Oviedo Filarmonía

Oviedo Filarmonía – Wolf-Ferrari: Orchestral Works (2010/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:04:29 minutes | 604 MB | Genre: Classical
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Wolf-Ferrari is famous for his operatic works in which he invented a new idiom by transplanting 18th-century Venetian culture into the 20th century. But almost all of the composer’s orchestral music dates from his final years and occupies a different expressive realm.
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Oviedo Filarmonía – Wolf-Ferrari: Complete Overtures & Intermezzi (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:02:27 minutes | 570 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Naxos

With his early theatrical successes, Wolf-Ferrari brought a transparency of sound and a sense of lightness and charm to the realm of Italian opera. Alongside these qualities came a renewal of opera buffa, of which he proved to be a master – exemplified in the overtures and excerpts heard here. The comic energy and vibrancy of Il segreto di Susanna, the melodic beauty of Il campiello and the sweeping lustre of I gioielli della Madonna show how Wolf-Ferrari reinvigorated the genre through his incomparable passion and expression.
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