ROMANTIC SERENADES FOR STRINGS (5CD)

Romantic Serenades for Strings

CD1 58’00
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
Serenade for Strings Op.48
1. I. Pezzo in forma di sonatina: Andante non troppo – Allegro moderato 7’50
2. II. Valse: Moderato (Tempo di valse) 3’39
3. III. Elégie: Larghetto elegiaco 8’27
4. IV. Finale (Tema russo): Andante; Allegro con spirito 7’07
Ensemble Instrumental Musica Viva
Alexander Rudin cello & conductor
Antonin Dvorák 1841-1904
Serenade in E Op.22
5. Moderato 3’08
6. Tempo di valse 7’10
7. Scherzo: Vivace 6’32
8. Larghetto 6’45
9. Finale: Allegro vivace 5’44
Capella Istropolitana
Jaroslav Krcek
Recording: 6-11 May 1990, Moyzes Hall of the Slovak Philharmonic (5-9)

CD2 53’08
Vasily Kalinnikov 1866-1901
1. Serenade in G minor for strings (1891) – Andantino 9’13
Leoš Janácek 1854-1928
Idyll for string orchestra (1878)
2. Andante 4’30
3. Allegro 3’23
4. Moderato 4’10
5. Allegro 3’50
6. Adagio 7’15
7. Scherzo 3’33
8. Moderato 4’04
Edward Elgar 1857-1934
Serenade Op.20 for strings (1888-1892)
9. Allegro Piacevole 3’31
10. Larghetto 6’37
11. Allegretto 2’58
Orchestra da Camera ‘Ferruccio Busoni’
Massimo Belli director
1st violin: Gabriel Ferrari, Valentino Dentesani, Olga Zakharova, Giuseppe Carbone
2nd violin: Martina Lazzarini, Furio Belli, Giuseppe Dimaso, Verena Rojc
Viola: Giancarlo Di Vacri, Federico Furlanetto
Cello: Francesco Ferrarini, Antonino Puliafito
Contrabass: Mitsugu Harada
Recording: 2 & 3 November 2014, l’Auditorium del Collegio del Mondo Unito dell’Adriatico, Duino (TS), Italy

CD3 42’50
Niels Wilhelm Gade 1817–1890
Novellette No.1 in F Op.53 (1874)
1. I. Andantino – Allegro vivace e grazioso 6’05
2. II. Scherzo: Moderato 5’02
3. III. Andantino con moto 3’58
4. IV. Allegro vivace 3’40
Novellette No.2 in E Op.58 (1883–6)
5. I. Andante – Allegro ma non troppo 7’29
6. II. Intermezzo: Allegro moderato 4’28
7. III. Andante espressivo 5’52
8. IV. Finale: Allegro con brio 5’03
Århus Chamber Orchestra
Ove Vedsten Larsen
Recording: 1981, Ellevang Kirke, Aarhus, Denmark

CD4 74’55
Béla Bartók 1881–1945
Divertimento for string orchestra Sz113
1. I. Allegro non troppo 10’13
2. II. Molto adagio 10’29
3. III. Allegro assai 7’39
Giorgio Federico Ghedini 1892–1965
Concerto for violin and strings ‘Il belprato’
4. I. Allegro moderato e spiritoso 5’01
5. II. Andante fiorito 5’06
6. III. Rondò: Vivace con brio 2’24
7. IV. Molto adagio 3’51
8. V. Quasi presto 2’33
Nino Rota 1911–1979
Concerto for strings
9. I. Preludio: Allegro ben moderato e cantabile 4’25
10. II. Scherzo: Allegretto comodo 4’32
11. III. Aria: Andante quasi adagio 5’09
12. IV. Finale: Allegrissimo 2’59
Paul Hindemith 1895–1963
Trauermusik for viola and string orchestra
13. I. Langsam 4’54
14. II. Ruhig bewegt 0’51
15. III. Lebhaft 1’34
16. IV. Choral: ‘Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit’ 2’53
I Solisti Aquilani
Flavio Emilio Scogna conductor
Recording: 7–8 March 2015

CD5 69’16
Josef Suk 1874-1935
Serenade in E flat Op.6
1. Andante con moto 6’41
2. Allegro ma non troppo 5’47
3. Adagio 10’21
4. Allegro giocoso 7’36
Capella Istropolitana
Jaroslav Krcek
Edvard Grieg 1843-1907
Holberg Suite Op.40
5. Praeludium: Allegro vivace 2’35
6. Sarabande: Andante 3’24
7. Gavotte: Allegretto – Musette:
Poco pìu mosso 3’15
8. Air: Andante religioso 5’28
9. Rigaudon: Allegro con brio-Poco meno mosso 3’53
Oslo Camerata
Stephan Barratt-Due conductor
Ralph Vaughan Williams 1872-1958
10. Fantasia on a Theme of
Thomas Tallis 15’11
11. Fantasia on Greensleeves 4’30

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
James Judd conductor
Recording: 6-11 May 1990, Moyzes Hall of the Slovak Philharmonic (1-4); 25-28 August 2005, Lommedalen Church, Oslo, Norway (5-9); 28-30 June 2001, Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, New Zealand (10-11)