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Italian Postcards: Wolf – Mozart – Borenstein – Tchaikovsky

11/20/2020, 10 Tracks, 1:06:19

Featuring

  • Cristiano Gualco
  • Paolo Andreoli
  • Simone Gramaglia
  • Giovanni Scaglione
  • Ori Kam
  • Eckart Runge
  • Quartetto di Cremona
  • Hugo Wolf
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Nimrod Borenstein
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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Compositional Technique

Nimrod Borenstein (a contemporary composer) describes his compositional technique as 'suspension,' creating tension and then releasing it, akin to free-wheeling on a bicycle.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Hugo Wolf (a composer known for art songs) adored Italy, as shown by his Italienisches Liederbuch, which was one of his final masterworks before his mental health declined.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

The Quartetto di Cremona, the string quartet on this album, received the 'Franco Buitoni Award 2019' for its contributions to promoting chamber music.

Source: Booklet

Instruments

Eckart Runge, one of the cellists on this album, plays a 1595 cello made by the brothers Hieronymus and Antonio Amati, on loan from the Merito String Instrument Trust Vienna.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

This album features the world-premiere recording of Nimrod Borenstein's (a contemporary composer) Cieli d'Italia, commissioned by the Quartetto di Cremona (the string quartet performing on this album) specifically for this collection.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Ori Kam, the violist on this album, is a professor at the University of Music in Geneva and plays a viola made in 2009 by Hiroshi Iizuka.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Wolf's Italian Serenade, his most popular instrumental work, was composed in just two days in May 1887 from ideas originally intended for an abandoned orchestral suite.

Source: Booklet

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