info@dynamic.it ARCHIVES 05 (2003)

GENNAIO 2003

Pietro Antonio Locatelli "L’arte del violino" (1733) Complete edition: 12 violin concertos Op. 3 with 24 caprices ad libitum. SPECIAL PRICE: 3 CDs for the price of 2. Luca Fanfoni, violin and conductor. Reale Concerto Ensemble. New Critical Edition by Albert Dunning. It was June 1733 when L’Arte del Violino, 12 concertos for solo violin, strings and basso continuo with 24 caprices for solo violin ad libitum, emerged from the printing press of the Amsterdam editor Michel Charles Le Cène. The importance of L’Arte del Violino rests in the extraordinary emancipation it created in violin technique. Locatelli’s writing, in fact, puts the violinist, who is pushed to the limits, to a difficult test. L’Arte del Violino marked a definite leap ahead from tradition; only at the beginning of the 1800s would Nicolò Paganini receive Locatelli’s legacy and create its ideal continuum with his 24 Caprices. For the present recording the new critical edition of the renowned Locatelli scholar Albert Dunning’s was used. This rigorously philological performance of these works restores the composer’s ultimate spirit, which in the past was sometimes misinterpreted or deliberately betrayed.

Nicolò PAGANINI "The Violin Concertos played on Paganini’s violin" (vol. 2) Concerto no. 3 in E Major M.s. 50, Concerto no. 5 in A Minor M.s. 78 (new orchestral score by Francesco Fiore), Massimo Quarta, soloist and conductor. Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova. First recording from the autograph manuscripts. First recording with Paganini's violin. The concertos here recorded - like those of the first volume of the series - are played on the famous Guarneri del Gesù that belonged to Paganini, currently kept in the Genoa City Hall. This 1742 instrument, which has an extraordinary sound, is very well preserved. Once again Massimo Quarta, winner in 1991 of the Paganini Competition, has proven well up to the task, mastering a violin that is as beautiful as it is difficult to play and performing in the double capacity of soloist and conductor of the Genoese Teatro Carlo Felice Orchestra. As for the Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 of Volume one, also for Nos. 3 and 5 new editions based on Paganini’s autographs were prepared. For Concerto No. 5, in particular, Dynamic commissioned from the musicologist and viola player Francesco Fiore a new orchestration, which would substitute that written by Federico Mompellio in 1959. Of this Concerto, in fact, only the part of the solo violin exists in Paganini’s own handwriting, with a guide to the orchestral tutti as well as some sporadic hints of accompaniment and indications of instrumentation. The orchestral score was probably never written by the Genoese composer. Maestro Fiore set himself two goals: the first was to write a score philologically respectful of the Paganinian stereotypes; the second was to underline the fact that the style of the mature Paganini was very closely linked to that of the most important Italian operatic composers of the day (Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini). What has emerged is a newer and fresher Paganini, a Paganini of great effect.

DINO CIANI (1941 - 1974), A TRIBUTE Special price: Box 6 CDs for the price of 3 Dino Ciani, piano (Diapason d'Or historique 1992). CD 1: BEETHOVEN: Diabelli VariaTIONs, WEBER: Sonata IN D MINOR No. 3 Op. 49. CD 2: CHOPIN: 12 Etudes Op. 10, 12 Etudes Op. 25, LISZT: Harmonies du soir. CD 3: BARTóK: Sonata (1926), Improvisations on Hungarian peasant songs Op. 20, En plein air, Suite Op. 14, SCRIABIN: Five preludes Op. 74, WEBER: Sonata in E minor No. 4. CD 4: HAYDN: Sonata in E-FLAT Major No. 52, MOZART: Fantasia K 475, Sonata K 457, SCHUMANN: Phantasie in C Major Op. 17. CD 5: BEETHOVEN: Eroica Variations, SCHUMANN: Sonata IN f sharp Op. 11, BALAKIREV: Islamey, LISZT: Chasse-neige, CHOPIN: Etude Op. 10 No. 19, Nocturne Op. 62 No. 1, SCRIABIN: Etude Op. 8 No. 11. CD 6: WEBER: Sonata IN C MAJOR No. 1 Op. 24, Sonata in A-Flat Major No. 2 Op. 39. The story of Dino Ciani unfolded in the brief span of a few years. A period rich in events, successes and hopes that everybody, friends and admirers alike, felt were soon to be realised. Memorable were the technical ease, the smoothness and elegance of Ciani’s playing. Dino Ciani left us on 27th March 1974, meeting his sad destiny on the Via Flaminia near Rome: a road accident, one of the many tragedies to which journalistic routine generally reserves just a few lines at the bottom of the page. News of Dino’s death struck a chill blow to the heart of the entire world of music, not just in Italy, at the time. Twenty-eight years have passed since that tragic accident and Dynamic has decided to dedicate Ciani this 6-CD box set at half price, containing live and studio recordings, in order to offer an authentic document of this pianist’s talent. This set was formerly published by Dynamic in 1992 as a 5CD box set. After a very few years it was sold out and no more reprinted. After many requests, Dynamic has now decided to add a 6th CD and offer once again to the public these extraordinary performances.

