Franco Alfano - Cello Sonata, Concerto | Naxos - Italian Classics 8570928

Franco Alfano - Cello Sonata, Concerto

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Label: Naxos - Italian Classics

Cat No: 8570928

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 29th June 2009

Contents

Artists

Samuel Magill (cello)
Scott Dunn (piano)
Elmira Darvarova (violin)

Works

Alfano, Franco

Cello Sonata
Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano

Artists

Samuel Magill (cello)
Scott Dunn (piano)
Elmira Darvarova (violin)

About

Franco Alfano’s completion of Puccini’s opera Turandot has eclipsed his own reputation, although the profound ability of this talented composer is finally emerging into the light.

The works on this disc display contrasting aspects of his musical personality. The large-scale Cello Sonata, with its echoes of Debussy and Ravel, grows from serene beginnings to turbulent intensity before subsiding into elegiac resignation.

The more neoclassical Concerto, actually a piano trio, weaves hints of Renaissance polyphony with Basque and eastern European folk music into a shimmering fabric of virtuosity and lyricism.

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