PS Un “blogger” non è un oracolo e commette inevitabilmente errori (il minimo possibile..). Ricevo spesso “correzioni” non sempre fondamentali e non sempre precise. Così come io mi sottopongo al giudizio altrui con nome e cognome così chi vorrà avere la bontà di segnalarmi eventuali errori o imprecisioni dovrà farlo unicamente mandando un commento: a ognuno la propria responsabilità. In base alla nuova normativa chi si fosse iscritto e desidera de-iscriversi è sufficiente che mi invii un messaggio e-mail..

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“Exhumed ” from the mists the “Dorico” cello concerto, transcribed from an original for quartet by Elsa Respghi, recalls one of the three “modes” of Greek music (the other two modes are the “lydium” w the “mixolydian” this last used in a piano concert).  Obviously the link is tenuous, being in the first movement the score initially in G major and then passing during the initial piece in A major and E major. Similar leaps in tonality are found in the following movements in which there are also unusual rhythms such as 5/4, 7/4 and 7/8 (at least in the quartet version. The cello concerto – surely modified by Sollima to enhance the cello role – cannot be found in Internet). The transcription from the quartet to the version for vlc and orchestra has had three revisions that can be found in the manuscripts of the Cini Foundation in Venice. It is certainly an interesting “exhumation” that will hardly be able to be included in the repertoire of cellists despite the fact that the literature of the instrument is notoriously scarce As for Sollima he is undoubtedly a great virtuoso (as evidenced by the first encore of an author unknown to me in which all the technical difficulties of the cello are concentrated even if the “music” as such is lacking) but the excessively histrionic attitude negatively affects the musicality. From this point of view, the interpretation of the first piece of Bach’s first suite for vlc was questionable, where the excessive accentuation of the first note of the broken arpeggios led to a distortion of the rhythm of the composition in the first part. So once again an average grade for an artist who perhaps if he limited excesses could be counted among the greats of the instrument. Interesting is the piece by C. Cutuli, a young composer from Bologna, which in its intermediate part could have been the subject of the soundtrack of a colossal by de Mille while in the finale some of the rhythmic figurations closely resemble those of Respighi in his pieces of descriptive music. In the context of which there is the little-performed (and rightly so) suite “The Birds”. Here the composer draws heavily on the Baroque repertoire in which Rameau’s “La poule” has particular prominence, whose orchestral transposition constitutes one of the parts of the suite in its entirety.  A small “pastiche” that frankly adds little to Respighi’s fame. The concert ended with Ravel’s famous suite whose transposition from the original piano 4 hands is in my opinion reductive. The reading of Renzetti (a professional with a long career behind him) certainly did not contribute to enhancing the composition, especially with a too slow execution in the opening piece. A round of applause to the conservatory orchestra made up of young elements integrated with some gray-haired elements

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PS  Vorrei ringraziare tutti coloro che inseriscono commenti  ai posts utilizzando l’opzione “Lascia un commento”  (o “commenti” se ne sono già stati inseriti) prevista nella sezione sinistra (o prima del testo per schermi ridotti come i tablets) dei posts stessi affinchè tutti possano leggerli.  Il dibattito è sempre interessante per tutti…..grazie (è indispensabile lasciare nome e cognome – i commenti anonimi non saranno pubblicati)!!