Giovanni Battista Sammartini "Symphonies and Overtures", Orchestra da Camera Milano Classica, Roberto Gini, violin and conductor. Giovanni Battista Sammartini’s instrumental output is largely made up of symphonies (the attested number of which is calculated as about seventy individual works) and this significant presence, together with the intense concert activity exercised by the composer leading his own orchestra, has led to his being remembered as the “father of the symphony”. In Sammartini’s time the symphony was a form still to be created and explored; this much emerges clearly from the fact that within the composer’s extensive catalogue there is no uniform label used but a variety of names including “Sonata for several obbligato instruments”, or “Overtur” or again “chamber symphony”, according to the specific features of the piece. The pieces performed on our disc by the Milano Classica Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Roberto Gini are taken from two specific periods of Sammartini’s production: the so-called “middle period” (1740-1758) and the “third period” (from 1759 until his death), according to the subdivision suggested by the two foremost Sammartini scholars.

IDIS - Istituto Discografico Italiano (Historical recordings)

Hermann Scherchen conducts BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5 in C minor Op. 67, Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat Major Op. 19. Paul Badura-Skoda, piano, Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of London, Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Studio Recordings, 1951-52. Few musicians of the early 1900s still have such an aura as Hermann Scherchen, the great Berlin composer who died in Florence in 1966. With Scherchen’s interpretative approach any work of repertoire sounded like new. And so even in these two well-known Beethoven compositions Scherchen is absolutely modern, revealing himself as one of the great protagonists of the last century. A memorable CD.

MARZO 2003

Niccolo’ Piccinni "DIDON" (world première recording) - 2 Cds. Didon (soprano): Sibongile Mngoma, Énée (tenor): Daniel Galvez-Vallejo, Yarbe (baritone): Davide Damiani, Elise (soprano): Teresa di Bari, Phénice (soprano): Angelica Girardi, Araspe/Ombra (baritone): Antonio Signorile. Coro del teatro Petruzzelli, Chorus Master: Elio Orciuolo, Orchestra del Teatro Petruzzelli, Conductor: Arnold Bosman. Didon - a tragédie lyrique with accompanied recitatives, ariosi, arias, choruses and ballets - was first staged in Fontainebleau on 16th October 1783 and met with such success that it was performed again in December at the Académie Royale de Musique in Paris. All of its parts interlock perfectly and scenes are well soldered together. Marmontel’s text sketches each character in a very clear way and provides introspection to the emotions that animate them and guide their actions. A further element used to enhance entire scenes or single actions is the orchestral one. With great dexterity the orchestra takes on a primary role in the topical, crucial moments of the story, both by adding new timbres to its ranks and by using them in an original way. After L’Americano (CDS 177/1-2), Roland (CDS 367/1-3) and Le Finte Gemelle (CDS 378/1-2) with this release in co-production with Teatro Petruzzelli Dynamic thus continues to pay tribute to the composer from Bari.

