Rota's Roundtable

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vandermolen

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July 23, 2021, 01:51:20 PM
Have been greatly enjoying this CD - especially Symphony No.1. This is quite sunny music but not superficial. I find echoes of Respighi, Braga Santos and Vaughan Williams in Symphony No.1:
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Symphonic Addict

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December 30, 2022, 06:11:46 PM
Earlier I was listening to orchestral selections from 'Il Gattopardo' from this set (Muti conducting the Filarmonica della Scala):



Gosh, how intensely impassioned this is!! It's not the first time Rota manages to impress me this way, this man was a genuinely talented composer. Those soaring melodies don't go unnoticed, it's hard not to be moved by them.

No doubts why Rota is one of the greatest Italian composers (at least I do think so).
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kyjo

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July 29, 2023, 07:46:46 PM
Recently discovered Rota's two delightful PCs in this wonderfully played and recorded disc:




The E minor concerto, subtitled Piccolo mondo antico, is a lushly Romantic score in a quasi-Rachmaninoffian vein, while the C major concerto is a more neoclassical affair with (marginally) tarter harmonies and playful rhythms. As per usual with this composer, neither work makes any pretense towards depth or complexity, and none the worse for that. Thoroughly delicious stuff!
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

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July 31, 2023, 02:06:51 PM
Quote from: kyjo on July 29, 2023, 07:46:46 PMRecently discovered Rota's two delightful PCs in this wonderfully played and recorded disc:




The E minor concerto, subtitled Piccolo mondo antico, is a lushly Romantic score in a quasi-Rachmaninoffian vein, while the C major concerto is a more neoclassical affair with (marginally) tarter harmonies and playful rhythms. As per usual with this composer, neither work makes any pretense towards depth or complexity, and none the worse for that. Thoroughly delicious stuff!

Good stuff, Kyle! Count me as another fan of his several concertos. The first two symphonies and the Sinfonia sopra una canzone d'amore contain great material as well. The 3rd is a let-down, I don't know what happened to him when composed it, it doesn't sound that inspired.
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atardecer

#24
July 31, 2023, 05:15:29 PM
Thanks for the listening recommendations of Rota.

Found this spirited performance of the Piano Concerto in C major:


And then this recording of the composer himself playing some of his preludes live in Rome 1965:


Very nice music.
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