Donizetti - Aristea (Cantata) - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Various Artists - To the Field of Stars [COMPACT DISCS] date 04/01/2016

This latest disc in the Naxos series of Casella's orchestral music represents what Casella felt was his 'definitive personality'. The Introduction Aria and Toccata epitomizes his 'monumental Baroque style' of the late 1920s and early 1930s. a few years earlier his neoclassical Partita for piano and small orchestra had been a huge hit with Casella himself touring right across Europe and the USA playing the solo part. In between he at last - in his late forties - composed his first opera La donna serpent The orchestral fragments recorded here colorfully reflect the story's tragicomic twists and turns. Album Tracks 1. La Donna Serpente, Op. 50// Orchestral Fragments - Rome Symphony Orchestra 2. Introduzione, Aria E Toccata, Op. 55 - Rome Symphony Orchestra 3. Partita for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 42 - Rome Symphony Orchestra

Album Tracks 1. Ouverture 2. Air Pantomime 3. Air de Ballet 4. Orage 5. Air Pour Des Fous Gais Et Des Fous Tristes 6. Menuets I & II 7. Rigaudons I & II 8. Ouverture 9. Les Differents Caracteres de la Danse (Gracieusement, Air Tres Lent, Gavotte Lent, Menuet, Gavotte Gaie, Chaconne Vive, Loure Tres Grave, Passepiet Vif, Rigaudon Vif) 10. Sarabande Pour la Statue/Tambourin (For Et Vite) 11. Marche 12. Pantomime Niaise Et Un Peu Lente/Deuxieme Pantomime Tres Vite 13. Air Gracieux Et Gai Et Contredanse 14. Ouverture 15. Marche Pour Les Differentes Nations 16. Menuet 17. Tambourins I & II 18. Rigudons I & II 19. Entree D'iphise 20. Air Gay en Rondeau 21. Menuets I & II 22. Tambourins III & IV 23. Sommeil de Dardanus 24. Chaconne