Alfredo Piatti: The Operatic Fantasies Vol. 1

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Release Date: 18th Jun 2020
Catalogue No: CDE84642
Label: Meridian
Length: 71 minutes

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Piatti: Souvenir de Beatrice di Tenda

Work length14:42

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Adrian Bradbury (cello), Oliver Davies (piano)

Piatti: Souvenir de La Sonnambula, Op. 5

Work length11:31

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Adrian Bradbury (cello), Oliver Davies (piano)

Piatti: Souvenir des Puritani, Op. 9

Work length12:51

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Adrian Bradbury (cello), Oliver Davies (piano)

Piatti: Capriccio sulla 'Niobe' di Giovanni Pacini, Op. 22

Work length10:07

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Piatti: Fantasia sopra alcuni motivi della Gemma di Vergy in D Major

Work length16:33

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Piatti: Impromptu on an air by Purcell in the Indian Queen

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Adrian Bradbury (cello), Oliver Davies (piano)

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Liszt gifted him an Amati cello, Mendelssohn and Arthur Sullivan wrote him concertos, Verdi wrote him an overture solo, Ernst invited him (along with Joachim on 2nd violin and Wieniawski on viola) to give the first complete Beethoven quartet cycle in Britain, he was chosen to give the British premiere of the Schumann concerto.... from his debut tour of 1843-4 Alfredo Piatti soon became Europe’s, and especially London’s, favourite cellist. But while it was concertos and chamber music that secured his fame, it was opera that fashioned him. His boyhood had been spent playing in the opera orchestras of Bergamo, accompanying the finest bel canto singers of the era, and in London he became principal cello of the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden. So it was with his own fantasy compositions on operatic themes that Piatti launched his career, astonishing European salons and concert halls with an unrivalled cantabile and extreme virtuosity. Six of these operatic fantasies have been lovingly restored in this first volume of a 2-CD set by Adrian Bradbury and Oliver Davies from manuscripts and long-lost editions generously made available by the Alfredo Piatti archive in Bergamo. Irresistible in their own right for their eloquence and wizardry these fantasies, through Piatti’s carefully annotated expressive articulations, decorations and fingerings, also offer the listener a fascinating insight into bel canto performance practice from a cellist who had been accompanying singers like Giuditta Pasta, Grisi, Rubini, Lablache, Tamburini, Jenny Lind and Michael Balfe from the tender age of eight.

Alfredo Piatti: The Operatic Fantasies Vol. 1

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