La Pisanella - Suite / Concerto de l'estate (with works by Respighi and Rota)
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La Pisanella - Suite / Concerto de l'estate (with works by Respighi and Rota)
I Musici / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Lamberto Gardelli / Argo Chamber Orchestra / Laszlo Heltay
[ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 24 August 2006
Appearing on CD for the first time, Lamberto Gardelli's Pizzetti recording has been one of the most venerated in the Decca catalogue, not only because the music is comparatively rare, but because the recording is true state-of-the-art.
The music has Gallic charm and a Stravinskian sense of razor-sharp wit, not to mention a fascinating storyline in which the heroine in the incidental music for La Pisanella, Sainte Alétis (a courtesan) is killed at the end of the play by being smothered by a downpour of rose petals! The couplings return to the catalogue two other Italian orchestral works, Heltay's energetic Botticelli Pictures and the little-known and utterly charming Concerto for Strings by a composer otherwise exclusively known for his soundtracks to films, Nino Rota.
Tracks:
PIZZETTI: La Pisanella - Suite
PIZZETTI: Concerto de l'estate
RESPIGHI: Trittico Botticelliano
ROTA: Concerto for strings
