Kremerata Musica
Anna Maria Pammer: soprano
Felix Renggli: flute
Sharon Bezaly: flute
Markus Deuter: oboe
Heinz Holliger: oboe
Bernhard Zachhuber: clarinet
Elmar Schmid: clarinet
Radovan Vlatkovic: horn
Volker Altmann: horn
Klaus Thunemann: bassoon
Lorelei Dowling: bassoon
Maria Graf: harp
Hanna Weinmeister: violin
Gidon Kremer: violin
Gérard Caussé: viola
Firmiam Lermer: viola
Howard Penny: cello
Erich Hehenberger: double bass
Alena Chernushenko: piano
Mascha Smirnov: piano
Marino Formenti: piano
Oleg Maisenberg: piano
Hagen Quartet: string quartet
Lossless: Ape (img + cue + log) = 241 mb
Lossy: Mp3 (lame "preset standard") = 97 mb
Artwork @ 300dpi = 20 mb
Total playing time: 71:52
Recorded 1996 | Released 1997
Recording:
1996, Lockenhaus Festival, Austria (recorded live)
BIS-CD-870
Track listing:
1. Piccola Offerta Musicale for wind quintet (1943)
2. Sarabanda e Toccata per Arpa (1945) - 1 Sarabanda
3. Sarabanda e Toccata per Arpa (1945) - 2 Toccata
4. Trio per flauto, Violino e Pianoforte (1958) - 1 Allegro ma non troppo
5. Trio per flauto, Violino e Pianoforte (1958) - 2 Andante sostenuto
6. Trio per flauto, Violino e Pianoforte (1958) - 3 Allegro vivace con spirito
7. Ippolito gioca per Pianoforte (1930)
8. Il Presepio for soprano and string quartet (1958)
9. Catilena (1971)
10. Intermezzo per Viola e Pianoforte
11. Puccettino nella giungla (1971)
12. Nonetto (1959) - 1 Allegro
13. Nonetto (1959) - 2 Andante
14. Nonetto (1959) - 3 Allegro con spirito
15. Nonetto (1959) - 4 Canzone con Variazioni
16. Nonetto (1959) - 5 Vivacissimo
Reviews:
Gramophone
As with other composers who have made a big reputation with film scores (Rósza and Alwyn, to take but two examples), Nino Rota's numerous other compositions - concertos, oratorios, ballets and operas, including the entertaining Italian Straw Hat and Two Shy People - have tended to be overlooked; and these recordings from Gidon Kremer's festival last year in the little Austrian town of Lockenhaus provide an interesting focus on his chamber-music output. He was not a profound composer nor an avant-gardist, but contented himself with writing music skilfully crafted and immediately accessible, sometimes lapsing into the merely facile but, at its best, concise and tonally adventurous, with refreshingly clean, economical textures and disclosing a gift for long-breathed lines.
The most substantial work here is the Nonet, which Rota revised over a period of nearly two decades until 1977. The first and third of its five movements are characterized by a cheeky cheerfulness; the ingenious and engaging variations that constitute the fourth movement provide a showcase for each of the instruments in the ensemble. Also enjoyable is the earlier Trio, especially its finale, largely a brilliant moto perpetuo: its first movement is boisterously busy, with reflective interludes, its central Andante revealing pensive contrapuntal lines, though with a disturbed middle section that suggests some sense of frustration. Working backwards chronologically, the Intermezzo for viola is predominantly melancholy, with ong melodic contours, but with a diversity of mood; and the ternary Little Musical Offering (dedicated to Rota's teacher Casella) is both charming and effervescent: it is not only the wind quintet scoring that makes me think of the French school, Jean Françaix in particular. This work - like everything else on this disc, indeed - is expertly played, and the recording throughout is exemplary. (A pity about a cougher in the 17-year-old's piece for soprano and string quartet: otherwise there's no suspicion that an audience was present.)
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Felix Renggli: flute
Sharon Bezaly: flute
Markus Deuter: oboe
Heinz Holliger: oboe
Bernhard Zachhuber: clarinet
Elmar Schmid: clarinet
Radovan Vlatkovic: horn
Volker Altmann: horn
Klaus Thunemann: bassoon
Lorelei Dowling: bassoon
Maria Graf: harp
Hanna Weinmeister: violin
Gidon Kremer: violin
Gérard Caussé: viola
Firmiam Lermer: viola
Howard Penny: cello
Erich Hehenberger: double bass
Alena Chernushenko: piano
Mascha Smirnov: piano
Marino Formenti: piano
Oleg Maisenberg: piano
Hagen Quartet: string quartet
Lossless: Ape (img + cue + log) = 241 mb
Lossy: Mp3 (lame "preset standard") = 97 mb
Artwork @ 300dpi = 20 mb
Total playing time: 71:52
Recorded 1996 | Released 1997
Recording:
1996, Lockenhaus Festival, Austria (recorded live)
BIS-CD-870
Track listing:
1. Piccola Offerta Musicale for wind quintet (1943)
2. Sarabanda e Toccata per Arpa (1945) - 1 Sarabanda
3. Sarabanda e Toccata per Arpa (1945) - 2 Toccata
4. Trio per flauto, Violino e Pianoforte (1958) - 1 Allegro ma non troppo
5. Trio per flauto, Violino e Pianoforte (1958) - 2 Andante sostenuto
6. Trio per flauto, Violino e Pianoforte (1958) - 3 Allegro vivace con spirito
7. Ippolito gioca per Pianoforte (1930)
8. Il Presepio for soprano and string quartet (1958)
9. Catilena (1971)
10. Intermezzo per Viola e Pianoforte
11. Puccettino nella giungla (1971)
12. Nonetto (1959) - 1 Allegro
13. Nonetto (1959) - 2 Andante
14. Nonetto (1959) - 3 Allegro con spirito
15. Nonetto (1959) - 4 Canzone con Variazioni
16. Nonetto (1959) - 5 Vivacissimo
Reviews:
Gramophone
As with other composers who have made a big reputation with film scores (Rósza and Alwyn, to take but two examples), Nino Rota's numerous other compositions - concertos, oratorios, ballets and operas, including the entertaining Italian Straw Hat and Two Shy People - have tended to be overlooked; and these recordings from Gidon Kremer's festival last year in the little Austrian town of Lockenhaus provide an interesting focus on his chamber-music output. He was not a profound composer nor an avant-gardist, but contented himself with writing music skilfully crafted and immediately accessible, sometimes lapsing into the merely facile but, at its best, concise and tonally adventurous, with refreshingly clean, economical textures and disclosing a gift for long-breathed lines.
The most substantial work here is the Nonet, which Rota revised over a period of nearly two decades until 1977. The first and third of its five movements are characterized by a cheeky cheerfulness; the ingenious and engaging variations that constitute the fourth movement provide a showcase for each of the instruments in the ensemble. Also enjoyable is the earlier Trio, especially its finale, largely a brilliant moto perpetuo: its first movement is boisterously busy, with reflective interludes, its central Andante revealing pensive contrapuntal lines, though with a disturbed middle section that suggests some sense of frustration. Working backwards chronologically, the Intermezzo for viola is predominantly melancholy, with ong melodic contours, but with a diversity of mood; and the ternary Little Musical Offering (dedicated to Rota's teacher Casella) is both charming and effervescent: it is not only the wind quintet scoring that makes me think of the French school, Jean Françaix in particular. This work - like everything else on this disc, indeed - is expertly played, and the recording throughout is exemplary. (A pity about a cougher in the 17-year-old's piece for soprano and string quartet: otherwise there's no suspicion that an audience was present.)
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