Scalero - Complete Music for Violin and Piano
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96160
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 3
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 9th October 2020
Contents
Works
Capricci (3) per violino solo, op.2Danze Napoletane (2), op.27
Danze Piemontesi (9)
Eine kleine Suite nach D. Scarlatti
Romance, op.4
Stucke (3), op.17
Suite im alten Stil
Variations (14) on a theme by Mozart, op.8
Variazioni (12) nach den Barucaba: Variationen von Paganini, op.15
Violin Sonata in D minor, op.12
Walzer-Capricen (3), op.16
Artists
Gran Duo ItalianoWorks
Capricci (3) per violino solo, op.2Danze Napoletane (2), op.27
Danze Piemontesi (9)
Eine kleine Suite nach D. Scarlatti
Romance, op.4
Stucke (3), op.17
Suite im alten Stil
Variations (14) on a theme by Mozart, op.8
Variazioni (12) nach den Barucaba: Variationen von Paganini, op.15
Violin Sonata in D minor, op.12
Walzer-Capricen (3), op.16
Artists
Gran Duo ItalianoAbout
Rosario Scalero began his career as a violinist, in which guise he gave the first Italian performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. Moving to Vienna in the 1890s he studied composition with Brahms’s friend Mandyczewski, and both his surroundings and his study inspired his chamber music. The D minor Sonata op.12 was dedicated to Mandyczewski’s wife Albine, and it made a huge impression on the violinist and influential educator David Mannes, who duly invited Scalero to head up the composition department of his conservatoire in New York.
In August 1919 Scalero sailed to the New World, and in 1924 he began teaching at the prestigious Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, becoming its head of theory and composition three years later. In this guise he taught the likes of Barber, Menotti and Rota, but his own music fell from view. The present issue allows us to hear for the first time the musical mind that directed the creative impulses of his students.
His violin and piano output shows that his music brought together three distinct strands of inspiration. There was his background as a virtuoso violinist, which comes to the fore in the Op.2 Capricci for solo violin and the Op.15 Variations on a theme of Paganini (not the famous one immortalised by Rachmaninov), and his native feeling for a cantabile melody, so evident in the Op.4 Romance.
Then there is his life-long allegiance to his Italian roots to be enjoyed in the sets of Danze Napoletane op.27 and the Danze Piemontesi. But equally his Viennese training yielded not only long-form structures such as the Sonata but also a trio of Waltz-Caprices op.16 and neoclassical pieces in a lighter style such as the Suite of dances ‘im alten Stil’ and Eine kleine Suite of pieces ‘after’ Scarlatti.
Between them, Mauro Tortorelli and Angela Meluso form the Gran Duo Italiano with an enterprising discography on Brilliant Classics that includes well-received collections of lesser-known, late-Romantic and neoclassical repertoire by Saint-Saëns (94848), Milhaud (95232) and Castelnuovo-Tedesco (95642). ‘The synergy of the two performers is remarkable’ (CDClassico, reviewing the Milhaud album).
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