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 ...
Composer: 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 ...
Composer: 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. ...
Composer: 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 ...
Composer: Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
La Sonata in B flat, D. 960 is the last and, without doubt, the most important of Schubert's three post-humous sonatas. The surviving manuscript provides the exact date of the completion of the Sonata, September 26th, 1828. Less than two months later, on November 19th, Schubert was to conclude his brief days on earth. ...
Composer: 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 ...
Composer: 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 ...
Composer: 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 ...
Composer: 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)
The program proposed in this edition might appear eclectic, heterogeneous, and selected on old-fashioned standards. But- not to mention the fact that this kind of edition is frequent in the United States and in the URSS - if the main end is to display the properties and the features of a modern instrument, like the ...
Composer: 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 ...
Composer: 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 ...
Composer: 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 ...
Composer: 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 ...
Composer: 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. ...
Composer: Girolamo Frescobaldi (1683-1643), Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
"Mozart is a touchstone of the heart. If I want to do something especially dear to someone, I sit down at the piano and play them a piece by Mozart." With these sentences, the great Mozart interpreter Edwin Fischer has said something essential. From every note of Mozart speaks an extremely sensitive and delicate, ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
"Mozart is a touchstone of the heart. If I want to do something especially dear to someone, I sit down at the piano and play them a piece by Mozart." With these sentences, the great Mozart interpreter Edwin Fischer has said something essential. From every note of Mozart speaks an extremely sensitive and delicate, ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Mozart: KV 376,377,372,402,404
"Mozart is a touchstone of the heart. If I want to do something especially dear to someone, I sit down at the piano and play them a piece by Mozart." With these sentences, the great Mozart interpreter Edwin Fischer has said something essential. From every note of Mozart speaks an extremely sensitive and delicate, loving and at ...
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Astor Piazzolla: Duettango - Revirado
Giulio Cesare Ricci is particularly fond of the music of the Argentinean tango king Astor Piazzolla, and so his label Fone repeatedly releases high-quality music by Piazzolla. On "Duettango", it is a top-class quartet that brings the Tango Nuevo to life: At the centre is violinist Fernando Suarez Paz, who played tango with Piazzolla ...
Composer: Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992)
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Crossover Jazz
