Alfredo Casella – Concerto for Orchestra, Pagine di guerra, Suite (2012, FLAC)

Tracks:

01. Suite in C major, Op. 13 – I. Ouverture [0:08:02.66]
02. II. Sarabande [0:11:30.21]
03. III. Bourree [0:06:48.16]
04. Pagine di guerra, Op. 25bis – I. Nel Belgio: sfilata di artiglieria pesante tedesca [0:01:57.72]
05. II. In Francia: Davanti alle rovine della cattedrale di Reims [0:02:24.04]
06. III. In Russia: Carica di cavalleria cosacca [0:01:16.33]
07. IV. In Alsazia: Croci di legno [0:02:51.34]
08. V. Nell’Adriatico: Corazzate italiane in crociera [0:02:29.26]
09. Concerto for Orchestra, Op. 61 – I. Sinfonia [0:10:01.16]
10. II. Passacaglia [0:15:01.58]
11. III. Inno [0:07:32.17]

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Alfredo Casella identified three different periods in his composing career, and this disc features one work from each. The Suite in C major is early Casella, a fascinating combination of influences from the French Baroque through Domenico Scarlatti to Mahler. War Pages are images of the horrific mechanised warfare of 1914–18, as seen on silent cinema newsreels: among the music’s admirers was Puccini. Casella himself felt that the Concerto, Op 61—a commission for the 50th birthday of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra—was his ‘most complete achievement in the field of orchestral music’.

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