Fernando Previtali, Nello Santi - Italian Orchestral Music (2013)

Five composers, three LPs … an all-Italian, all-rare, 2CD compendium. Fernando Previtali’s orchestral recordings for Decca of music by Respighi, Casella, Ghedini, Petrassi and Casella were recorded in July 1956 and had a relatively short lifespan. Other than Respighi’s ‘Pines of Rome’, the remaining music was then – as it is now – largely unfamiliar to the concert-going and record-buying public. Another disc of late-19th/early-20th century orchestral music, conducted by Nello Santi, of some particularly piquant music by Wolf-Ferrari completes what is bound to be a much sought-after release.


Tracks:

CD 1

CASELLA
La giara: Symphonic Suite

OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Pini di Roma

GIORGIO FREDERICO GHEDINI
Quattro pezzi di Gerolamo Frescobaldi


CD 2

GOFREDO PETRASSI
Concerto No. 1 for Orchestra

Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Fernando Previtali

ERMANNO WOLF-FERRARI
Overtures and Intermezzi
Il segreto di Susanna
Il campiello
La dama boba
I quattro rusteghi
I gioielli della Madonna: Suite

Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Nello Santi