Italian Clarinet Suites Loved Character of Romantic Literature, to the Margherita, with Aurelio Magnani (1856-1921), One Intermezzo
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8.572399 bk ItalianClarinet_EU 20-10-2009 12:53 Pagina 5 Sergio Bosi Sergio Bosi is Principal Clarinet in the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana (FORM) and teaches at the G. Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro, where he ITALIAN graduated at the age of sixteen with the maximum of votes and distinction. He Also available was awarded the Diploma di Merito at the Siena Accademia Chigiana and has studied with internationally distinguished musicians. Triumphant in a number CLARINET SUITES of international competitions, he was Principal Clarinet in the Italian Youth Photo: Migliorini Orchestra and is active in concerts in Italy, Europe, the United States and Japan. He has given particular attention to the international promotion of Italian Alessandro Longo • Ferruccio Busoni clarinet music and in 2006 was invited to give a recital at the ClarinetFest in Atlanta. In 2009 he gave a master-class at the Vienna University of Music. He has collaborated in critically acclaimed recordings for Naxos, Bongiovanni, Antonio Scontrino • Giuseppe Frugatta Arcam Cambridge and Mondomusica-EMI. He plays Buffet-Crampon, Paris, clarinets. Sergio Bosi, Clarinet • Riccardo Bartoli, Piano Riccardo Bartoli A member of the teaching faculty of the G. Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro, where he was awarded his diploma with the maximum votes and distinction, 8.570929 8.570930 Riccardo Bartoli continued his studies with leading teachers, including Aldo Ciccolini and Sergio Fiorentino. A prize-winner in various national and international competitions as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles, he was also awarded unanimously the Diplôme Supérieur d’Exécution at the Paris A. Photo: Migliorini Cortot Ecole Normale, with the Diploma di Merito at the Siena Accademia Chigiana and laureate in Discipline della Musica at the Bologna Università degli Studi. His concert activities have brought appearances throughout Italy, In France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Norway and the United States. He has recorded, to critical acclaim, for Naxos, Bongiovanni and Arcam Cambridge. 8.570931 8.570932 8.572399 56 8.572399 8.572399 bk ItalianClarinet_EU 20-10-2009 12:53 Pagina 2 Italian Clarinet Suites loved character of Romantic literature, to the Margherita, with Aurelio Magnani (1856-1921), one Intermezzo. Chiude la Suite un solare e brillante Allegro di clarinetto e contrabbasso al Civico Istituto Musicale Alessandro Longo (1864-1945): Suite, Op. 62 • Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924): Suite, K. 88 Brahmsian Didone and Walzer, and to Gondoliera, of the best Italian clarinettists of the day. Frugatta’s con spirito, pervaso da un virtuosistico dialogo fra i due di Genova. Per la continua ricerca di svariate Antonio Scontrino (1850-1922): Sei Bozzetti • Giuseppe Frugatta (1860-1933): Suite, Op. 44 with its echoes of Debussyan sonorities, the dreaming Suite, Op. 44, was published in 1901 and was strumenti. combinazioni ritmiche e di tonalità incessantemente Speranza and the fresh and virtuosic Letizia — the dedicated to his friend, pianist and music critic Ben più nota è la carriera artistica di Ferruccio modulanti - che vanno dalla deliziosa Adelaide, omaggio Until the early years of the twentieth century, Italian con spirito features a virtuosic dialogue for the two Bozzetti can be considered among the most Annibale Ponchielli (1877-c. 1930), son of the famous Busoni (1866-1924), uno di più apprezzati pianisti e dell’autore ad una delle figure più amate dagli autori instrumental music remained very much the poor instruments. representative works of Italian late Romanticism. opera composer Amilcare (1834-1886). On compositori italiani del primo Novecento. Figlio del romantici, alle brahmsiane Didone e Walzer, relation of opera, “reduced to Cinderella status, The career of Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924), one Just as fascinating, and virtually unknown, is the publication its fame spread far and wide: at one time it clarinettista Ferdinando (1834-1909) e della pianista proseguendo con Gondoliera, ricca di richiami alle underrated and neglected by all”. Indeed in many cases, of the greatest Italian pianists and composers of the instrumental music of Giuseppe Frugatta (1860- was “even requested from far-off Denmark by Anna Weiss (1833-1909), esordì giovanissimo come sonorità di Claude Debussy (1862-1918), fino alla composers themselves turned away from it, just as early twentieth century, is much better known. A child 1933), soloist, composer and piano teacher at the Professor Nörlung of Copenhagen”. The six enfant prodige, esibendosi nei concerti dati dai suoi sognante Speranza e alle fresche sonorità virtuosistiche audiences were