Antonio Salieri "FALSTAFF" (complete - 2 Cds). Sir John Falstaff (baritone): Pierre-Yves Pruvot, Mrs Ford (soprano): Salomé Haller, Mr Ford (tenor): Simon Edwards, Mr Slender (baritone): Nigel Smith, Mrs Slender (mezzo): Hjördis Thébault, Bardolf (baritone): Raimonds Spogis, Betty (soprano): Liliana Faraon. La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire. Les Chantres de la Chapelle, Chorus Master: Olivier Schneebeli. Salieri is a victim of legend. Everybody knows Pushkin’s dramatic poem in which the Russian poet represents the Italian composer as a talented musician but jealous of Mozart to the point of poisoning the genius who out-classes him. The success of the film Amadeus, moreover, has not helped to put Salieri in good light. What is important, however, is to understand that he was indeed a very fine musician, as appreciated in life as - unfortunately - disregarded in death. Falstaff, one of Salieri’s best works, was first staged in 1799. This opera marked, incidentally, a turning point for the European fortunes of Shakespeare. Undoubtedly the character of Sir John Falstaff had long been popular in England and his fame, in theatre, had spread also on the continent. The passage from theatre to opera, however, sanctioned an even greater success. Jean-Claude Malgoire, here at his second collaboration with Dynamic after Vivaldi’s Catone in Utica (CDS 403/1-2), conducts a cast of high-level specialists.

IDIS - Istituto Discografico Italiano (Historical recordings)

Vincenzo Bellini: "NORMA" (complete – 2CDs) Callas, Corelli, Christoff. Orchestra and chorus of Teatro Verdi di Trieste. Cond. Antonino Votto Live recording, Trieste, 19th November 1953. Three extraordinary interpreters, who would never again record Norma together, make for a sizzling performance. Maria Callas, at the height of her splendid vocal and expressive means, interprets here the most sorrowful and passionate Norma of her career. Corelli is vibrant and impetuous, full of the vigour of youth; Boris Christoff is most noble and solemn, endowed with a hieratic and imposing voice. They are expertly conducted by one of the sly old foxes of Italian opera, Antonino Votto. Not to be missed.

MAGGIO 2003

Giuseppe Tartini, The Violin Concertos Vol. 10. Concerto in A Major D96, Concerto in D Major D22*, Concerto in G Major D83, Concerto in A Major D94*, Concerto in D Major D19*, Concerto in B Flat Major D117*, Concerto in D Major D20*, Concerto in A Major D95, *First Recording. L'ARTE DELL'ARCO, on original instrument, Giovanni Guglielmo, violin and conductor. Among the great Italian 18th-century composers Giuseppe Tartini (Pirano d’Istria, 1692- Padova, 1770) is the one who most explicitly focussed his production on his own chosen instrument, the violin, neglecting, or treating as secondary, genres that in his day were very popular. 135 violin concertos and about 200 sonatas for violin and basso continuo form, in fact, the main bulk of his output. With the exception of the Concerto D 96 - which opens the present recording - all the Concertos of our 2-CD box set belong to the first period of Tartini’s career. They are works in which the virtuosity of the outer movements alternates with Tartini’s melodic creativity, which seems to unroll in an unstoppable wave of emotion and pathos. Some of these concertos are recorded for the first time, and all are 24 bit - 96 Khz recordings.

Ruggiero Ricci Hidden Treasures. Bach/ Brahms/ Ricci: Presto from the Sonata BWV 1001, Viotti: Duet for solo violin* , Rossini/ Ricci: Andante con variazioni from Tancredi*, Walton: Canzonetta e Scherzetto* Strauss/ Prihoda: Waltz from the Rosenkavalier Suk: Love song , Paganini/ Thibaud: La Chasse (Capriccio), Chopin/ Ricci: Souvenir de Paganini , Villa Lobos: O canto do cysne negro , Chopin/ Burmeister: Etude No. 2 Op. 25, Chopin/ Spalding: Waltz No. 1 Op. 70 , Müllenbach: Capriccio for solo violin, Bartók/ Urai: Burlesque, Poulenc/ Urai: Pastorale, Albeniz/ Perediaz: Rumores de la caleta, Vecsey: Motus Barbarus. *First Recordings. Ruggiero Ricci, violin, Noriko Shiozaki, piano. Transcribing becomes a real artistic and musical challenge when, instead of passing from the violin to a polyphonic instrument, such as for example the piano or the guitar, one goes the opposite way, that is to say from a polyphonic instrument to the violin. In this CD, where Ruggiero Ricci offers us a series of hidden treasures, there are many of these transcriptions. The programme includes renowned pieces like Albeniz’s Rumores de la caleta or Chopin’s Waltz Op. 70 No. 1 and Etude Op. 25 No. 2, here performed in an unexpected version for violin and piano; very rare and interesting pieces such as Giovanni Battista Viotti’s Duetto per un solo violino and Chopin’s Souvenir of Paganini, both recorded for the first time. Being such a creative violinist, Ruggiero Ricci could not have missed to appear, in this CD, also as transcriber and composer: his are the arrangement for two violins of the Presto from Bach’s First Sonata in G minor BWV 1001 for solo violin, and the Variations for violin and piano on Gioachino Rossini’s aria Di tanti palpiti, from Tancredi: an aria which - it may be remembered - served as theme also for a set of variations composed by Paganini.

