Alfredo Casella's early training at the Paris Conservatoire and exposure to French impressionism was a formative experience, despite being born in Italy.
Performer Biography
Martin Roscoe, the pianist on this recording, is a versatile performer with a repertoire of over a hundred concertos and has appeared in over ninety performances with eminent conductors.
Compositional Technique
Casella likely chose the concerto for orchestra form to avoid symphonic conventions, despite disliking the term 'neoclassicism' often applied to his style.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Casella's musical development paralleled major movements in 20th-century music, moving from late-romanticism to experimentation, including atonality, but not serialism.
Recording & Production
This Chandos recording uses 24-bit / 96 kHz technology, which offers a dynamic range up to 48 dB greater and 256 times the resolution of standard 16-bit recordings.
Composition History
The Concerto for Orchestra, Op. 61, was completed in Rome in 1937 and dedicated to Willem Mengelberg and the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam for their 50th anniversary.
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