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Deep and meaningful is the interpretation
which crops up from the baton of this budding but already
mature Simone Pittau, thirty-six-year-old, physically
and mentally Sardinian-born from Sanluri and with many
years of study behind him in London, the cradle of great
music of all kinds.
2001 has been his debut year as conductor of the prestigious
London Symphony Orchestra, short listed from many young
talents of the podium, by the resident conductor Maestro
Sir Colin Davis.
The renowned orchestra is getting ready to commemorate
in a glorious way the centenary of its foundation with
a series of great performances.
This very year Simone Pittau has once again conducted
the great English orchestra in the production of a record
that has brought to light the music by two important and
peculiar composers: Erich Wolfgang Korngold
and Charles Tomlinson Griffes.
The pieces "Symphonysche Serenade" by Korngold and "Roman
Sketches" by Griffes can at last resound with due pathos,
since we are talking about two pieces which have never
before been recorded.
Their record christening has taken place in London at
the legendary Abbey Road Studios in January 2004 and it
has been entirely produced by one of the most renowned
record labels.
It's a repertoire that deserves to be discovered. Looked
for and wanted by Simone Pittau in unison with the music
producer Craig
Leon, it perfectly meets the intentions of the London-based
orchestra.
As a matter of fact this year Korngold is already on the
bill of the London Symphony Orchestra with his sumptuous
"Violin Concert" under the baton of Andrè Previn
and Anne Sophie Mutter on violin.
The profound relationship which binds Simone Pittau to
the London Symphony Orchestra was surely born under a
good omen and it is destined to evolve in the most positive
way in the years to come.
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| CHARLES TOMLINSON GRIFFES
"Roman Sketches" |
| 1 The White Peacock |
6:05 |
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| 2 Nightfall |
7:40 |
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| 3 The Fountain of Acqua Paola |
3:49 |
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| 4 Clouds |
5:14 |
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| ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD
"Symphonic Serenade" |
| 5 Allegro Moderato |
10:57 |
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| 6 Intermezzo |
4:14 |
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| 7 Lento Religioso |
13:04 |
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| 8 Finale |
7:42 |
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Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920)
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WOLFGANG KORNGOLD (1897-1957) |
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One
of the first truly distinctive voices in American music,
Charles Tomlinson Griffes was hailed as a major force in
American classical music by the likes of Stokowski, Monteux,
and Prokofiev at the time of his premature death in 1920.
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| Erich
Wolfgang Korngold is most often associated with the creation
of the modern film score. Indeed, many of today’s
admirers of his music came to know of him through the
scores of his many films from the 30s and 40s. But before
arriving in Hollywood he was a well-known composer of
concert and chamber works, operas and stage works, and
an arranger and conductor, among many other musical enterprises.
Though most often compared to Mozart himself, Korngold
was, in his own right, one of the most gifted composing
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