Gioachino Rossini "ROBERT BRUCE" Opéra-pastiche in three acts (complete - 2CDs). WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDING Iano Tamar, soprano - Nicolas Rivenq, baritone, Simon Edwards, tenor - Inga Balabanova, soprano, Davide Cicchetti, tenor - Massimiliano Chiarolla, baritone, Bratislava Chamber Choir, Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia, Paolo Arrivabeni, conductor. After the success with critics and audiences of Ivanhoé (CDS 397/1-2), here is a new collaboration between Dynamic and the Martina Franca Festival to the publication of another Rossinian pastiche: ROBERT BRUCE, first staged at the Paris Opera in 1846. The most interesting aspect of Robert Bruce was that Rossini, having left his retreat, decided to borrow material especially from La Donna del Lago, a contradictory work to which, thanks to the additions from other scores, he seemed to give a new equilibrium and a second chance. But it would be incorrect to say that Robert Bruce is an adaptation of that opera: in it we find passages from Zelmira, Mosé, Torvaldo e Dorliska, Maometto II and Armida, skilfully put together by the composer Louis Niedermeyer. The cast of this production includes the famous Georgian soprano Iano Tamar and the French baritone Nicolas Rivenq. On the podium is Paolo Arrivabeni.

Giovanni Battista Viotti Complete violin concertos (Vol. 9). Concertos Nos. 22, 24, 28*, Franco Mezzena, violin and conductor, Symphonia Perusina. * WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDING After a long wait Dynamic publishes volume nine of the Violin concertos by Giovanni Battista Viotti, one of the greatest violin-composers of the history of music. This CD - the last but one in this very successful series - includes the famous Concerto No. 22 long awaited by the lovers of violin music, which can be considered the forefather of many 19th-century violin concertos, in particular those by Nicolò Paganini, who, as a young violinist, frequently performed Viotti’s works. The CD also features the Concerto No. 24 in B minor and the Concerto No. 28 in A minor (this in world première recording) in which the Piedmontese composer remains substantially faithful to his tested stylistic canons, never going beyond the boundaries of very measured elegance, and of lyricism that hardly ever touches on pathos.

IDIS - Istituto Discografico Italiano (Historical recordings)

David Oistrakh plays: Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov Violin Concerto in D Major op.35, All-Union Radio Orchestra, Alexander Gauk, Sheherazade op.35. Bolshoi Orchestra, Nikolay Anosov. Radio & Live recordings, 1939 & 1950. The greatness of David Oistrakh’s artistry can be appreciated in numerous studio recordings. Many of them, however, were made when the violinist was no longer at the peak of his form. Oistrakh, who had a vibrant temperament, was at his best in front of his house-audiences: in some of those memorable performances he seemed to go beyond the actual physical limits of his instrument. The extraordinary recording of Tchaikovsky’s Concerto in D Major here featured was made live at Moscow’s broadcasting station in 1939 and is perhaps the finest document of Oistrakh’s talent, at a moment when he was in possess of incredible mastery of the violin. The CD also features a wonderful 1950 recording of Sheherazade, in which the musician from Odessa gives a moving interpretation of the first violin’s part.

