Description

VIRGILIO RANZATO (VENICE, MAY 7, 1882 – COMO, APRIL 20, 1937)

He began his career firstly as violin player on the Conservatory in Venezia and Milan. Later he studied musical composition as well. Than he worked mostly as chamber music player or conductor. From around 1910 he worked mostly as a composer, and besides others he wrote an opera Campane di guerra (1933, Milan), and several operettas. Ranzato served as concertmaster for the La Scala Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini.

TRACKLIST

1. Adagio della suonata patetica (Beethoven) Zonophone X-67930
2. Air Savoyard (Vieuxtemps) Zonophone X-67923
3. Ave Maria (Gounod) with C. Boninsegna (vocal) Pathé 84346
4. Canzonetta (d’Ambrosio) Zonophone X-97902
5. Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni) Intermezzo Zonophone X-97900
6. Élégie (Scassera) Zonophone X-97910
7. Evening prayer Pathé 88044
8. Famous Berceuse Pathé 80674
9. Favorite Gavotte (Lully) Zonophone X-97906
10. Galopade (Ranzato) Zonophone X-97907
11. Jocelyn (Godard) Cradle song Pathé 88045
12. La leggenda Valacca (Braga) with C. Boninsegna (vocal) Pathé 84347
13. La lettre de Manon (Gillet) Zonophone X-67930
14. Loin du Bal (Gillet) Zonophone X-67928
15. Madrigale (Simonetti) Pathé 80530
16. Mattinata (Leoncavallo) Pathé 80534
17. Menuet (Boccherini) Zonophone X-67925
18. Moment Musical Op. 94 №3 (Schubert) Zonophone X-97911
19. Obertas (Wieniawski) Zonophone X-97903
20. Oglio d’album A Notte (Ranzato) Zonophone X-67929
21. Parsifal (Wagner) Charm of Good Friday (beginning) (Wagner) Pathé 88026
22. Parsifal (Wagner) Charm of Good Friday (end) Pathé 88027
23. Serenada (Pierne) Zonophone X-97901