COMPANY: Naxos
ARTIST: Francesco La Vecchia
CATEGORY: CD
COMPOSER: Giovanni Sgambati

Product: 747313268672

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Giovanni Sgambati: Symphony No. 2; Sinfonia Epitalamio ('Nuptial Symphony')

Francesco La Vecchia

Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della RAI

Giovanni Sgambati, a composer admired by Wagner, was the man Busoni predicted would take Italian music ‘towards a bright new future’. Sgambati’s Symphony No. 2 is a compendium of Austro-Germanic devices whose mix of chromaticism and melodic invention is invigorating. Lost for decades, it was reconstructed by Rosalind Trübger whose performing edition is recorded here. Sinfonia epitalamio was commissioned to celebrate a royal wedding. Loosely programmatic, this beautiful work embraces the pastoral and celebratory framed in the form of a symphonic poem.