Description: Ragione Zanetti Richiedei Ferrari - Music for Mandolin [New CD] Artist: Ragione Zanetti Richiedei Ferrari Title: Music for Mandolin Condition: Format: CD Release Date: 2020 Label: Brilliant Classics UPC: 5028421960371 Genre: Classical Artists An exact contemporary of Olivier Messiaen (1908-92), Franco Margola was a Brescian musician born and bred, growing up within the culture of the city's historic industry of string-instrument making. He composed in all the major classical genres but his music has been little heard outside Italy: a situation which this engaging new collection of his chamber music should remedy. Though he composed operas and symphonies, Margola was most at home in the world of miniatures such as we find on this album. He had a ready fund of quirky, memorable melodies which spring from the neoclassical Italian idiom honed by composers of the 1920s and 30s such as Respighi and Casella. While still a student, he met Alfredo Casella, and showed him a recently composed song. Casella was impressed and asked for more, so Margola an instrumental trio which Casella proceeded to perform with his own ensemble throughout Italy and farther. These precociously mature student years are represented on this album by the Piccola Sonata for violin and piano, composed in 1929. There are three sections within it's concise five-minute span, largely elegiac in character and flavored not only with late-Romantic harmonies but the unmistakable influence of Maurice Ravel. At the other end of his life, Margola began to write for mandolin as a professor at the conservatoire in Parma. He treats the instrument like a lute, as if transcribing Renaissance dances in the style of Respighi, but the harmonies remain richly Romantic. One particular highlight is the Romanza senza parole, a song without words with an airy theme that alternates between the piano and the mandolin in a lyrical mood that naturally brings Mendelssohn and the world of Lieder to mind. Made in the composer's home city of Brescia, these recordings are led by the mandolin player Raffaelle lo Ragione, an experienced soloist in music of the Baroque and Romantic eras, with a previous Brilliant Classics album of neglected Neapolitan music to his credit, 'Serenata Napoletana'.Copyright DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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Title: Music for Mandolin
Album Name: Music for Mandolin
Type: Album
Brand: Brilliant Classics
Format: CD
Release Year: 2020
Genre: Classical Artists
Artist: Margola / Ragione / Ferrari
Record Label: Brilliant Classics, Brlt
Release Title: Music for Mandolin