Felix Bender, Michael Seal, WDR Funkhausorchester Köln - Nino Rota: Film Music; Concertos (2023)
Felix Bender, Michael Seal, WDR Funkhausorchester Köln - Nino Rota: War and Peace; Castel del Monte; Orchestra Rehearsal; Harp Concerto; Concerto for Strings (2023)
WEB FLAC | Tracks ~ 368 Mb | Total time: 83:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Capriccio | # C5494 | Recorded: 2019
WEB FLAC | Tracks ~ 368 Mb | Total time: 83:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Capriccio | # C5494 | Recorded: 2019
When Toscanini encouraged Nino Rota to study at the Curtis Institute, where instructions by Fritz Reiner and a friendship with Aaron Copland awaited the precocious composer, it was already clear he would have a massive career. Only the direction wasn’t certain yet. It turned out to be classical music and film music, the former informing the latter. Notable when you listen to the delicious waltz Rota from War & Peace or the darkly humorous snippets from the very apropos Orchestra Rehearsal. And while the de-facto horn concertino Castel del Monte, inspired by King Frederick II’s famous medieval castle in southern Italy, isn’t technically film music, it very much sounds like music to a fantasy film of Rota’s imagining.
Performer:
Esther Peristerakis, harp (17-19)
Marcel Sobol, horn (12)
WDR Funkhausorchester Köln
Felix Bender, conductor
Michael Seal, conductor (17-19)
Tracklist:
Nino Rota (1911-1979)
Guerra e pace, Suite (1956)
01. Introduzione
02. Momento musicale
03. Valzer
04. Poloniase
05. La Rosa di Novgorod
06. Nr. 54
07. Andrea e Natascha
08. Nr. 66
09. Nr. 67
10. Ritorno a Mosca
11. Nr. 73
12. Castel del Monte, Ballata per corno & orchestra (1974)
Concerto per Archi (1964-65)
13. Preludo
14. Scherzo
15. Aria
16. Finale
Concerto per Arpa e Orchestra (1947)
17. Allegro moderato
18. Andante
19. Allegro
Prova d'orchestra (1978)
20. Risatine maliziose
21. Valzerino Nr. 72
22. Galop
Felix Bender, Michael Seal, WDR Funkhausorchester Köln - Nino Rota: Film Music; Concertos (2023)
Thanks to the original releaser