Jorge Montilla - La Revoltosa - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Hungarian Rhapsody No.12 in C Sharp minor, S.244 2. Liebestraum No.3 in a Flat, S.541 No.3 3. 3. La Campanella 4. Consolation No.3, Lento Placido 5. No.2 Gnomenreigen 6. No. 3 in D Flat InchUn SospiroInch (Allegro Affettuoso) 7. Die Forelle, S. 564 Piano Transcription After Schubert 8. Erlkönig, S.558 No.4 Piano Transcription After Schubert's D.328 9. 5. Sonetto 104 Del Petrarca 10. 4. Les Jeux D'eau À la Villa D'este 11. Mephisto Waltz No.1, S.514

Benjamin Saunders plays the complete organ music of Georgi Mushel, an Uzbek composer and painter. The Toccata from the Uzbekistan Suite is a popular showcase of organ virtuosity, and is played in it's original version, a vibrant celebration of Soviet happiness and optimism! Album Tracks 1. Qasida to the Master Builders of Ancient Samarkand 2. On the Deserted Hills of Afrasiyab 3. The Flowering River Valley of the Zeravshan 4. In the Twilight of the Shakhi Zinda Necropolis 5. Samarkand in the Light of the Rising Sun 6. Elegy 7. In Memory of Navoi 8. Nocturne 9. Intermezzo 10. Improvisation on An Uzbek Folk Theme 11. Prelude 12. Fugue 13. Aria 14. Toccata 15. Fugue

Over the course of a long but ultimately frustrated career as a late-Romantic lyric composer, Francesco Cilea ascribed to one credo above all 'Be Italian'. In L'Arlesiana and Adriana Lecouvreur, above all, he created masterpieces of the new style of verismo which kept sung drama in Italian at the centre of wider notions of what opera means. Everything he wrote, from large-scale stage works, to chamber pieces to the salon songs and miniatures gathered here, expressed his quintessentially Italian voice and aesthetic philosophy. 'The real instrument of expression of the passions is the divine human voice,' he once remarked, 'with which no instrument can ever compete.' Thus, in complement to his career as an operatic composer, he wrote a small but exquisite collection of songs gathered here by artists with considerable experience in the field of neglected Italian art-song. This collection opens with the charming Romanza which Cilea composed at the age of 17, evidently under the spell of Bellini's Norma. The more complex harmony of 'Bionda larva' from three years later mirrors Cilea's development as a stage composer, about to launch his first opera, Gina. Every sung line here is calculated, as it was in Monteverdi's day, to heighten an appreciation of the text, and the emotions underlying it, with a madrigalian illustration which always colours and never obscures the words. There are expressions of heightened erotic passion alongside simple religious devotion - a typically Italian paradox.As interludes, David Boldrini plays four evocative miniatures, functioning essentially as songs without words. He and Lenny Lorenzani have made a previous collection of Cilea's songs, but this new Brilliant Classics album was recorded in 2023 and features a different selection of repertoire. - Francesco Cilea (1866-1950) went into history as the composer of one opera, Adrienne Lecouvreur