095115184028

Petrassi: Italian Music

Orch Regio Torino/Moseda

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Format: CD

Cat No: CHAN10840

Release Date:  01 January 2015

Label:  Chandos

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  095115184028

Genres:  Classical  

Composer/Series:  Petrassi

  • Description

    This new Petrassi recording with Gianandrea Noseda and his Italian forces is part of our ongoing Italian music series. Last year's release of Salmo IX° and the Magnificat (CHAN 10750) was widely praised, Gramophone stating: 'The performances by the forces of Teatro Regio, Turin, are committed and persuasive... Excellent sound makes this a thoroughly recommendable release and I hope Chandos and Noseda go on to give us more choral Petrassi, such as Coro di morti' - which indeed features on this album. The Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino is joined in Quattro inni sacri by the internationally famous tenor Giorgio Berrugi and by the baritone Vasily Ladyuk, who is a regular guest soloist at the Bolshoi and Novaya Opera Theatres. Like the roughly contemporaneous Noche oscura and Quattro inni sacri, composed round 1950, the superb Coro di morti is one of the most extraordinary statements of the art of Petrassi at the beginning of the 1940s. It remains one of the most admired and frequently performed of his compositions. According to Cardinal Andrea Lanza, the work, composed and premiered during the Second World War, reveals a marked 'opposition in discourse... between the solitude of man and the destruction surrounding him', all of which is clearly relayed in the harrowing contrast between relaxed choral lines on the one hand and solid conglomeration of instruments on the other. The Partita is one of the earliest works Petrassi composed, yet one of his most famous and still-performed. It achieves explosive brilliance and shows the composer's precocious and accomplished control of orchestral technique.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Gagliarda. Mosso E Energico - Meno Mosso - Un Po' Animato - Un Poco Animato - Orchestra Teatro Regio
      • 2. Ciaccona. Molto Moderato - Poco Più Mosso - Mosso - Sostenuto - Largo - Orchestra Teatro Regio Tori
      • 3. Giga. Gaio E Leggero (Non Molto Mosso) - Poco Più Mosso - Energico (Sempre Mosso) - Orchestra Teatr
      • 4. Giga. Gaio E Leggero (Non Molto Mosso) - Poco Più Mosso - Energico (Sempre Mosso) - Various Perform
      • 5. Te Lucis Ante Terminum. Lento - Poco Più Mosso - Various Performers
      • 6. Lucis Creator Optime. Solenne, Ma Non Troppo Lento - Mosso - Poco Meno Mosso - Various Performers
      • 7. Salvete Christi Vulnera. Allegro (Non Troppo) Con Gaudio - Poco Meno - Meno (Andante) - Various Perf
      • 8. Noche Oscura - Coro Teatro Regio Torino/ Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino
      • 9. Andante Lento. 'Sola Nel Mondo Eterna' - Coro Teatro Regio Torino/ Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino
      • 10. Scherzo Strumentale. Moderato - Coro Teatro Regio Torino/ Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino
      • 11. Andante Lento. 'Vivemmo: E Qual Di Paurosa Larva' - Coro Teatro Regio Torino/ Orchestra Teatro Regio
      • 12. Tempo Dello Scherzo - Sostenuto (Ma Non Troppo) - Coro Teatro Regio Torino/ Orchestra Teatro Regio T
      • 13. Moderatissimo. 'Che Fummo?' - Coro Teatro Regio Torino/ Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino