Rolla - Viola Concertos, Symphony in D, Tantum ergo
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95504
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 11th January 2019
Contents
Works
Sinfonia in D major, BI533Tantum ergo, BI568
Viola Concerto in D major, BI543
Viola Concerto in F major, BI550
Artists
Simonide Braconi (viola)Salvo Vitale (bass)
Orchestra da camera ‘Il Demetrio’
Conductor
Maurizio SchiavoWorks
Sinfonia in D major, BI533Tantum ergo, BI568
Viola Concerto in D major, BI543
Viola Concerto in F major, BI550
Artists
Simonide Braconi (viola)Salvo Vitale (bass)
Orchestra da camera ‘Il Demetrio’
Conductor
Maurizio SchiavoAbout
The F major Viola Concerto opening this attractive new album belongs to Rolla’s apprentice years in service to the ducal court at Parma. With its uncompromising technical demands and unwavering focus on the solo instrument, the concerto represents a missing link between the idioms of Tartini and Paganini. The dawn of bel canto may be discerned in the slow movement of the album’s concluding D minor Viola Concerto, which concludes with a charmingly bucolic Rondo.
Dating from Rolla’s Milanese years, the 1805 Tantum ergo also features a concertante role for the viola, in sinuous accompaniment to the vocal bass soloist: a highly original device perhaps prompted by Mozart’s famous Sinfonia Concertante. As a performer, Rolla reserved the most haunting melodies and moments for himself: After a vocal cadenza on the closing Amen it is the viola that sets the seal on the work with an intensely lyrical phrase and a brilliantly virtuosic stretta. The D major Sinfonia likewise belongs to the first decade of the 1800s – infused with Rossinian verve and bubbling with operatic drama in the quick outer movements.
The Milanese violist Simonide Braconi plays Rolla’s music to the manner born, being the long-standing principal violist at La Scala. He is accompanied here by a chamber orchestra based in nearby Pavia and specialising in Classical-era works by neglected composers.
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