolini, a member of the original company of the show 'O porto di Livorno traditore.' I've heard him sing it since I was a child, and as far as I know he wrote it with some friends during one of the various dinners with stornelli they used to have when they were young, ...
Genre: Vocal
Subgenre:
Nardini, Clementi, Locatelli, Platti, Cambini (Remastered)
At the age of 14, Alain Marion passes with flying colours the finals of the Conservatoire at Marseille, the town where he was born, and where he had been studying with Joseph Rampal. He comes to Paris to have lessons with Jean-Pierre Rampal, and in 1961 is a price winner at the International Music competition at Geneva and ...
Komponist: Muzio Clementi (1752-1832), Pietro Antonio Locatelli (1695-1764), Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1692-1763), Giuseppe Maria Cambini (1746-1825)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Tartini, Schubert, Lipinski, Kreisler, Bettinelli, Bartok (Remastered)
Das in dieser Ausgabe vorgestellte Programm mag auf den ersten Blick, besonders für ein europäisches Publikum überraschend und zu sehr nach traditionellen und überholten Gesichtspunkten ausgesucht erscheinen. Dabei sollte man nicht vergessen, dass besonders in den USA und der UDSSR solche Veröffentlichungen üblich ...
Komponist: Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Karol Josef Lipinski, Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962), Bruno Bettinelli (1913–2004), Bela Bartok (1881-1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini organist, harpsichordist and musicologist, completed his studies at the Conservatories of Bologna and Paris and at the University of Padua. He carries out intense concert activities in Europe, America, Japan and Australia. He has made numerous recordings and edited for Ricordi the series "Antichi Organi Italiani" for which ....
Komponist: Bernardo Pasquini (1637-1710), Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), Giambattista Martini (1706-1784), Gaetano Valeri (1760-1822), Giuseppe Gherardeschi (1759-1815)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Franz Schubert - Ludwig van Beethoven (Remastered)
The Quintet with pianoforte in La major, op. 114 (D.667) "The Trout" constitutes, together with two trios with pianoforte op. 99 and op. 100 and two lesser-known works, Schubert's contribution to music for chamber groups with pianoforte. In this passage associated with the pianoforte is the violin, the viola, the violoncello and the ...
Komponist: Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Ensemble Vocale di Napoli & Antonio Spagnolo (Remastered)
The sacred music featured in this recording exemplifies the singular vitality and quality of composers active in Naples from the mid-sixteenth century to the 'beginning of the eighteenth century: it is the music of the Spanish vice-kingdom, of a great, almost "colonial" culture, now in tune now autonomous from that of the dominant power; a ...
Komponist: Alessandro Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The Italian pianist Mario delli Ponti was immediately considered an important personality in the musical world when he made his debut in 1954. Arturo Toscanini in New York1956 and, five years later, Pablo Casals in Puerto Rico, confirmed the unanimous consensus of the public and the critics. Winner of the “Bach Medal” (London 1957), Mario delli Ponti had the ...
Komponist: Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Missa in festis Beatae Mariae Virginis (Remastered)
On the occasion of the 350th anniversary of Monteverdi and Frescobaldi's death, two among the greatest Italian Baroque musicians, a relation between them, in the field of sacred music, has been looked for. Thus a supposed Mass of their time tributed to the Holy Virgin has been planned, where compositions by the two musicians are alternatively proposed, with the more elaborate parts left to the choir and to the organist. ...
Komponist: Girolamo Frescobaldi (1683-1643), Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
„Mozart ist ein Prüfstein des Herzens. Wenn ich jemandem etwas besonders Liebes antun möchte, setze ich mich ans Klavier und spiele ihm ein Stück von Mozart.“ Mit diesen Sätzen hat der große Mozart-Interpret Edwin Fischer Wesentliches ausgesprochen. Aus jeder Note Mozarts spricht ein überaus sensibler und feiner, ...
Komponist: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
„Mozart ist ein Prüfstein des Herzens. Wenn ich jemandem etwas besonders Liebes antun möchte, setze ich mich ans Klavier und spiele ihm ein Stück von Mozart.“ Mit diesen Sätzen hat der große Mozart-Interpret Edwin Fischer Wesentliches ausgesprochen. Aus jeder Note Mozarts spricht ein überaus sensibler und feiner, ...
Komponist: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mozart: KV 376,377,372,402,404
„Mozart ist ein Prüfstein des Herzens. Wenn ich jemandem etwas besonders Liebes antun möchte, setze ich mich ans Klavier und spiele ihm ein Stück von Mozart.“ Mit diesen Sätzen hat der große Mozart-Interpret Edwin Fischer Wesentliches ausgesprochen. Aus jeder Note Mozarts spricht ein überaus sensibler und feiner, ...
Komponist: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Astor Piazzolla: Duettango - Revirado
Die Musik des argentinischen Tango-Königs Astor Piazzolla hat es Giulio Cesare Ricci besonders angetan, und so gibt es auf seinem Label Fone immer wieder hochwertig gemachte Veröffentlichungen mit Musik Piazzollas. Auf „Duettango“ ist es ein hochkarätiges Quartett, das den Tango Nuevo zum Klingen bringt: Im Zentrum steht Violinist ...
Komponist: Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992)
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
