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Album Summary
Performer
Benjamin Schmid (Violin)
Notes & Reviews:
Expedition Audio - Music that deserves to be heard
... This album of the Wolf-Ferrari violin concerto and four orchestral highlights from his operas is absolutely wonderful!... This set comes with a brief video on DVD. It is in German with English subtitles and tells the story I have outlined above. From a production standpoint, the video is not of the highest quality, but that is no matter because the story is so very captivating. Watch it first, and you'll hardly be able to wait to hear the CD ... ... read more ...
Friedrich Haider brings the music of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari back into the limelight Amidst all the turmoil of war in the years 1940 to 1943, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari composed a violin concerto in the festive key of D major. The composer's ability to distance himself artistically from what was happening in the world was often called "anachronistic" and described as "composing with blinkers on". No one knows what the composer was thinking and feeling at the time. An intense encounter with the great violinist Guila Bustabo was what inspired him to write this composition in a melodic, romantic tonal language untouched by the contemporary trends of modernity. The two artists were enchanted by each other and carried on a spiritual friendship, largely by correspondence. The composition is a declaration of love: "For Guila Bustabo in admiration" is written in the score, and her letters to him respond in kind. The first performance took place in the Munich Tonhalle in 1944. Bustabo was partnered by the Munich Philharmonic under Oswald Kabasta. Why this inspired violin concerto has since led a marginalised existence, all but completely neglected in everyday concert life, is incomprehensible. Thanks to Friedrich Haider, the German-Italian Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari has experienced something of a renaissance over the past few years. Ever since the conductor came across a score by this composer in a London second-hand bookshop, he has been fascinated by this music and become an ardent champion of the almost forgotten master.
American Record Guide, March / April 2013
The opera excerpts are also well done. Especially beautiful is the Prelude to Il Campiello, where a nebulous introduction slowly gives way to daylight via some vivid, plangent orchestration. I hope there's enough interest - and budget - to include his oratorio on Dante's Vita Nuova, the greatest work Wolf-Ferrari ever wrote and one of the most radiant choral works that ever came out of Italy.
Recording information: Auditorium Prindipe Felipe Oviedo (2009-2010).
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Works Details
Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno : Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 26 - Performer: Benjamin Schmid (Violin)
- Conductor: Friedrich Haider
- Ensemble: Oviedo Filarmonia
- Running Time: 35 min. 53 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Form: Concerto
- Written: 1946
Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno : Il campiello :: Preludio - Conductor: Friedrich Haider
- Running Time: 3 min. 52 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Form: Opera/Operetta
- Written: 02/11/1936
Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno : Le donne curiose :: Ouverture - Conductor: Friedrich Haider
- Running Time: 6 min. 48 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Form: Opera/Operetta
- Written: 11/27/1903
Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno : L'amore medico :: Ouverture - Conductor: Friedrich Haider
- Running Time: 8 min. 5 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Written: 1913
Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno : I quatro rusteghi :: Intermezzo - Conductor: Friedrich Haider
- Running Time: 3 min. 31 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Form: Opera/Operetta
- Written: 03/19/1906
Unspecified : [Bonus DVD Disc] 
