Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - Andretta

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy ( CVLD045 )

Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto
Giancarlo Andretta (host)
Domenico Nordio (violin)

Tracks

Concert in E minor op. 64 for violin and orchestra
1 Allegro con fuoco 12'46”
2 Andante 8'46”
3 Allegro molto vivace 6'34”
Symphony No. 4 in A major op.90 “Italiana”
4 Allegro vivace 11'20”
5 Andante with motorcycle 6'11”
6 With moderate motion 6'59”
7 Saltarello, Presto 5'30”
Total time 57'59”

Recording was made at Auditorium Pollini, Padova, Italy, on August 21/22, 2000, using the ultimate and the most advanced digital technology, based upon Prism Sound Dream AD2 24Bit/96kHz AD converter.
Marco Lincetto choose Schoeps Microphones and Dromos cables.
Fabio Framba choose Sonic Solutions USP Digital Workstation.

Introductory remarks by Radu Lidjienko
Our mind is the most inaccessible place in the Universe. It seems to be a black box, where a little bit of everything enters, in bulk, often without any order, and from which completely different things come out. The charm that some special product of the human mind exerts on us, is partly due to the aura of mystery that surrounds the human mind itself. How could it happen that someone could have thought of producing something so perfect, so complex? How does it happen that a rare human being produces perfection, complexity and beauty, since the norm of human beings spends their entire life in the most absolute creative constipation, rarely and laboriously giving birth to things that transmit nothing to us? Our understanding of these phenomena is flawed from the basic error of separating human beings from everything else, which we imagine simply as the backdrop for our deeds as superior beings. An equatorial forest, with its scents, its colors and all the organisms that work together to keep it alive, perfect and complex as it is, is it in its own way a work of art? On the contrary, it is not Is it perhaps completely “natural” that some special men produce music like the one you will hear on this CD? Returning us all to nature, to the whole that contains us, and renouncing the fascinating idea of the black box, which only works for brilliant beings , we would lose nothing, and we could instead observe the perfection of the design on the wings of a butterfly with the same spirit with which we observe a painting, above all with the same respect, and also spending much less, as long as there are butterflies flying for free in the meadows . Nature, at this point in its aimless history, has produced everything that exists today, including the genius of the one who conceived this music. That genius has worked to ensure that his fellow men are traversed by the same mysterious wave that in him had originated these sounds. Nature has also produced the CD you are holding in your hand. It has produced the extraordinary and inexplicable talent of the soloist, the conductor and the orchestra itself. Complexity and perfection are in the mind of those who conceive the music, as much as in reality. of the infinite facts that contribute to building the path that has brought this CD to you. The musicians who play here have been able to dedicate an important part of their lives to letting themselves be crossed by the musical ideas of a genius composer of music. We have a task equally challenging: to enjoy, to understand, and to enjoy understanding. I believe this is the greatest benefit offered to those who have the opportunity to belong to the human species.