570567bk Pasculli US:570034bk Hasse 15/4/08 10:59 AM Page 4 Ivan Paisov Ivan Paisov was born in Moscow in 1973 into a family of famous musicians. He first Antonio studied at the Moscow Central Special Music School and in 1997 graduated from the Russian Gnesin Music Academy as a pupil of Professor Pushechnikov. Ivan Paisov is a prize-winner in international festivals and contests, including those in Sveradov PASCULLI (Poland) and Druskininkai (Lithuania). In 1992 he joined the famous Bolshoy Theatre Orchestra as a principal oboist and since then he has not only toured with this orchestra but has given solo recitals and concerts with other leading orchestras in Russia and Operatic Fantasias for abroad. His appearances include performances at various festivals in Russia, Italy, Finland, and Sweden, as well as in Japan, Yugoslavia and South Korea. His repertoire includes over forty oboe concertos and about fifteen solo recital programmes. He has Oboe and Piano a very special interest in rare repertoire and in the works of living composers. Ivan Paisov has made numerous radio recordings. He founded and became the artistic director of the Adagio Chamber Music Ensemble in 2000 and has been a leading Ivan Paisov, Oboe performer with the Moscow State Philarmonic Society since 2006. He plays a Rigoutat oboe. Photo of Ivan Paisov: Vladimir Martyniuk Natalia Shcherbakova, Piano Natalia Shcherbakova Natalia Shcherbakova received her musical education at the Central Special Music School of the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow and then at the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in the class of V. Kastelsky. She is a laureate of international piano competitions in The Netherlands (1993, 1994, 1997), and in Lithuania (2004). Natalia Shcherbakova has a busy concert career in Russia and abroad with a repertoire including more than thirty concertos and a similar number of solo programmes. She has appeared as a soloist with the Adagio Chamber Music Ensemble since 2001 and has been a leading performer with the Moscow State Philarmonic Society since 2006. Get this free download from Classicsonline! Italian Oboe Concertos Vol. 1: Fiorillo Sinfonia Concertante Rondo Copy this Promotion Code NaxEK4AjAANG and go to http://www.classicsonline.com/mpkey/ioboe_main. Downloading Instructions C 1 Log on to Classicsonline. If you do not have a Classicsonline account yet, please register at http://www.classicsonline.com/UserLogIn/SignUp.aspx. M 2 Enter the Promotion Code mentioned above. 3 On the next screen, click on “Add to My Downloads”. Y K 8.570567 4 570567bk Pasculli US:570034bk Hasse 15/4/08 10:59 AM Page 2 Antonio Pasculli (1842–1924) was first staged in Paris in 1855 in its original French staged in Paris in 1835, its French libretto later translated Operatic Fantasias for Oboe and Piano version. It is set in the year 1282. In the great square in into German and into Italian. The Huguenot nobleman Palermo the occupying French soldiers vaunt their power Raoul de Nangis is in love with a girl of whose true Antonio Pasculli was among the great virtuosi of the oboe, Les martyres. The Italian Poliuto was banned in Naples and force Elena, whose brother has been killed by the identity he has no idea. He sees the girl in the garden an instrument for which he wrote music of considerable in 1838 and first performed there ten years later, after the French, to sing for them. Her patriotic song rouses the with his host, the Count de Nevers, but Marguerite de brilliance, making phenomenal demands on any composer’s death. Set in third century Armenia, Poliuto Sicilians, who attack the French, the riot quelled only by Valois has had the idea of arranging a match between performer. Born in Palermo in 1842, he embarked on a is secretly baptized by Nearco. Poliuto’s wife Paolina, the appearance of Monforte (Simon de Montfort). Elena Raoul, a Protestant, and Valentine, the daughter of a career as a performer at the age of fourteen, appearing in once betrothed to the proconsul Severo, has rejected the is greeted by Arrigo, released from prison and now offered Catholic nobleman, in order to solve some of the religious Italy, Germany and Austria. In 1860, at the age of high priest Callistene, who arouses Poliuto’s jealousy by fame if he will enter Monforte’s service, a suggestion he difficulties of France. Brought by Marguerite de Valois’ eighteen, he became professor of oboe and cor anglais at allowing him to overhear a conversation between her and refuses. Outside the city Procida, a Sicilian patriotic page to meet Valentine, Raoul rejects the match, thinking the Palermo Conservatory, where he taught until 1913. Severo. The Christian Nearco is captured and condemned leader, has returned, joined now by Arrigo, with Elena. her engaged to the Count de Nevers, an imputation His playing career, during which