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This is attractive music and the BBC Philharmonic under Noseda are strong advocates. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 3rd Jun 2013
Catalogue No: CHAN10768
Label: Chandos
Series: Musica Italiana, Casella Orchestral Works
Length: 69 minutes

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Casella: Italia, Op. 11, "Rhapsody for Grand Orchestra"

Work length19:46

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Gianandrea Noseda, BBC Philharmonic
Recorded: 28 June 2012
Recording Venue: MediaCity UK, Salford

I. Lento, Grave, Tragico. Con molta fantasia

Track length5:22

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II. Lento assai - Lontano

Track length3:08

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III. Allegretto grazioso, poco mosso

Track length3:53

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IV. Allegro molto vivace. Festoso, con animo

Track length7:23

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Casella: Introduzione, Corale e Marcia, Op. 57

Work length7:48

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Gianandrea Noseda, BBC Philharmonic
Recorded: 6-7 November 2012
Recording Venue: MediaCity UK, Salford

I. Introduzione

Track length2:32

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II. Corale

Track length2:04

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III. Marcia

Track length3:12

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Casella: Symphony No. 3, Op. 63, "Sinfonia"

Work length41:52

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Gianandrea Noseda, BBC Philharmonic
Recorded: 6-7 November 2012
Recording Venue: MediaCity UK, Salford

I. Allegro mosso - Calmato

Track length10:03

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II. Andante molto moderato, quasi adagio

Track length12:15

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III. Scherzo

Track length7:22

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IV. Rondo Finale. Allegro molto vivace ed animato

Track length12:12

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This is the third volume in our survey of orchestral works by Alfredo Casella, which forms part of the ongoing Italian Music series with the BBC Philharmonic and Gianandrea Noseda. Both the two previous volumes have been very well received by reviewers and the buying public alike, with David A. McConnell of MusicWeb International commenting: ‘I am once again dumbstruck by how engaging and wonderful this music is. The orchestra plays its collective heart out, and the Chandos recording is stunning in its realism and impact.’

Casella was a fervent Italian patriot, as his Symphonic Rhapsody Italia so aptly demonstrates. In this one-movement work, the composer focuses on just two contrasting destinations in Italy: Sicily – impoverished, sun scorched, and superstitious; and Naples – bustling and carefree. Like Richard Strauss before him, in Aus Italien of 1886, Casella makes clever use of folk tunes, which he found in Favara’s Canti della terra e del mare di Sicilia. Unlike Strauss, though, Casella knew that Funiculì funiculà was not in fact a true folksong, but rather the work of the composer Luigi Denza, and in acknowledging this managed to avoid the copyright troubles that Strauss got into over its usage.

It was through his admiration for Stravinsky that Casella later found neoclassicism, a style which is strongly evident in the driving rhythms, tunefulness, and colourful orchestration of the third Symphony. The work was commissioned to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and it premiered to great acclaim in March 1941. Later it took Dresden and Vienna by storm, where it was conducted by the composer himself and Wilhelm Furtwängler, respectively.

Stravinsky’s influence is present also in the final work on this disc: Introduzione, Corale e Marcia for large orchestral forces. Structurally it may derive from César Franck’s Prélude, choral et fugue and Prélude, aria et final, but Stravinsky is there too, in the stylistic inspiration for the main theme of the Introduzione in particular, and also within the melodic material and tempo changes in the concluding Marcia.

Reviews

October 2013

This is attractive music and the BBC Philharmonic under Noseda are strong advocates.

August 2013

Noseda encourages the BBC Philharmonic to give of their considerable best throughout) the exuberant yet marvellously controlled orchestral playing towards the close of Italia really does raise the roof)...A very strong recommendation.

15th July 2013

The BBC Philharmonic is an outstanding orchestra who maintain excellent form throughout. Their playing of these multicoloured works is ideal. I love the way they can easily generate thrusting intensity then seamlessly shift to episodes of tender serenity. Noseda’s stunning interpretation of the Symphonymakes a splendid case for this marvellous work

13th June 2013

The performances are exceptional: even by their own standards, Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic have done nothing finer.

20th June 2013

Those who have been following Noseda’s Casella series will be keen to add this disc to the collection...There is a whole spectrum of influences at work on Casella, but they are subsumed into a personal, dynamic style that the BBC Philharmonic conveys with sinew and spirit.

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