Leone Sinigaglia Œuvres pour cordes et orchestre Marzadori Zuccarini - TC861901 - Tactus

Nous n'avions pas encore d'enregistrements en cd du concerto pour violon de Leone Sinigaglia pour ce qui restera longtemps son grand succès à l'époque à partir des années 1900. Les amateurs de musique italienne symphonique et concertante seront ravis par l'équilibre entre le soliste et un orchestre où les pupitres individuels donnent souvent le change au lieu de s'affronter avec le violon, l'absence de grands élans romantiques tape à l'oreille au profit de combinaisons bien plus intérieures. C'est Dvorák, un de ses professeurs, qui donnera à Sinigaglia la passion des mélodies traditionnelles, et une grande partie de sa carrière de compositeur sera justement de collecter l'héritage traditionnel piémontais. A ranger aux côtés des compositeurs italiens qui ont voulu faire autre chose que de l'opéra à la sortie du XIXè siècle – tels Sgambati, Martucci, Ferrara, Casella, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Respighi – ont en redécouvre petit à petit les œuvres. (Nicolas Mesnier-Nature)

Leone Sinigaglia is a musician who deserves to be rediscovered. He was a Jewish composer who was born in Turin on 14 August 1868 and died there on 16 May 1944, of a syncope, in front of the military force that had come to arrest him in the Ospedale Mauriziano, where he had sought shelter from the Nazi-Fascist persecution. During the period of his education in his native town, Sinigaglia often stayed in Milan, where he struck up important friendships with Antonio Bazzini (a violinist and composer who was professor of composition from 1873 and became director of the Conservatory of Milan from 1881 onwards), and with his pupils Alfredo Catalani and Giacomo Puccini. Bazzini urges him to travel to Europe for completing his training with the great names of the era, first of all Brahms, who, however, not accepting pupils but recognizing their value, will divert him to Eusebius Mandyczewski, teacher of great fame and professor of composition at the Vienna Conservatory. From these years in Vienna comes the great masterpiece by Sinigaglia: the concert for violin and orchestra included in this prestigious live performance by the young world star Laura Marzadori, first violin of La Scala in Milan. The CD includes two pieces for cello and orchestra performed by the refined soloist Fernando Caida Greco, and the delicate orchestral piece “Regenlied”. Marco Zuccarini leads with great confidence the Città di Ferrara Orchestra in this live concert organized by the “Comitato dei grandi Maestri”.