Dinu Lipatti: "The Chopin recordings" (1941-1950). Live, radio & studio recordings 3 Cds. Dinu Lipatti was one of the most original musical figures of the 20th century, whom only a premature death at the age of thirty-three prevented from becoming a star of the first magnitude in the firmament of international pianism. A sensitive and very reserved artist, Lipatti had not enough time to leave us a large enough number of recordings that could give a panoramic view of his artistry. This is why each one of his recordings is extremely important in order to understand his extraordinary career of interpreter. Our triple CD-set gathers, for the first time, in chronological order, all of the extant studio and live Chopin recordings of the Rumanian pianist. It is therefore an essential musical document if one wishes to appreciate Lipatti’s important and original contribution to the interpretation of the Polish composer’s masterpieces.

GIUGNO 2003

Giuseppe Verdi: "GUSTAVO III" (the uncensored version of Un Ballo in Maschera) WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDING Tomas Lind, tenor - Hillevi Martinpelto, soprano, Krister St. Hill, baritone - Susanne Resmark, mezzo, Carolina Sandgren, soprano - Jonas Landström, bass, Åke Zetterström, bass-baritone - Mats Almgren, bass. Chorus and Orchestra of the Gothenburg Opera House, Maurizio Barbacini, conductor, True lovers of opera know that Verdi’s Ballo in maschera was originally set in Stockholm, at the Court of Gustav III, King of Sweden. That first version was censured for political reasons and Verdi was forced to change names, setting and several passages of the score.  But now, on the initiative of Philip Gosset and Ilaria Narici, musicologists of Casa Ricordi, Gustavo III has been reconstructed, thanks, also, to the recent rediscovery of the drafts that Verdi wrote for Gustavo III.  Among the most relevant change there is the famous romance Eri tu of the baritone: the original E sei tu is altogether different and from a fierce and raging aria it becomes a melancholic Swedish song of popular inspiration. Gustav III is one of the noblest figures of Swedish history and the prospect of staging in a lyrical theatre the magnificence of his court and the sad story of his downfall has always been deep-felt in Sweden.  Thanks to the collaboration between the Gothenburg Opera House and Dynamic, here is one of Verdi’s greatest masterpieces as it was initially conceived; with Macbeth (CDS 194/1-2) and Simon Boccanegra (CDS 268/1-2) it contributes to the rediscovery of the composer’s origianl scores.

Giovanni Paisiello: "Le due contesse" e "il Duello comico" 3CDs WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDING. Stefania Donzelli, soprano - Daniele Zanfardino, tenor, Salvatore Cordella, tenor - Anna Lucia Alessio, soprano, Gabriele Spina, baritone - Domenico Colaianni, baritone, Antonella Rondinone, soprano - Gianfranco Cappelluti, baritone, Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia, Giuliano Carella, conductor. The “commedia per musica” Le due contesse, premièred at Rome’s Teatro Valle in the carnival season of 1776, marked the first collaboration between Giovanni Paisiello and the Roman poet Giuseppe Petrosellini, who, in 1782, would write for Paisiello also the libretto of his Barbiere di Siviglia (Dynamic CDS 417/1-2). The structure of this opera includes, beside a lively and pleasant three-part overture, twenty numbers, exactly double those of the Duello comico, a shorter and less ambitious opera not without, however, passages displaying the composer’s fine creative talent.  Both recordings are the fruit of the by now long collaboration between Dynamic and the Festival della Valle d’Itria.  On the podium is Giuliano Carella; the cast includes singers that are specialised in this type of repertoire, such as the baritone Domenico Colaianni and the soprano Stefania Donzelli.

Ruggero Leoncavallo: "La Nuit de Mai", Symphonic poem for tenor and orchestra, Gustavo Porta, tenor, Orchestra Sinfonica di Savona, Paolo Vaglieri, conductor. Composer Ruggero Leoncavallo is more renowned than known. His Pagliacci, although nowadays staged less frequently, is still in the repertoire - usually paired off with Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana - and its numerous recordings testify to its lasting popularity; but the rest of Leoncavallo’s output has long fallen into oblivion. La nuit de mai is a symphonic poem for tenor and orchestra composed in 1886 on the homonymous poem written by Alfred De Musset in the spring of 1935. This extraordinary composition, one of the most successful written by Leoncavallo during his French stay, was premièred in Paris on 3rd April 1887.  The poem by De Musset, conceived as a dialogue between the Poet and his inspiring Muse, is a very Romantic work.  The result is a work of unusual fascination, with fine melodic ideas and refined tone-colour subtleties; a work that reveals many unknown aspects of Leoncavallo, who was able to use with ease and success a typically French melodic and harmonic language.

