Description

ALFREDO CASELLA (TURIN, ITALY, JULY 25, 1883 —ROME, MARCH 5, 1947)

Casella studied in Paris, where he remained until 1914. After touring as a pianist he returned to Italy in 1915. In 1917 he founded the National Society of Music, soon renamed the Italian Society of Modern Music, and he also helped to revive interest in early Italian music. He also published valuable editions of the keyboard works of J. S. Bach, W. A. Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Frédéric Chopin. His early symphonies (1905–09) show some influence of Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler and his later chamber and orchestral works that of Maurice Ravel and Igor Stravinsky. He established a more personal style in the ballet La Giara (1924; The Jar) and in the orchestral works Scarlattiana (1926) and Paganiniana (1942). Other notable works were Italia for orchestra (1910), the Partita for piano and orchestra (1925), and the Missa solemnis (1944).

TRACKLIST

7266 ALBENIZ – “Ibéria” (Spain) – Book I, No. 1 Evocation

7267 DEBUSSY – Préludes, Book II, No. 6:  General Lavine – Eccentric

7327 D. SCARLATTI – Keyboard Sonatas, E; G

7357 CASELLA – “Inezie” Preludio; Serenata; Berceuse

7536 DEBUSSY – Preludes, Bk. 2, No. 7: La terrasse des audiences au clair de lune

7579 GRANADOS – Danza Española, Op. 37, No. 11, g “Zambra”

7614 RESPIGHI – The Fountains of Rome (Dawn – Valle Giulia) (w. Respighi)

7615 RESPIGHI – The Fountains of Rome (Midday – Triton; Trevi) (w. Respighi)

7616 RESPIGHI – The Fountains of Rome (Sunset – Villa Medici) (w. Respighi)