Nino Rota - Symphony No. 3; etc. (Gianandrea Noseda)

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Composer: Nino Rota

1. Concerto soirée: I. Valzer-Fantasia. Tempo di valzer tranquillo
2. Concerto soirée: II. Ballo figurato. Allegretto calmo, con spirito
3. Concerto soirée: III. Romanza. Andante malinconico
4. Concerto soirée: IV. Quadriglia. Allegro con spirito
5. Concerto soirée: V. Can-can. Animatissimo
6. Divertimento concertante: I. Allegro. Allegro maestoso
7. Divertimento concertante: II. Marcia. Alla marcia, allegramente
8. Divertimento concertante: III. Aria. Andante
9. Divertimento concertante: IV. Finale. Allegro marcato
10. Symphony No. 3 in C major: I. Allegro
11. Symphony No. 3 in C major: II. Adagio con moto
12. Symphony No. 3 in C major: III. Scherzo. Allegretto mosso
13. Symphony No. 3 in C major: IV. Vivace con spirito

Filarmonica '900 del Teatro Regio di Torino
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor

Date: 2011
Label: Chandos
https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%2010669

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Review

Chandos’s latest Rota anthology serves up a cornucopia of delights

If you only know the music of Nino Rota from his masterly contributions to a whole string of classic movies (among them Fellini’s La strada, La dolce vita and 8, Visconti’s The Leopard and Coppola’s The Godfather), then Chandos’s ongoing exlporation of his concert works may well come as something of a revelation. The Concerto soirée for piano and orchestra, completed in 1961 and first performed in September of the following year with the composer himself as soloist, comprises a wonderfully entertaining sequence of five dance movements, all couched in a gratifyingly approachable, tuneful idiom and containing two actual quotations from Rota’s scores for La strada and 8 in the ravishing central “Romanza” and perky concluding “Can-can” respectively. Written between 1968 and 1973, the Divertimento concertante (effectively a concerto for double bass and orchestra) proves another readily assimilable and rewarding offering, the solo instrument’s nonchalant acrobatics never failing to raise a grin. At the same time, there’s no missing the depth of feeling underpinning the slow-movement “Aria”, whose songful main theme eventually blossoms to gorgeous effect (beam to 4'22" to hear what I mean).

Best of all, however, is the Third Symphony (1956‑57), an immaculately crafted four-movement essay in the form with not one wasted note throughout its 18-minute duration, and (once again) boasting a slow movement of genuinely touching eloquence. It’s a captivating score which I’ve already replayed a number of times and surely merits programming as a refreshing alternative to, say, Prokofiev’s indestructible Classical Symphony, whose elegant demeanour
and freewheeling spirit it perhaps most closely resembles.

Gianandrea Noseda secures a highly sympathetic set of performances, his Turin forces responding in consistently heartwarming and agreeably spick-and-span fashion. Both soloists, too, acquit themselves with distinction, and the sound has the natural presence, bloom and transparency we have come to expect from Chandos. Cordially recommended.

-- Andrew Achenbach, Gramophone

More reviews:
BBC Music Magazine  PERFORMANCE: **** / SOUND: ****
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2011/June11/Rota_sy3_CHAN10669.htm
https://www.allmusic.com/album/nino-rota-symphony-no-3-divertimento-concertante-concerto-soir%C3%A9e-mw0002141471

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Giovanni "Nino" Rota (3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores. During his long career Rota was an extraordinarily prolific composer, especially of music for the cinema. He wrote more than 150 scores for Italian and international productions from the 1930s until his death in 1979, and was awarded the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II (1974). Alongside this great body of film work, he composed ten operas, five ballets and dozens of other orchestral, choral and chamber works, the best known being his string concerto.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nino_Rota

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Gianandrea Noseda (born 23 April 1964) is an Italian conductor. He studied piano, composition and conducting in Milan and furthered his conducting studies with Donato Renzetti, Myung-Whun Chung and Valery Gergiev. Noseda was Principal Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic from 2002 to 2011 and now has the title of conductor laureate. In January 2016, Noseda was appointed music director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. In February, 2016, he was also appointed one of the two "principal guest conductors" of the London Symphony Orchestra.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianandrea_Noseda
http://www.gianandreanoseda.com/home_e.aspx

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