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Alfredo Casella composed his Concerto for Orchestra in 1937 for the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam and Willem Mengelberg. At the time, there were very few
You simply have to hear this. Alfredo Casella’s Suite, Op.
Laura Newell (1900-1981) first came to prominence in the 1930s and ’40s as the Cleveland Orchestra’s principal harpist. She also was a major player on
Since a good number of piano works by Busoni, Casella, and Respighi flirt with ancient content, it makes sense both conceptually and musically for Umberto
Francesco La Vecchia’s recordings of modern Italian music for Naxos
How is it that we live in a world where the record industry complains constantly that nothing sells, that the market for classical music is
The composer that Casella most resembles in his chameleon-like musical
Notte di maggio is a gorgeous, impressionistic tone poem for voice and orchestra dating from 1913, making it one of Alfredo Casella’s early works. Full
It never rains, it pours in the classical music business. Just as Chandos releases a fine recording of Alfredo Casella’s Mahler-meets-Borodin Second Symphony, along comes
If Alfredo Casella didn’t completely disavow his First Symphony, he did write it off to the point of re-using the gorgeous slow movement (re-scored) in
