Nino Rota - Symphony No.3, Concertos
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHAN10669
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 3rd May 2011
Contents
Works
Concerto soiree for piano and orchestraDivertimento concertante for double bass and orchestra
Symphony no.3 in C major
Artists
Davide Botto (double bass)Barry Douglas (piano)
Filarmonica ’900 del Teatro Regio, Turin
Conductor
Gianandrea NosedaWorks
Concerto soiree for piano and orchestraDivertimento concertante for double bass and orchestra
Symphony no.3 in C major
Artists
Davide Botto (double bass)Barry Douglas (piano)
Filarmonica ’900 del Teatro Regio, Turin
Conductor
Gianandrea NosedaAbout
The concert music by Rota on this recording is every bit as tuneful and entertaining as his many film scores. All the works are idiomatically performed by largely Italian forces: the Filarmonica '900 del Teatro Regio, Turin, is conducted by Gianandrea Noseda.
Rota’s first two symphonies, both of which originated in the late 1930s (recorded on CHAN10546), are direct descendants of the romantic tradition. Composed in 1956–57, Symphony No.3 is generally less serious in content, and written in a lighter and essentially neoclassical style.
The CD also includes Rota’s Divertimento concertante for double-bass and orchestra, with the Italian double-bass player Davide Botto as soloist. This work was originally written for the Italian virtuoso Franco Petracchi, and offers in the first movement a reminder of the instrument’s extraordinarily wide pitch range as it covers nearly four octaves. Rota then takes us on a journey, in which the hero - the double-bass - performs a cheerful burlesque march in the second movement, before taking on a more lyrical role in the third movement. The finale opens with a sprightly tune that inspires the double-bass to challenge the woodwind in agility, but also in terms of high-pitched brilliance.
The Concerto soirée is in a category of its own. It is best described as a piano concerto written in the spirit of Rossini’s Soirées musicales, in which new and exclusive Chandos artist Barry Douglas, as soloist, is required not to perform virtuoso feats in a romantic grand manner, but rather to amuse himself and the orchestra with a variety of sociable ideas. The result is a work which is lively and light-hearted.
Barry Douglas recently joined Chandos as an exclusive artist, and this is his first recording on the label. Since winning the Gold Medal at the 1986 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow, he has established a major international career. He is the Artistic Director of Camerata Ireland, and of the Clandeboye Festival and Castletown Concerts in Ireland – and as a soloist, he regularly performs with such orchestras as the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, Duisburger Philharmoniker, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Ulster Orchestra, and the London, City of Birmingham, Cincinnati, Singapore, BBC, Baltimore and Atlanta symphony orchestras.
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