Orch De La Suisse Romande
Mozart: Symphonies 29 & 34 [ Testament / CD - released 7/Jul/2003 ] |
Orch Sinf Di Roma/La Vecchia
Mancinelli: Scene Veneziane [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] |
OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Respighi: Complete Orchestral Music Volume 2 [Incls 'Trittico Botticelliano'] Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco la Vecchia [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Sep/2012 ] The second installment of the Complete Orchestral Works of Ottorino Respighi contains a wealth of the slightly lesser known works (the most famous of course being the Roman Trilogy, issued in the first volume) of the highest quality: the luminous... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Violin Concertos / Symphonies 26, 52 & 53 Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Elizabeth Wallfisch / La Petite Band / Sigiswald Kuijken [ Virgin Veritas / 2 CD - released 5/Jul/2000 ] 'These are fresh, vital, cleanly articulated performances which wear their authenticity lightly' Penguin Guide |
GIOVANNI SGAMBATI
Sgambati: Symphony No. 2 / Sinfonia Epitalamio ('Nuptial Symphony') Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della RAI, Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Dec/2022 ] Giovanni Sgambati, a composer admired by Wagner, was the man Busoni predicted would take Italian music 'towards a bright new future'. Sgambati's Symphony No. 2 is a compendium of Austro-Germanic devices whose mix of chromaticism and melodic invention... |
OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Respighi: The Complete Orchestral Music [8 CD set] Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia [ Brilliant Classics / 8 CD Box Set - released 22/Aug/2015 ] The only edition of the orchestral works by Respighi, now available in a 8CD set! |
OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Respighi: Complete Orchestral Music Vol 1 [Incls 'Roman Festivals'] Orchestra Sinfonica Di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2012 ] "La Vecchia secures eloquently wrought readings" (Gramophone) |
RESPIGHI
Complete Orchestral Music Volume 4 [Incls 'Ancient Airs and Dances'] Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 8/Nov/2013 ] Brilliant Classics' survey of Respighi's complete orchestral music continues here, with a release that explores the Italian composer's modernising of the past, as well as two of his most mature creations, written in the last eleven years of his life. |
ALFREDO CASELLA
Concerto for Orchestra / Pagine di Guerra / Suite Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma / Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Dec/2012 ] Alfredo Casella identified three different periods in his composing career, and this disc features one work from each. The Suite in C major is early Casella, a fascinating combination of influences from the French Baroque through Domenico Scarlatti... |
FRANCO FERRARA
Fantasia tragica / Notte di tempesta / Burlesca / Preludio Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma / Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 21/Sep/2011 ] The Fantasia tragica is a 'symphonic homage' to Shostakovich, modelled on the third movement ('Eternal Memory') of the Russian composer's 11th Symphony. The youthful Burlesca attests to his high spirited and superbly realised string writing and... |
GIAN FRANCESCO MALIPIERO
Impressioni dal vero & Pause del silenzio Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] These mainly world première recordings of five of Malipiero's most characteristic works fill an important gap in the catalogue. The Impressioni dal vero (Impressions from Life) express the composer's feelings amid nature and Italian rural life, from... |
CASELLA
La donna serpente Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma / Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jan/2013 ] This latest disc in the Naxos series of Casella's orchestral music represents what Casella felt was his 'definitive personality'. The Introduction, Aria and Toccata epitomises his 'monumental Baroque style' of the late 1920s and early 1930s. A few... |
GIOVANNI SGAMBATI
Sgambati: Symphony No. 1 Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jan/2013 ] His overture Cola di Rienzo exemplifies his richness of characterisation while the First Symphony is a major statement of breadth and intensity, admired by Grieg and Saint-Saëns, and often conducted by Toscanini. |
CASELLA
Sinfonia (Symphony No. 3), Op. 63 / Elegia eroica (‘Heroic Elegy’), Op. 29 Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma / Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Jul/2011 ] "the symphony, superbly played here, has a resolute individual voice and drive. The Elegia eroica, mourning victims of the First World War, blends poignancy and bitter anger." (The Daily Telegraph) |
MUZIO CLEMENTI
Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jan/2013 ] Muzio Clementi was 'The Father of the pianoforte', a performer, teacher, publisher and manufacturer of pioneering importance. But in addition to the works for piano, he also wrote a series of symphonies which, along with Cherubini's D major Symphony... |
GOFFREDO PETRASSI
Partita & Divertimento Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia, Carlo Putelli (tenor), Davide Malvestio (bass), Nuovo Coro Lirico Sinfonico Romano [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Mar/2013 ] Goffredo Petrassi was one of the most important Italian composers of the twentieth century. Beginning with the previously unrecorded Divertimento in C, this release focuses on Petrassi's compositions of the 1930s and 40s. |
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, MiNensemblet, Francesco La Vecchia
Franchetti: Symphony & Nella Foresta Nera - Wolf-Ferrari: Sinfonia da camera [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Jun/2024 ] Alberto Franchetti and Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari shared a similar dual heritage. |
Orchestre De La Suisse Romande
Bruckner: Symphony No 3 (1889 [ Pentatone / Hybrid SACD - released 17/Sep/2012 ] |
Orchestre De La Suisse Romande
Bruckner: Symphony No.7 (Nowak [ Pentatone / SACD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] |
GEORGES BIZET / GABRIEL FAURE / CHARLES GOUNOD
Bizet: L'Arlésienne Suites & music by Faure & Gounod Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Kazuki Yamada [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 23/Dec/2013 ] This is the first album of a series of three which feature ballet/theatre/dance music... |