Orchestral, Symphonies, Casella (composer)
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Casella: Orchestral Works Volume 1
RecommendedMartin Roscoe (piano)
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda
...this is a remarkable and engaging work in its own right, with some striking features. In particular, the beautiful opening of the final 'Epilogo' is breathtakingly beautiful...the BBC Philharmonic... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st May 2010
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As with the series as a whole, the performances are exemplary. Noseda’s familiar combination of rigour and emotional extremism is in evidence throughout...Gillian Keith is the aptly glacial-sounding... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Gianandrea Noseda: Ten Years of Musica Italiana
BBC Philharmonic & Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino, Gianandrea Noseda
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This is attractive music and the BBC Philharmonic under Noseda are strong advocates. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2013, Editor's Choice
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Casella: Symphony No. 1
RecommendedDesirée Scuccuglia (piano) & Antonio Ceravolo (percussion)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia
The performances here are excellent. Francesco La Vecchia drives the orchestra hard in the symphony, with a big payoff in terms of emotional spontaneity and impact…This boldly engineered disc... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st May 2010
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Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra - The Columbia Stereo Collection
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Editorial Achievement of the Year
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Casella: Symphony No. 2 & La donna serpente: Orchestral Fragments
Sinfonieorchester Munster, Fabrizio Ventura
[The Symphony is] a turbulent outpouring in four movement, the last of which culminates in a grandiloquent epilogue…Chandos’s splendiferously realistic sound is the icing on a very rich cake. —
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As presented here, Alfredo Casella's musical language is imposing, his structures formidable and, in the case of the enormously exciting march-threnody Elegia, "to the memory of a soldier killed... —
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Casella - Sinfonia per orchestra & Italia
Première Recording
WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln, Alun Francis
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The performers bring lots of character and warm yet agile playing to the Suite Sobre Cantos Gallegos, a lushly scored, sometimes piquant evocation of Galicia. —
