Coro di morti / Quattro inni sacri / Partita / Noche oscura

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GOFFREDO PETRASSI
Coro di morti / Quattro inni sacri / Partita / Noche oscura
Giorgio Berrugi (tenor) & Vasily Ladyuk (baritone) / Orchestra and Chorus, Teatro Regio, Torino, Gianandrea Noseda

[ Chandos Musica Italiana / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 20 February 2015

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This new Petrassi recording with Gianandrea Noseda and his Italian forces is part of our ongoing Italian music series. Last year's release of Salmo IX° and the Magnificat (CHAN10750) was widely praised, Gramophone stating: 'The performances by the forces of Teatro Regio, Turin, are committed and persuasive... Excellent sound makes this a thoroughly recommendable release and I hope Chandos and Noseda go on to give us more choral Petrassi, such as Coro di morti' - which indeed features on this album.

The Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino is joined in Quattro inni sacri by the internationally famous tenor Giorgio Berrugi and by the baritone Vasily Ladyuk, who is a regular guest soloist at the Bolshoi and Novaya Opera Theatres. Like the roughly contemporaneous Noche oscura and Quattro inni sacri, composed round 1950, the superb Coro di morti is one of the most extraordinary statements of the art of Petrassi at the beginning of the 1940s. It remains one of the most admired and frequently performed of his compositions. According to Cardinal Andrea Lanza, the work, composed and premiered during the Second World War, reveals a marked 'opposition in discourse... between the solitude of man and the destruction surrounding him', all of which is clearly relayed in the harrowing contrast between relaxed choral lines on the one hand and solid conglomeration of instruments on the other.

The Partita is one of the earliest works Petrassi composed, yet one of his most famous and still-performed. It achieves explosive brilliance and shows the composer's precocious and accomplished control of orchestral technique.

"Goffredo Petrassi (16 July 1904 - 3 March 2003) is not a name known to too many people nowadays, but he is widely considered one of the most influential Italian composers of the last century. Noseda and his sterling Italian forces (are) dedicated to Petrassi's music, and it is in all ways outstanding. The sound is superb and the orchestra plays brilliantly. Petrassi does not deserve the obscurity into which he has fallen; help pull him out." (AudAud.com April 2015)

"Noseda's tempos [in Noche oscura] court sluggishness on occasion, but it's a risk worth taking, and the choir responds empathetically...The impressively pugnacious Partita acts as a curtain-raiser, and the orchestra enjoys nailing down the spiky rhythms of the outer movements. Another thought-provoking, highly worthwhile Petrassi programme." (BBC Music April 2015)

Tracks:

Coro di morti
Quattro inni sacri
Partita for orchestra
Noche oscura