Orchestra della Fondazione Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste
Franco Margola
Ottorino Respighi
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Composer Biography
Franco Margola (1908-1992), a prolific Italian composer from Brescia, created over 800 works.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Margola's style is characterized by an innate sense of melodiousness and vibrant emotivity, distilled into precise forms, and gracefully connects past stylistic features with the present.
Album & Artwork
The album cover features "Paesaggio romantico" (Romantic Landscape), a 1944 painting by Luigi Russolo, an Italian Futurist painter and composer.
Composition History
The Concerto for cello and orchestra by Franco Margola underwent three different versions, influenced by his collaboration with the celebrated Spanish cellist Gaspar Cassadò, to whom it is dedicated.
Composition History
Ottorino Respighi's Adagio con variazioni for cello and orchestra was originally the slow movement of a cello concerto composed in his youth (1902) and dedicated to his friend, cellist Antonio Certani.
Critical Reception
Respighi's Adagio con variazioni became one of the most beloved and frequently performed pieces in the cello repertoire due to its lyrical charm.
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