Sono certa in paradiso ascoltino Rota suonato da Brunello.

Please musicians and soloists, do not let Rota's concertos get lost. Please!

Some truly excellent playing by both soloist and orchestra. They make the concerto sound like it's a piece of chamber music, and you can't do much better than that. Giovanni "Nino" Rota (1911 - 1979) is known to just about everyone for his film scores, which include the first two "Godfather" movies (he won an Oscar for the score to no. 2), "War and Peace" (1956 with Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, and Mel Ferrer) and numerous scores for movies directed by Zeffifrelli, Visconti and Fellini. In many ways - composing 171 film scores - he was to European movies what Korngold and Rosza were to Hollywood - it is surprising that he found time to compose works of "pure" music. But he did, and his oeuvre is surprisingly extensive. Cellists should be pleased that Rota wrote his 2nd and 3rd cello concertos (he wrote a "no. 0" in 1925) in 1972-73, given that the first 2 Godfather movies were released in 1972 and 1974. It would seem that The Godfather struck a cello string in Rota. One of Rota's compositional habits - which came up for disapproving remarks fairly often - was his penchant for pastiches of various past styles, which quite often turned into outright quotation of his own earlier music or even others' music. However this may be considered as an homage to earlier composers. One of the most noticed examples of such incorporation is his use of the Larghetto from Dvorak's Opus 22 Serenade for Strings in E major as a theme for a character in Fellini's La Strada.His use of a motif from Mozart’s Violin Concerto in G major, K 216, with which his second concerto for cello and orchestra opens, should not be seen as a quotation but rather as a recollection gratefully acknowledged. The first bar comes direct from Mozart, though it is immediately enlarged upon with a melodic intensity typical of Rota’s themes. It was also Mozart who prompted him to avoid a move from tonic to dominant and back in the first part of the double exposition and to remain, instead, in the tonic until the soloist introduces the second subject. The learned harmonies with their French flavor and the fluid movement between tonalities lying a semitone apart are, however, Rota’s own.Rota was not a true neoclassicist. His works do, however, reveal a direct link with the classical period in music, especially with Mozart. His expressive techniques, his idiom, were those of the romantics and the composers of the early twentieth century. Even though the work of Schoenberg and his school was entirely foreign to him, there are strong hints of modal flexibility and polytonality, used with naturalness and moderation, in his works for orchestra.Certainly, the style in which Rota's 2nd Cello Concerto was written in 1973 was anathema among Boulez-Darmstadt composers (which was pretty much all of the composers in those days), which is probably why we haven't heard the concerto performed until the 2000s. Since then, it has received at least 3 CD recordings, so its stock is on the rise. If I were to program this concerto, I'd include Prokofiev's Classical Symphony or Stravinsky's Symphony in C and Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin or the Valses nobles et sentimentales - with one of the suites from Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances as a further possibility.

@andrewpetersen5272

7 жыл бұрын

Tony Villamotte I might pair it up with a Brahms Serenade or possibly Prokofiev's 7th.

@polenc7167

3 жыл бұрын

Composer's today suffer from what critic's demand: purity and consistency of style and adherence to a doctrine of the "scientific" advancement of technique.

Straordinario come sempre, suono appassionato, dolce e profondo.Magicamente virtuoso

adoro quest'uomo, in quanto violoncellista di grande grandissima abilità.

This is a delightful concerto. I think audiences would really relate to this music. Wonderful performance.

some very nice moments needs to be heard more not the same old stuff they play on the radio. Bravo Mastro!

Grazie! È un grande concerto per violoncello!

The movements: I. Allegro moderato II. Tema e variazioni: Andantino cantabile, con grazia III. Allegro vivo

Excellence of soloist and orchestra in music so truly idiomatic for the cello and orchestra.

good performance of a beautiful concerto

realmente es uno de los grandes conciertos del siglo XX

Excellent perfomance!

I love every note of this fantastic concerto!!

Bravo bravo bravo brilliance music concerto super

Nino Rota: Concerto n.º 2 per violoncello e orchestra I. Allegro moderato II. Tema e variazioni: Andantino cantabile, con grazia III. Allegro vivo Mario Brunello, Cello

Look at the head of his cello! Like a viola da gamba :)

Notável no seu todo - alguma discrepância entre o violoncelo e os metais sobretudo no 3º andamento. Mas uma peça que faz lembrar a vivacidade "séria" de Hindemith ou Honegger - sobretudo no 2º andamento, excelente. Grazzie.

Excellentissimo!

Questa e' musica!

realmente parece una hermosa SINFONIA CONCERTANTE

Géniale ❤

a castelfranco veneto abbiamo giorgione e mario brunello

¿quien es el director?

It's Gaspar Cassado, "Suite per violoncello" III intermezzo e danza finale

Does anyone know the name of the encore piece? I want to try and learn it.

Is this the Sony recording?

Please, who are the interpreters? What is the first name of Mr. Bruno? Which orchestra? Who is the conductor? I like very much the interpretation and the sound recording, who did it?

@anaaltenfelder6943

7 жыл бұрын

Mario Brunello

@anne-mariedubois5316

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot ! He is very good!

Great concerto ! Does somebody know where I can find the score ? I've spent a lot of time looking for it on the internet, and i've still no clue how i can buy it ! thanks for helping :)

Bella musica

Robin Ticciati with the "Orchestra Nazionale dell'Accadema di Santa Cecilia" (Rome's Conservatory)

@diegoelcellista

3 жыл бұрын

The Orchestra Nazionale dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia has nothing to do with Rome Conservatory. They just share the same saint name.

A good concerto, a very good soloist, but the cellopart is too quiet, the brass is much too loud!

what does he play for the encore?

3rd movement of Cassado Suite

bello

nice concerto! this theme. what is it? recently heard it in a sibelius symphony.

@nss4472

3 жыл бұрын

Nooo, I don't think so that the really great 2nd simphony has something in common with this very beautiful concerto. Just some coincidence! 😊

@lucaschabane7387

3 жыл бұрын

It is the theme from Mozart Violin concerto in G

Nino Rota n'est pratiquement jamais joué en concert. Quel dommage !

@anne-mariedubois5316

7 жыл бұрын

J'ai donné le 2e concerto de Nino Rota avec 3 orchestres différents ! Vous pouvez entendre les 2 premiers mouvements de ceux-ci sur ma chaîne, par : anne-mariedubois.com

@jean-pierrek.9819

7 жыл бұрын

Merci, j'y cours. J'espère vous entendre en France très bientôt !

@anne-mariedubois5316

7 жыл бұрын

Je serais très heureuse d'avoir l'occasion de jouer en France. Joignez-moi sur Facebook, et parlons-en !

Recording of soloist is too quiet. Such a shame to not balance the microphones better.

Non mi piace, ha l’aria della musica da film, non è un brano che trascina o commuove. Ben altro il Concerto di Wolf Ferrari!

Brunello melenso, enfatico e miagolante. Anche fastidioso. Suono striminzito. E un vibrato che commosse le nostre nonne, forse.

@antoniocoppola7644

6 жыл бұрын

condividendo il malessere non so se darti credito o attribuire il problema a una pessima microfonatura del solista.