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Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Josep Pons, Benedetto Lupo - Nino Rota: La Strada; Il Gattopardo; Concerto Soiree (2005)

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Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Josep Pons, Benedetto Lupo - Nino Rota: La Strada; Il Gattopardo; Concerto Soiree (2005)

Nino Rota: La Strada; Il Gattopardo; Concerto Soirée (2005)
Benedetto Lupo, piano; Orquesta Ciudad de Granada; Josep Pons, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 248 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 147 Mb | Scans ~ 88 Mb
Classical, Film Music | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 901864 | Time: 01:04:13

It's great to see the music of Nino Rota getting so much attention. He was a wonderful composer, and the ballet suite from La strada may be his orchestral masterpiece (just a quick note: the French language title identifies this as a suite from the eponymous film; it is in fact the more familiar arrangement of the later ballet). There are now four competitive recordings of this piece, the least interesting of which is on Chandos with the Teatro Massimo orchestra: not bad, but not as well played or recorded as either Muti's slightly stiff version with the excellent La Scala forces, or Atma's brilliant recent release featuring the Greater Montréal Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin. All of the couplings differ in various ways, though Muti also has the dances from Il gattopardo (The Leopard).

Happily, comparison of this newcomer with the reference recording of La Strada on Atma reveals an entirely different set of excellences. The previous release is a big, beefy, symphonic interpretation. This one, using the smallish Granada ensemble, reeks of the ballet, of Offenbach, of the sort of giddy lightness that always characterizes Rota at his irreverent best. You hear this right from the opening, with Pons emphasizing the music's buoyant rhythms, never letting the brass blast, and above all keeping the faux-Romantic moments flowing and unsticky. Nevertheless, he delivers a smoking account of the famous Rumba, and attacks the Stravinskian parodies in The Rage of Zampanò with gusto. Pons' fleet tempos and keen ear for orchestral detail make the music sparkle, a joy from first note to last.

The Concerto Soirée, a five-movement dance suite for piano and orchestra that opens with a Walzer-Fantasia and concludes with an effervescent Can-can, also appears on Naïve in a merely adequate performance from Ferrara simply annihilated by Benedetto Lupo and Pons in every possible way. The ballet music from Il gattopardo is, like La strada, also quite popular on disc, not least for Rota's opening orchestration of a Verdi waltz, and Pons offers as fine a performance as you will ever hope to hear. This is light music (check out the Galop and concluding Valzer del Commiato) by a master-craftsman, played to the hilt and recorded with stunning realism and fidelity. The comprehensive booklet, full of information about Rota, his film career, and the music featured on the disc (including some fabulous old movie posters and stills from La strada and Il gattopardo), is almost worth the asking price all by itself. It doesn't get any better than this.

Review by David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com

Nino Rota's ballet suite La Strada and the Dances from Il Gattopardo are frequently paired, being similar works that are related to his film scores, yet not really suites from film scores. In 1966 Rota fashioned a 12-scene ballet out of the story and music from La Strada, but also borrowed music from several other of his works. The suite in which the music from the film La Strada most frequently is heard, is actually from this ballet. The dances from Il Gattopardo were recycled from other film scores, with the addition of Rota's orchestration of a Verdi waltz for piano, and were not meant to be used as the underscore to the dramatic action of the film, but as the dances heard in a ballroom scene. Conductor Josep Pons obviously has a great sympathy for Rota's music. He has included the Concerto Soirée, a pure concert work by Rota (themes from which were also later recycled for film scores) with soloist Benedetto Lupo, with the two suites in this lavishly designed package from Harmonia Mundi. Pons and the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada give the La Strada suite a grandness that fits the ballet stage and emphasizes the tragedy of the story. The Dances are sparkling, and except for shades of Rota's humor, such as the mock serious beginning of the Mazurka theme, are thoroughly idiomatic of late-nineteenth century ballroom music. If there were any problems with the orchestra's intonation or ensemble work they would show up here, but Pons holds it to world-class standards. The Concerto Soirée is just as vibrant and full of feeling as the La Strada suite. It is by turns dreamy like Chopin, sensational like Rachmaninov, playful like Prokofiev, but always Rota, taking his turn at reinventing Romantic music. Lupo and Pons bring it to a thrilling end in the Can-can finale. The Concerto and the Dances certainly stand on their own as concert music, whereas it is hard to hear La Strada's music without imagining the story, just as it is hard to separate E.T.A. Hoffmann's The Nutcracker from Tchaikovsky's music, especially when it is performed with the intensity and meaning that Pons gives it.

Review by Patsy Morita, Allmusic.com

Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Josep Pons, Benedetto Lupo - Nino Rota: La Strada; Il Gattopardo; Concerto Soiree (2005)



Tracklist:

Suite dal balletto "La strada" (1954-66)
01. I. Nozze in campagna. "È arrivato Zampanò" [3:35]
02. II. I tre suonatori e il "Matto" sul filo [5:44]
03. III. Il Circo (Il numero de Zampanò - I giocolieri - Il violino del "Matto") [4:20]
04. IV. La rabbia di Zampanò [4:22]
05. V. Zampanò uccide il "Matto". Gelsomina impazzisce di dolore [2:23]
06. VI. L'ultimo spettacolo sulla neve "Addio Gelsomina" [4:32]
07. VII. Solitudine e pianto di Zampanò [3:15]

Concerto Soirée pour piano et orchestre (1962)
08. I. Walzer-Fantasia. Tempo di walzer tranquillo [5:34]
09. II. Ballo figurato. Allegro calmo, con spirito [3:14]
10. III. Romanza. Andante malinconico [4:28]
11. IV. Quadriglia. Allegro con spirito [3:59]
12. V. Can-can. Animatissimo [3:26]

Ballabili per il film "Il gattopardo" (1963)
13. Valzer Verdi (orch. Nino Rota) [1:54]
14. Mazurka [1:50]
15. Balletto. Allegro sostenuto [2:26]
16. Polka [1:31]
17. Quadriglia. Allegro [1:46]
18. Galop. Allegro molto [1:32]
19. Valzer del Commiato [4:11]


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Analyzed: Rota, Nino / La strada • Il gattopardo • Concerto Soirée - Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Josep Pons
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Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Josep Pons, Benedetto Lupo - Nino Rota: La Strada; Il Gattopardo; Concerto Soiree (2005)

Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Josep Pons, Benedetto Lupo - Nino Rota: La Strada; Il Gattopardo; Concerto Soiree (2005)

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