turning away from the concert hall, prodigy, son of the clarinettist Ferdinando Busoni Milan Conservatory (1891-1930). His works, several movements that make up this splendid suite are genitori nelle principali città italiane, austriache e di Letizia - questi Bozzetti possono essere considerati seduced by the bright lights and drama of the opera (1834-1909) and pianist Anna Weiss (1833-1909), he of which were awarded prizes, have “a sense of created from a broad emotional palette, resulting in a francesi. Per questi ultimi, poco più che dodicenne, come una delle pagine più rappresentative del tardo- house. Only in the second half of the century did the first began performing at a very early age in concerts given modernity, sweeping vistas, a steady melodic flow wide-ranging work that successfully blends the Italian scrisse alcune pregevoli composizioni per clarinetto e romanticismo italiano. tentative attempts begin to establish concert by his parents in the principal cities of Italy, Austria [and] bold harmonisation”. His Clarinet Quintet in G instrumental tradition and the late-Romantic trends of pianoforte, tra le quali ricordiamo il Solo dramatique K. Altrettanto interessante e tutta da riscoprire è la associations, such as quartet or orchestral societies, with and France. By the age of twelve he had begun minor, for example, received a prize from the turn-of-the-century Europe. 101 (Bolzano, 1879), la Sonata (1880 ca.) e la qui musica strumentale di Giuseppe Frugatta (1860-1933), the aim of reappraising home-grown instrumental music composing works for these concerts, including various International Society of London in 1899 and was then Adriano Amore presente Suite K. 88 (op. 10). Composta nel maggio- concertista, compositore e professore di pianoforte al of days gone by and disseminating contemporary pieces for clarinet and piano, such as the Solo performed at court in Rome, in the presence of Queen English translation by Susannah Howe giugno del 1878 a Vienna - probabilmente sotto la Conservatorio di Musica di Milano (1891-1930). «Con European works. As part of this resurgence of interest in dramatique, K. 101 (Bolzano, 1879), the Sonata supervisione di Karl Goldmark (1830-1915), con il spirito moderno, con ampie vedute, con un respiro pure instrumental music, a group of young composers (c.1880) and the Suite, K. 88 (Op. 10) recorded here. quale studiò per un breve periodo - quest’ultima fu melodico costante, con una ardita armonizzazione, wrote a number of excellent suites for clarinet and piano, Written in May-June 1878 in Vienna — probably Suite italiane per clarinetto e pianoforte eseguita per la prima volta a Bolzano il 31 gennaio 1879 scrisse dei brani musicali » che in più occasioni furono the suite, as musicologist Antonio Rostagno has pointed under the supervision of Karl Goldmark, with whom dal padre Ferdinando al clarinetto e dallo stesso autore al premiati. Il suo Quintetto in sol minore con clarinetto, ad out, exemplifying “that compromise between tradition Busoni studied for a short period — this work was first Alessandro Longo (1864-1945): Suite, Op. 62 • Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924): Suite, K. 88 Antonio Scontrino (1850-1922): Sei Bozzetti • Giuseppe Frugatta (1860-1933): Suite, Op. 44 pianoforte. Articolata in sei movimenti, questa Suite ci esempio, ottenne «l’unico premio dalla Società and modernity”. performed in Bolzano on 31st January 1879, with offre un variegato campionario di sonorità e virtuosismi, Internazionale di Londra nel 1899, ed eseguito poi in Alessandro Longo (1864-1945) was a highly Busoni himself at the keyboard and his father on the Fino ai primi anni del Novecento, il dominio del musicale italiana del primo Novecento. Per circa 40 anni che raggiungono vette di alto lirismo nella straordinaria Roma, a corte, alla presenza di S. M. la Regina influential and strikingly versatile figure in early clarinet. Cast in six movements, the Suite elicits a wide melodramma in Italia aveva relegato ad un ruolo professore di pianoforte al Conservatorio di Musica di Elegia centrale. Margherita» da Aurelio Magnani (1856-1921), uno dei twentieth-century Italian musical life. He taught piano range of sonorities and great virtuosity, reaching secondario la musica strumentale pura, «ridotta nelle Napoli (1897-1934), fu il primo a mettere in evidenza il Nell’ambito della cosiddetta “rinascita strumentale maggiori clarinettisti italiani dell’epoca. Al 1901 risale at the Naples Conservatory for around forty years, and lyrical heights in the extraordinary central Elegia. malinconiche condizioni di una cenerentola, mortificata repertorio clavicembalistico di Domenico Scarlatti italiana”, la figura di Antonio Scontrino (1850-1922) si la pubblicazione della Suite op. 44, dedicata all’amico played a key rôle in the rediscovery of Scarlatti’s Another key figure in the rebirth of Italian e negletta da tutti». Spesso furono gli stessi compositori (1685-1757)