IDIS  -  Istituto Discografico Italiano (Historical recordings)

ANDRÉS SEGOVIA: "The Baroque Repertoire (1939-1952)". De Visée, Purcell, D. Scarlatti, Froberger, A. Scarlatti, Dowland, Rameau,J.S.Bach, Haendel, Haydn. After the success of the IDIS 6381 title, dedicated to Segovia’s 1939-1947 Bach recordings, we now publish a new thematic CD of the great Spanish guitarist, featuring a series of wonderful recordings of Baroque pieces.  Here are compositions by Rameau, Purcell, Dowland, Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti, Haydn, Froberger, De Visée and Händel, as well as some beautiful works by Johann Sebastian Bach recorded by Segovia in 1952.  After a very accurate digital remastering, in many cases Segovia’s Hauser guitar is restored to its wonderful sound, often degraded by recordings of poor technical quality.

Maria Callas: "Rarities". Two mad scenes from Lucia di Lammermoor (Mexico City, 14th and 26th June 1950), Aida, Highlights (Mexico City, 3rd June 1950), Casta Diva, her first Test Recording, Torino 8th November, 1949 (*) FIRST EDITION ON CD The present CD features a world première recording: Maria Callas’s voice test of the aria Casta Diva from Bellini’s Norma that the great Greek singer recorded on 8th November 1949, on the day before the official recording of that opera, which is well-known to all the fans of Callas.  In addition to that exceptional document are some rarities, such as the two mad scenes from the Lucia di Lammermoor of Mexico City on 14th and 26th June 1952, and a some highlights from the Aida of Mexico City on 3rd June 1950.  For the extraordinary documents it contains this CD is a must for all those who collect Callas’s recordings.

LUGLIO 2003

Georges Bizet, DON PROCOPIO (Complete). Witold Zoladkiewicz, baritone - Gabriela Kaminska, soprano; Iwona Kowalkowska, soprano - Olivier Heyte, baritone; Pierre-Yves Pruvot, baritone - Wojciech Parchelm, tenor, Bogdan Sliwa, baritone. ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS OF THE WARSAW CHAMBER OPERA, Didier Talpain, conductor. See details: (Italian)(English)

Francesco Antonio Bonporti COMPLETE WORKS (Vol. 4). Inventioni Op. X, Sonate Op.VII. ACCADEMIA I FILARMONICI (on original instruments). Alberto Martini, violin - Leonardo Sapere, cello, Roberto Loreggian, harpsichord. See details: (Italian)(English)

Giovanni Bottesini Works for double bass. Special price:  4 CDs for the price of 2. Ovidiu Badila, double bass. Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano. Marco Zuccarini, conductor. See details: (Italian)(English)

IDIS  -  Istituto Discografico Italiano - (Historical recordings)

BENIAMINO GIGLI: The 1953 Naples, Rome and Milan concerts. Music by Donizetti, Bizet, Mascagni, Giordano, Halévy, Puccini, Flotow. See details: (Italian)(English)

VIctor de sabata The Polydor recordings with the Berliner Philharmoniker (1939). See details: (Italian)(English).

AUG - SEPTEMBER 2003

BOX 9 Cds - DINO CIANI REDISCOVERED: Beethoven - Complete Sonatas, Live recording, Turin, 4th October / 29th November, 1970.

3 Cds - Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791 - 1864): LES HUGUENOTS, Complete opera. Warren Mok, Desirée Rancatore, Annalisa Raspagliosi, Luca Grassi, Soon-Won Kang, Marcin Bronikowski, Sara Allegretta, Leonardo Gramegna, Nicola Sette, Domingo Stasi, Jean Vendassi, Sea-Won Lee, Volodymyr Deyneka, Annalisa Carbonara, Bratislava Chamber Choir. Orchestra Internazionale D’italia, Renato Palumbo, conductor.

