David Wyn Lloyd / Bernardo Santos EDVARD GRIEG Complete Violin Sonatas

 

COMPLETE VIOLIN SONATAS

Mario Hossen / Piero Barbareschi / Liliana Kehayova GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Complete Violin Sonatas Op. 1

VIOLIN SONATAS Op. 1

Antipodes Duo DANCES & DREAMS

DANCES & DREAMS

Hemisphaeria Trio / Andrea Oliva SONGS OF NATURE AND FAREWELL

SONGS OF NATURE AND FAREWELL

Metis Piano Duo ENSUITE

                                   FAURÉ - DEBUSSY - RACHMANINOFF - BARBER

Eliana Grasso FRÉDÉRIC CHOIN Lettres sur la danse

                                                          LETTRES SUR LA DANSE

Yulia Berinskaya / I Musici di Parma / Stefano Ligoratti THE VOICE OF VIOLIN

The center of this album is not only the “song” of the violin but also its “voice”. The violin becomes the vehicle for a talking expression so strongly rooted in the Yiddish culture that when the Jews want to congratulate a violinist they say “You speak the violin well”. Violinitistically growth on the shape of his father Sergei Berinsky, important Muscovite composer of a Yiddish family, Yulia Berinskaya in this anthology is looking for the archaic origins of the music itself (song and dance), declining them according to her personal violinistic Voice, a sort of alter ego of the soprano. Furthermore, the peculiarity of this project is the fact that new transcriptions have been properly made for violin and chamber orchestra by Giovanni Dettori (Falla, Bloch, Piazzolla) and Stefano Ligoratti (Stravinsky).

Le Gentil Dame DIVERTIMENTI PER CAMERA

The Duo Le Gentil Dame was born thanks to the fortuitous meeting of the two musicians in Palermo (Sicily, South Italy) in 2006, with the intent to study classical chamber music written specifically for mandolin and cello by European composers of the eighteenth Century (Leone, Gervasio, Boni, Riggieri, Hoffmann, Denis and many others). The Duo started soon a tour all around Italy for important institutions. Camilla Finardi graduated with honors in mandolin at Milan Conservatory; she is also PhD in Musicology. She won a lot of awards as best mandolin player at international mandolin competitions. She is soloist in numerous chamber music groups, also playing with ancient instruments. She recorded various compact discs. She is mandolin teacher in different music high schools in Northern Italy. Daniela Santamaura studied at Paris Conservatory. She graduated in chamber music at Palermo Conservatory. She attended a master in chamber music with Bruno Canino. She teaches cello in many schools and associations in Sicily and she also plays in several chamber music groups.

“From the second half of the 18th Century, the mandolin became a very popular musical instrument in France. The huge success obtained by the first performance of Pergolesi’ La Serva Padrona at the Académie Royale de Musique in 1752 gave rise to the Querelle des bouffons between the proponents of the traditional French opera, embodied by Jean Baptiste Lully, and the followers of the new Italian Opera buffa, like Jean Jacques Rousseau.” (Gabriele Zanetti)