New interesting titles from Brilliant Classics

[adriano]

Some forthcoming/ new issues:

Giulio Briccialdi
https://www.brilliantclassics.com/articles/b/briccialdi-flute-concertos/

José Arriola
https://www.brilliantclassics.com/articles/j/jos%C3%A9-arriola-orchestral-music/

Wilhelm Kempff
https://www.brilliantclassics.com/articles/k/kempff-chamber-music/

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
https://www.brilliantclassics.com/articles/c/castelnuovo-tedesco-music-for-violin-and-piano/

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
https://www.brilliantclassics.com/articles/w/wolf-ferrari-the-two-piano-trios/

[Alan Howe]

Thanks. The Arriola is beyond our remit, I'm afraid - as is a lot of the Castelnuovo-Tedesco. But I thoroughly recommend investigation of the Kempff CD...

[M. Yaskovsky]

When can we expect the Brun symphonies box hadrianus?

[adriano]

The Brilliant Brun Box will be issued April 1st, 2019 :-)

For more info on this composer, there is a special Brun chapter in my website, with all recorded works explained ("introductions to his works"), plus a biography, photos and various other articles

http://www.adrianomusic.com/styled-10/styled-13/index.html

[Alan Howe]

Here's a really good place to start:
http://www.adrianomusic.com/resources/Intoductions-to-his-works.pdf

[adriano]

Thanks very much, Alan!
Actually one should read the "Afterword" on page 58 first...

[semloh]

The Wolf-Ferrari trios are beautiful, lush, melodious works, and the performances on my Nuova Era CD seem excellent. It will be interesting to read in due course how they are thought to stack up against the new Brilliant CD. Always good to have more Wolf-Ferrari, though!

[adriano]

Yes, semloh, I like this Nuova Era CD too!
A disappointment is Wolf-Ferrari's sacred mystery"Talitha Kumi" on that recent Naxos CD. But this is just my personal opinion...

[eschiss1]

Hadn't even heard of that one. Looking forward to hearing his Dante-inspired Vita Nuova though of which I recall reading an intriguing review... (or am I thinking of one of the several others including Hubay who wrote works setting or inspired by that text)...

[adriano]

His "Vita Nuova" is a masterwork. The old Koch-Schwann recording is good - but a new recording would always be welcome... Incidentally, this work was performed twice in Berne, Switzerland, by Fritz Brun: in 1924 (Swiss premiere) and in 1930, the first in Berne's cathedral, the second in the concert-hall.

[Gareth Vaughan]

La Vita Nuova is a truly marvellous work. I have the Koch-Schwann recording. Is a more modern one in the offing? That would be exciting.

[adriano]

Nothing heard so far. Suppose Maestro Haider wants do record this cantata too, since he once mentioned his intention of recording all of WF's works... Perhaps he continues on various labels, where he already did the Violin concerto, the Suite Veneziana, "I gioielli della Madonna" (a new cpo recording is overdue!!) and "Il segreto di Susanna" (which was promoted in 2006 as a great discovery - although Gardelli's Decca recording was done in 1976 already and the one conducted by Pritchard in 1990. The latest version is Vasily Petrenko's (2010). At present I cannot remember earlier recrding that the Decca one...

[Ebubu]

"I gioielli della Madonna" (a new cpo recording is overdue!!)"

The recording done in Freiburg (the german version "Der Schmuck der Madonna") last season or season before, should be issued anytime soon I suppose. And on CPO, as Naxos just issued the Haider version.

While we're talking about Wolf-Ferrari, there's a new recording of I Quatro Rusteghi out...

[adriano]

Yeah, we discussed this Naxos version earlier on. I was a bit disappointed for various reasons...

The new "Quattro Rusteghi" CD from Liverpool (it was recorded in 2012) could be well-done by Vasily Petrenko, At last, there are many Italian-speaking singers doing it. But I warn you: it's sung in Venetian dialect, which is quite another world...
http://rubiconclassics.com/release/i-quattro-rusteghi/

Still, the Agora recording of this opera (made in1993) is quite exciting any may sound more "authentic" (cond. Callegari).
https://www.amazon.de/I-quatro-Rusteghi-Ermanno-Wolf-Ferrari/dp/B0000287QU
(Firts stereo recording)

But there is also (cond., Gracis, from Torino):
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ermanno-Wolf-Ferrari-Quattro-Rusteghi/dp/B000028DQ1/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1537694488&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=quatro+rusteghi+barbieri+gala
or:
https://www.ebay.ch/sch/i.html?_pgn=1&LH_PrefLoc=2&isRefine=false&_nkw=wolf-ferrari%20i%20quartro%20rusteghi

For me, the very best and most authentic recordings is (cond. Simonetto):
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wolf-Ferrari-I-Quatro-Rusteghi-Ermanno/dp/B00005Q4R1

Extremely difficult music, this for the singers, the players - and for the conductor! Above all, there is a nightmarish ensemble which, in live performances, very seldomly results without mistakes.