Marina Thibeault - Viola Borealis - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Otto Klemperer - Klemperer Performs Brahms & Schubert [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/23/2007

Guitarist from Rome, Marina Tomei is among all the most active young Italian guitarists in the worldmusic scene. She began to study guitar with Bruno Battisti D'Amario, the historical guitarist of Ennio Morricone.She continued her academic studies in Florence, as a fellow at the Conservatorio di Musica Luigi Cherubini,where she studied with Maestro Francesco Cuoghi. She received her degree in guitar under the guidance ofMaestro Arturo Tallini at the Conservatory of Music Santa Cecilia in Rome. She worked in Masterclass withDusan Bogdanovich, Magnus Andersson and Ricardo Gallen among others. She was selected to attend the AspenMusic Festival and School, under the instrumental direction of Sharon Isbin, and the famous Accademia Chigiana in Siena with Oscar Ghiglia. The CD offers, with personal lyrical strength and colorful language, a fascinatingmusical journey into the compositions of twentieth-century authors.

Marina Tarasovais one of the most renowned cellists, who has garnered an international following through her numerous recordings on Alto, Musical Concepts, Divine Art, and Northern Flowers.Her newest recording showcases the cello sonatas of Russian futurist composer Nikolai Roslavets. Written during the first years of the Russian Revolution, the sonatas are unabashedly modern, eschewing traditional form in favor of brash extended harmonies and rhapsodic form, deeply influenced by the music of Scriabin. The program also includes works from the same period by fellow Russian futurist Alexander Mosolov and the then-young Gavriil Popov, as well as Scriabin's Romance for Cello and Piano - a high-intensity virtuoso romantic tour-de-force.