he also appeared with his to death, refusing to name his most recent convert. Poliuto Arrigo refuses an invitation from Monforte to a ball, and resented by her father the Count de Saint-Bris, whose brother Gaetano, a violinist, came to an end in 1884, when comes forward and is also imprisoned. In death he is is seized by the French soldiers. Procida suggests to the friends, when he is challened by Raoul, resolve to have it seemed he might be losing his sight. Pasculli played a joined by his wife Paolina, herself now embracing the French that they carry off Sicilian women, aiming, him killed. Raoul discovers that Valentine had met the boxwood oboe and an eleven-key cor anglais. new faith. Pasculli’s Fantasia on the opera Poliuto starts successfully, to rouse the anger of the Sicilians. Monforte Count de Nevers in order to break off her engagement to As a conductor from 1879 Pasculli directed the with the theme of the chorus of priests in the temple of learns that Arrigo is his son and the latter at least him. Visiting Valentine he overhears a Catholic plot to Municipal Music Corps in Palermo, insisting that his wind Jupiter that opens the second scene of the second act, in accompanies him to a grand ball, where conspirators massacre their opponents on St Bartholomew’s Day. De players should also play string instruments, thus enabling which Nearco is interrogated by Callistene and Severo, prepare to murder Monforte, presenting Arrigo with a Nevers refuses to participate in the plot and is taken the band to tackle a much wider and more adventurous and also includes Poliuto’s first act D’un’alma troppo dilemma, divided, as he now is, between loyalty to his prisoner, while Raoul rushes away to warn his friends. repertoire. The orchestra was disbanded on Pasculli’s fervida, as he prepares for baptism. newly found father and to his patriotic Sicilian associates. He takes refuge with Valentine and his servant Marcel, retirement in 1913. He outlived his three sons, the Donizetti’s La favorita was first seen in Paris in its He eventually chooses to shield his father from Procida. and all three are killed by the Count de Saint-Bris, youngest of whom was killed in the Great War. Of his six original French version in 1840. Set in Spain in the reign The conspirators are seized and imprisoned. Elena and unaware that he is killing his own daughter. Pasculli’s daughters two became harpists. of Alfonso XI of Castile the opera finds the novice Procida are to be executed, but Monforte offers pardon, Fantasia includes the second act Chœur des baigneuses, Pasculli provided himself with virtuoso oboe repertoire Ferrando seeking release from his vows, having fallen in if Arrigo will call him father, which he eventually does. Jeunes beautés and, in a very different mood, the urgent in his fantasies on themes from popular operas of his time. love with Leonora, who, although Ferrando does not know In the garden of Monforte’s palace the wedding of Elena Le danger presse of Raoul, as matters come to a head. These include Donizetti’s La favorita, Poliuto and L’elisir it, is the King’s mistress. She arranges a commiss-ion and Arrigo is to be celebrated. Procida has prepared Pasculli’s Ricordo di Napoli, Scherzo brillante, opens d’amore, Verdi’s I vespri siciliani, Un ballo in maschera for him in the army, where he distinguishes himself, another attack on the French, the signal for which, as he with a piano introduction, marked Allegro prestissimo, and Rigoletto, Bellini’s Il pirata and La sonnambula and honoured by the King, who is unaware of Ferrando’s tells Elena, will be the ringing of the church bells. She leading to a Largo theme that is increasingly elaborated. Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots. Other compositions for relationship with Leonora, revealed to him by a courtier. will not betray the plot, but seeks to frustrate it by refusing A second Neapolitan song is introduced, Allegretto and oboe include three Characteristic Studies, including Le Ordered by the Church to leave his mistress and return to to marry. Monforte, however, overrules her, the bells are Con eleganza, which is duly varied before a cadenza and Api (The Bees), a Trio Concertante for oboe, violin and his Queen, Don Alfonso obeys, and rewards the victorious rung and the massacre of the French takes place. the return of the music of the introduction. This is piano on themes from Rossini’s William Tell, his Ricordo Ferrando with the hand of Leonora. After their marriage Pasculli’s Gran Concerto on themes from the opera followed by a further variation, a final scherzando version di Napoli and a transcription of Rode’s Caprices. Other an earlier letter of confession comes to Ferrando, who includes the barcarolle at the end of Act II, Del piacer of the theme, and a conclusion, marked by a prolonged works were written for his band.