Notte Di Un Nevrastenico / I Due TimidiThe 2017 edition of the Reate Festival of Italy staged two operas composed by Nino Rota (1911 1979). Mostly known for his cinema soundtracks, Rota was able to merge the great Italian operatic tradition of Rossini, Puccini and Verdi into a contemporary musical language. I due timidi is drawn from a text of Italian writer Suso Cecchi d'Amico and the libretto of La notte di un nevrastenico was written by Riccardo Bacchelli. An all star cast is featured

" she acknowledges

More records like this might even give the lie to Norman Lebrecht's gloom and doom prognostications for the 'serious' music scene

The court musicians in both orchestras were virtuosos in their own right

Anne Marie from 1918 to 1933

Organist Eric Plutz realized that a compelling single program of these masterpieces could be formed by performing them in diatonic order - one for each key: A

unreleased before

Italy by engineer Enrico Furzi and mixed in New York City by Grammy award-winning engineer John Kilgore

Vivaldi's Four Seasons taken apart and rearranged

For years it was hard to get and at collectors prices

Gruber's antique shop

which had been regarded as lost

which blends up-to-date electronic techniques with an old-fashioned gift for good tunes