Description
- 180g Vinyl
- First time on vinyl
- Original recording 20-bit / 44.1 kHz
Responding to overwhelming popular demand, Chandos released Verdi and Variations as a 12" Vinyl LP for the first time. This venture is Chandos' first LP production in many years. The works on the record are performed by Canadian ensemble I Musici de Montreal under the direction of the late, lamented Yuli Turovsky. Despite Giuseppi Verdi's curt dismissal of his one and only chamber work as of "no importance", it nevertheless received a fantastic reception at its premier and was hailed as a masterpiece. The present recording is a string orchestra arrangement by Yuli Turovsky. The other two works represent two composer's unique takes on Verdi's music. Antonio Pasculli's Grand Concerto on Themes from Verdi's I vespri siciliani was designed to showcase the composer's considerable virtuosity as an oboist; it is here played by Philippe Magnan. Marc-Oliver Dupin's Fantasia on Arias from La Traviata (1995), revisits the "fantasy" genre in a set of six contrasting and highly entertaining variations.
Musicians:
Philippe Magnan, oboe ( I vespri siciliani)
Alexander Trostiansky, violin (La traviata)
I Musici de Montreal
Yuli Turovsky, conductor
Tracklisting:
Marc-Olivier Dupin (b.1954)
Fantasia on Arias from La traviata
A1. I. Introduction, Presto – Moderato
A2. II. Allegretto
A3. III. Andantino
A4. IV. Brillante
A5. V. Andantino
A6. VI. Allegro brillante
Antonio Pasculli (1842-1924)
A7. Grand Concerto on Themes from Verdi's I vespri siciliani
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
String Quartet in e minor arr. for strings by Y. Turovsky
B1. I. Allegro
B2. II. Andantino
B3. III. Prestissimo
B4. IV. Allegro assai mosso
