Montemezzi Symphony in E minor/etc.

[Alan Howe]

A twenty plus year-old recording. Does anyone know this?
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/italo-montemezzi-orchesterwerke/hnum/11942384

It's on YouTube here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlFebromR7g&list=OLAK5uy_kNcxPol1uyodV-hRFhslPGcBdL6Trzq1E&index=1

[ken]

Here are all 5 tracks from this CD on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlFebromR7g&list=OLAK5uy_kNcxPol1uyodV-hRFhslPGcBdL6Trzq1E&index=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpWyxk9b9vo&list=OLAK5uy_kNcxPol1uyodV-hRFhslPGcBdL6Trzq1E&index=2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIT78m2Es1E&list=OLAK5uy_kNcxPol1uyodV-hRFhslPGcBdL6Trzq1E&index=3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcHmWiWq2MQ&list=OLAK5uy_kNcxPol1uyodV-hRFhslPGcBdL6Trzq1E&index=4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Xz-IKTgPY&list=OLAK5uy_kNcxPol1uyodV-hRFhslPGcBdL6Trzq1E&index=5

[Mark Thomas]

It sounds like an attractive work but a very recessed recording.

[Alan Howe]

Yes, it's very odd sounding.

[terry martyn]

Mike Herman  seems to have missed this.

It sounds as if it was composed in the 1890's, but I bet it's later.   Does anyone know the date of its composition?

[eschiss1]

btw according to SBN this was originally issued on the label "Comune di Vigasio" in 2003. "Symphony in E minor: unpublished, discovered in May 2001, world premiere 9 June 2002". Which is simply wrong: it was performed in 1899. See Gazzetta musicale di Milano, vol. 1.

[Alan Howe]

I've found this somewhat oblique reference:
Sinfonia in Mi minore (inedita).Fonti e Bibl.: G. Ricordi, La nostra musica. I. M., in Musica e musicisti, LX (1905), 10, pp. 658
https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/italo-montemezzi_(Dizionario-Biografico)/

Translated, this means that the Symphony is (was?) unpublished and, presumably, dates from (or before) 1905.

[eschiss1]

appears in a biography of Montemezzi in the 1905 volume (issue 10) of that magazine?