Petrassi: Concertos for Orchestra Nos. 7 & 8, Sonata da camera Mario Stefano Tonda, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia

• Goffredo Petrassi (1904 - 2003): Concerto for Orchestra No. 7:
• 1 Petrassi: Concerto for Orchestra No. 7: Prologo - 02:59
• 2 Petrassi: Concerto for Orchestra No. 7: Primo - 03:08
• 3 Petrassi: Concerto for Orchestra No. 7: Secondo - 02:12
• 4 Petrassi: Concerto for Orchestra No. 7: Terzo - 04:53
• 5 Petrassi: Concerto for Orchestra No. 7: Quarto - 03:08
• 6 Petrassi: Concerto for Orchestra No. 7: Epilogo 04:18
• Concerto for Orchestra No. 8:
• 7 Petrassi: Concerto for Orchestra No. 8: I. Primo movimento 06:44
• 8 Petrassi: Concerto for Orchestra No. 8: II. Secondo movimento 08:00
• 9 Petrassi: Concerto for Orchestra No. 8: III. Terzo movimento 07:12
• Sonata da camera:
• 10 Petrassi: Sonata da camera: I. Mosso e scorrevole 04:18
• 11 Petrassi: Sonata da camera: II. Adagio 04:57
• 12 Petrassi: Sonata da camera: III. Vivace e grazioso 03:35
• Total Runtime 55:24

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In den frühen 1960er Jahren war Goffredo Petrassis Stil kaum von dem der italienischen Avantgarde zu unterscheiden. Das 1964 vollendete "Siebte Konzert" entwickelt sich mit zunehmender Spannung und einem unterschwelligen Gefühl der Bedrohung. Das "Achte Konzert" aus dem Jahr 1972 wurde vom Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Auftrag gegeben und uraufgeführt. Es ist ein bedeutendes Werk von unverhohlener Virtuosität, mit Dissonanzen, scharfen Dialogen und einer spannungsgeladenen Atmosphäre. Die viel früher entstandene "Sonata da camera" für Cembalo und zehn Instrumente zeigt Petrassi zwischen Neoklassizismus und einer moderneren Ausrichtung. Dies ist der dritte und letzte Teil von Petrassis vollständigen Konzerten für Orchester. Mario Stefano Tonda ist Solist am Cembalo. Francesco La Vecchia war 14 Jahre lang ständiger Dirigent und künstlerischer Leiter des von ihm gegründeten Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, das auch hier zu hören ist. Er war fünf Jahre lang erster Gastdirigent der Berliner Symphoniker. Außerdem ist er Ehrenakademiker des Konservatoriums Peking, emeritierter Professor der Universität Seoul und Botschafter der UNO und der FAO für Kultur in der Welt.

Mario Stefano Tonda, Cembalo
Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma
Francesco La Vecchia, Leitung

The Rome Symphony Orchestra
was established in 2002 by the Rome Foundation (Fondazione Roma Arte – Musei), a rare example in Europe of an orchestra that was completely privately funded. Under its artistic and musical director Francesco La Vecchia who, in turn, set up the Fondazione Arts Academy, the orchestra performed regularly in Rome at the Teatro Argentina, Teatro Sistina and Auditorium Conciliazione.

It received critical and public recognition at distinguished venues in Asia, the Americas and Europe, with notable success in 2007 at the Berlin Philharmonie. The orchestra also undertook a wide-ranging and well received series of recordings, principally for Naxos, of important compositions by Italian composers of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Busoni, Catalani, Ferrara, Ghedini, Malipiero, Mancinelli, Martucci, Mercadante, Petrassi, Sgambati and Wolf-Ferrari. Many of these are world premiere recordings.

The orchestra was dissolved in 2014 not long after giving the first modern performance of Giovanni Sgambati’s Symphony No. 2.

Francesco La Vecchia
tudied with his maternal grandfather and gave his first concert at the age of nine. At the age of 18 he became leader of the Boccherini Quartet, at 23 he founded the Arts Academy of Rome and, at the age of 27, he began his international recording career.

In 2002 he took up the position of artistic director and resident conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma. Under his leadership the orchestra rapidly achieved success in highly successful visits to St Petersburg, Madrid, Belgrade, Brussels, Rio de Janeiro, London, Athens, Berlin, Beijing and Vienna. Francesco La Vecchia has also conducted at many prestigious venues, including the Kennedy Center, Washington, Carnegie Hall, New York, the Art Center, Seoul, the São Carlos National Theatre, Lisbon and the Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto.

The ‘Maestro’ series of recordings, named after him, was first released in 1999. Since then he and the Rome Symphony Orchestra have recorded for Naxos (an important and wide-rangng series of works by 19th- and 20th-century Italian composers, including many world première recordings), Brilliant Classics (Respighi) and Sony (Beethoven). He has been the recipient of several important official awards in Italy and abroad.

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