LEGENDE - ANGELERI, ORCHESTRA OF THE VENICES

LEGENDE ( CVLD125 )

Author : SARASATE PAGANINI WIENIAWSKI BAZZINI
Performer : G. ANGELERI, VENICE ORCHESTRA

Available in: SACD

Notes

Classical: Original Compositions by Sarasate, Paganini, Wieniawski, Bazzini. Giovanni Angeleri, violin; Orchestra delle Venezie. 24bit/96kHz digital recording at Duomo Vecchio, Monselice, Italy 2001.

This SACD represents one of the very rare occasions to appreciate the great violinist from Padua on recorded media. It is in fact extremely rare to find on disc this extraordinary virtuoso performer, who in 1997 won the Paganini Competition in Genoa, the only Italian, besides Salvatore Accardo and Massimo Quarta, in the decades-long history of the most important violin competition in the world. In addition to being a soloist, Angeleri also presents himself as the director of the prestigious Orchestra delle Venezie, a symphony orchestra he founded. The musical program is fascinating and lively: the dominant theme sees the contamination between the melodies and rhythms of popular music, mediated by the compositional talent of some of the most famous and appreciated "cultured" composers of the nineteenth century. Almost seamlessly, you can appreciate the gypsy echoes in Sarasate's "Fantasia sopra La Carmen" and in the "Zingaresca". To continue with the famous Paganini variations on the melodies of the "Carnevale di Venezia". And again the fantastic scherzo by Bazzini entitled "La Ronda dei Folletti", expertly orchestrated by Giovanni Angeleri himself from the original version for piano and violin. To conclude the program with two compositions by Wieniawski, "Legende", which also gives the title to the disc and the very famous "Polonaise de Concert". This SACD HYBRID MULTICHANNEL can also be used in a normal stereo CD player