Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto & Marco Angius – Henze: Reinventions Arrangements of Mozart, C.P.E. Bach & Vitali (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:41 minutes | 524 MB | Genre: Classical
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German composer Hans Werner Henze’s (1926–2012) admiration for the great masters of the Baroque and musical Classicism manifested in compositions born from a desire to transcribe, rework and transform 17th- and 18th-century masterpieces into new orchestral textures. The project Travestimenti (Disguises), managed by conductor Marco Angius and the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, from which this CD was created, makes reference to Henze’s ‘reinventions’ of masterpieces by Mozart, C.P.E. Bach and Vitali, clothed in new, modern fashion.
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Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Marco Angius & Angius Marco – Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder, Siegfried Idyll, Träume; Sciarrino: Languire a Palermo (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:36 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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Richard Wagner began composing his Wesendonck Lieder during a stay in Zurich between November and December 1857. Originally conceived for female voice and piano alone, the five songs were later orchestrated, first by the Austrian conductor and composer Felix Mottl in 1893, and then later in 1976 by the German composer Hans Werner Henze, in a chamber setting. In fact Wagner had already orchestrated a version of “Tr”aume” to be performed by chamber orchestra (with violin playing the voice part) on the occasion of his wife Minna’s birthday in 1857. Later, in 1870, for his second wife Cosima’s 33rd birthday, he enacted a similar gesture. Mixing new motifs with themes from his Ring cycle, he composed the Siegfried Idyll and had it performed by a small orchestra as a birthday surprise.
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