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All' Opera: Profumo Di Violetta [CD]

Gianluigi Trovesi | Format: Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (31 Dec 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: ECM
  • ASIN: B001CWOCUE
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 217,615 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1. Il Prologo: Alba
2. Il Mito: Toccata
3. Musa
4. Euridice
5. Ninfe avernali
6. Ritornello
7. Frammenti orfici
8. Il Ballo: Intrecciar Ciaccone
9. Il Gioco Delle Seduzioni: "Pur ti miro"
10. "Stizzoso, mio stizzoso"
11. Vespone
12. L'innamoramento: Profumo di Violetta - Part I
13. "Ah, fors'e lui che l'anima"
14. Profumo di Violetta - Part II
15. Violetta e le altre
16. Il Saltellar Gioioso: "È Piquillo, un bel gagliardo"
17. Salterellando
18. Antico Saltarello
19. Salterello Amoroso
20. "Largo al factotum"
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Italy's great musical archaeologist and one of today's outstanding improvisers, Gianluigi Trovesi indulges his love for the drama and beauty of Italian opera with 'Trovesi all'opera - Profumo di Violetta'. Accompanied by a fantastic "banda", the large wind orchestra with percussion heard in the on-stage-music of many operas by Donizetti and Verdi, the reedman takes us on a humorous journey through the history of the genre, enriched with light and playful improvisation.

Both titles carry double meanings: the Italian expression for "Trovesi at the opera" is equivocal with "Trovesi at work", while "Profumo di Violetta" simultaneously alludes to the protagonist of Verdi's "La Traviata" and to the flower's sweet perfume - while more religious and erotic associations linger in the background.

The importance of the Banda in Italian provincial society can hardly be overstated. These orchestras which played at all major civic and religious celebrations served as melting pot for the social classes. Traditional Banda repertoire, consisting of popular marches, waltzes, Neapolitan songs and - most important - operatic tunes served as a kind of cultural memory that handed on popular musical treasures from generation to generation.

Trovesi grew up listening to his local village banda near Bergamo and it inspired him to take up the clarinet as a boy. Like most Bandas today, Filarmonica Mousiké have shifted their focus to original contemporary compositions, so developing into a concert orchestra. It was Trovesi's idea to revisit Italian opera from an unconventional angle, juxtaposing famous and lesser known tunes and including orchestral excerpts that enhance the symphonic design. In Trovesi's ingenious work the popular and the sublime, irony and unrestrained pathos meet with an improvisational spirit conveying the pure joy of music making.

Personnel:
Gianluigi Trovesi - (piccolo clarinet, contra-alto clarinet, alto saxophone), Marco Remondini - (cello, electronics), Stefano Bertoli - (drums, percussion), Filarmonica Mousiké - (winds, percussion), Savino Acquaviva - (conductor)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very enjoyable opera-inspired jazz work 14 Nov 2009
By A. Zona TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:Audio CD
Opera is the inspiration for this very enjoyable jazz work, full of musical ideas and joyful playing from a large wind ensemble directed by conductor Savino Acquaviva, with the clarinet and saxophone of Gianluigi Trovesi always easy to spot. Beautiful reflective moments, crescendos and great interplay are among the key points to discover again and again. Just make sure to give it the listening time it deserves: for me this is the kind of CD that the more you listen, the more you discover, the more you like. Sound quality is extremely high as you'd expect from ECM.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A very nice mix between Italian opera and Jazz music 21 Mar 2009
By Meidad Zaharia - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
While it's not really something you treat more than curiosity project it really have something there. The combination between opera instrumental music and Trovesi's Jazz improvisations if fantastic. I enjoy this CD very much and remember, it's an ECM production which always got very good productions!

I recommend this CD to lovers of both Jazz and Classical music.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Un unortodox approach to opera 19 Dec 2010
By Edgar Sanilevich - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD
I had great expectations from this album. I love both opera and jazz and I like some of G. Troves's releases very much.
I love what Jaques Loussier did with Bach's music,what Steve Kuhn's did in "Pavane for a dead princess" or what Branford Marsalis did in "Romances for saxophone", but this time the magic formula(classic+jazz)doesn't work for me.
Trovesi has composed some very accessible works but let's not forget he's an avant-garde artist and his treatment of opera from Monteverdi to Pucini is more in the spirit of avant-garde and improvisation , which is not a bad thing in itself but it might not appeal to everyone.So, if you're not familiar with Trovesi's work, check some samples before you buy.
In my opinion this CD can appeal to Trovesi's fans who like also opera/classical music,I am not so sure how much opera fans will apreciate it.
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