Luigi Piovano

Luigi Piovano & Archi di Santa Cecilia – Mozart: Divertimenti & Eine kleine Nachtmusik (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:00:55 minutes | 1019 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Arcana

The Arcana label continues its fruitful collaboration with the Archi di Santa Cecilia, the Rome-based ensemble formed from members of the famous Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. The ensemble is conducted by Luigi Piovano, the orchestra’s principal cellist and since 2007 a regular partner in a cello-piano duo with Sir Antonio Pappano, its chief conductor (their recording of the Brahms cello sonatas will be released later this year).

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Archi di Santa Cecilia, Luigi Piovano – Tchaikovsky & Dvořák: Serenades (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 58:15 minutes | 890 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Eloquentia

Following the huge success of the 2017 release, “Cinema per archi”, featuring the music of Rota, Morricone and Piovani, the Arcana label is back with another recording by the Archi di Santa Cecilia conducted by Luigi Piovano, the eminent cellist whose duo performances with Antonio Pappano have met with widespread acclaim among chamber music aficionados. Composed of players from the excellent Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the ensemble here interprets two of the best loved works of the entire string repertoire: the Serenata in C major op. 48 by Tchaikovsky, and the Serenata in E major op. 22 by Dvořák. Both of these works have been special attractions in concert programs at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome and in other prominent concert venues throughout Italy (Ravello Festival, Naples, Ravenna, Reggio Emilia, L’Aquila, Piacenza). The Ensemble’s enormously successful first recording of music by Schubert, including Mahler’s arrangement of Death and the Maiden, was described by Ralph Moore on “MusicWeb International” as «mesmerising, intense, thrilling and liberated in a way too few recordings are these days» and elicited David Vernier to declare in “Classics Today” that «the concluding fourth-movement Presto is an impressive display of ensemble virtuosity».
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Archi di Santa Cecilia, Luigi Piovano – Cinema per archi (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:12:42 minutes | 698 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Arcana

‘Oscar™ Cinema’ might be a suitable alternative title for the new album with which the strings of the Santa Cecilia Academy (Archi di Santa Cecilia) under the direction of Luigi Piovano – principal cellist of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and for several years now also much admired as a conductor – begin their collaboration with Arcana, after two recordings for Eloquentia released in 2014 and 2015. Yes, it’s true, the three Italian composers represented here – Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone and Nicola Piovani – all won the highest honours at the American Oscar™ ceremony. But this album goes further. Alongside some of their most famous movie themes – from La strada to The Mission, from Life is beautiful to Amarcord – it also includes works written by these three screen giants for performance in concert. Although they concentrated their work on the cinema, Rota, Morricone and Piovani were still composers above all else, and their activity did not exclude an independent and committed creative dimension. Some of the pieces featured on this disc were composed or arranged for the Archi di Santa Cecilia and Luigi Piovano and are dedicated to them.
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