1 CD - Niccolò Jommelli (1714 - 1774): L’UCCELLATRICE (The bird catcher), Intermezzo per musica. Emanuela Galli, soprano, Luciano Grassi, tenor. Orchestra Da Camera Milano Classica, Vanni Moretto,

1CD - Domenico Scarlatti: Mandolin in the capitals of Europe, D. SCARLATTI: Sonatas K91, K89, K81, G.B. GERVASIO: Sonata per camera di mandolino e basso, G. VENIER: Sonatina per mandolino ad uso della N.D. Maria Venier, R. CAPPONI: Sonata da camera n. 3, Roberto Valentini: Sonata V,

Dorina Frati, mandolin, Daniele Roi, harpsichord.

1CD - Lou Harrison: A homage (Vol.4). Air for the poet (chamber orchestra) - Concerto for organ (percussion orchestra) - May Rain (voice, piano, percussion) - Varied trio (violin, piano, percussion) - Elegy (chamber orchestra) - Fifth Simphony - (percussion quartet) - Tributes to Charon (percussion trio). Enzo Porta, violin - Pierpaolo Turetta, organ, Marina De Liso, mezzo - Adriano Ambrosini, piano

Támmittam percussion ensemble, Guido Facchin, conductor

4CD (half-price) - Giovanni Bottesini: WORKS FOR DOUBLE BASS. Ovidiu Badila, double bass, Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, Marco Zuccarini, conductor.

IDIS - Istituto Discografico Italiano (Historical recordings)

2 Cds - Vincenzo Bellini: I PURITANI, Callas, Di Stefano, Campolonghi, Ruffino, Orchestra and Choir of Palacio de Las Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Guido Picco, conductor. Live recording, Mexico City, 25th May, 1952. New Remastering.

1 CD - WILHELM FURTWÄNGLER conducts: Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor Op. 68, Schumann: Overture “Manfred”, Schubert: Overture “Rosamunde”. Berliner Philharmoniker, 1949-1953 Recordings. New Remastering.

OCTOBER 2003

4CDs PAGANINI PLAYED ON PAGANINI's VIOLIN: THE VIOLIN CONCERTOS - UNPUBLISHED ADAGIO M.S. 49 (world première). 3 audio CD, 1 multimedia CD with: the history of Paganini’s violin - audio track of the Adagio M.S. 49 - videoclip of the recording. Massimo Quarta, soloist and conductor. Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova. 4 CDs for the price of 3.

1CD Gino Marinuzzi (1882 - 1945): Sicania, Sinfonia, Preludio e Preghiera. World Prémiere Adela Gola-Rilovic, soprano, Symphony Orchestra of the Croatian Radio-Tv, Niksa Bareza, conductor.

1CD Alessandro Rolla (1757 - 1841): Concertos & Symphonies. World Prémiere. Mario Carbotta, flute, Denis Zanchetta, basset horn. ORCHESTRA DA CAMERA MILANO CLASSICA. Massimiliano Caldi, conductor.

IDIS - Istituto Discografico Italiano (Historical recordings)

3-CD (Mid-price) ARTURO TOSCANINI, THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA RECORDINGS: Schubert, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Strauss, Respighi. 1941-1942 recordings. New Remastering

1CD (Mid-price) VICTOR DE SABATA & Wiener philharmoniker: The legendary concert in Salzburg: Verdi, Berlioz, R.Strauss, Ravel. August, 1th 1953

DICEMBRE 2003

3 DDD. Antonio Vivaldi: Rosmira Fedele. Worls Prémiere recording - complete opera  , , 3CDs for the price of 2. Ensemble Baroque de Nice, Gilbert Bezzina, conductor.

1CD Gyorgy Ligeti: Works for piano, piano 4 hands and two pianos, Lucille Chung, Alessio Bax.

2CDs ATribute to Paganini (Vol. 2) 2 CDs for the price of 1, Marco Pasini, piano.

1CD Verdi, opera arias (mid-price CD). Luisa Maragliano, soprano.

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