Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: Melodie, Op.14 No.1
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Channel: PSearPianist · 2015 · Music
Phillip Sear plays a 'verismo aria without words' from 2 Klavierstücke, Op.14 (1905) by the German-Italian composer Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Born of a German father and Italian mother, Wolf-Ferrari studied composition in Munich with Rheinberger. He made his name with a series of comic operas, which were widely performed before the First World War, but he mainly remembered for his 1911 verismo opera 'I gioielli della Madonna '(English: The Jewels of the Madonna). As well as his operas, Wolf-Ferrari wrote a fair amount of chamber music, and a violin concerto. This wonderful piano piece deserves a less generic title than 'Melodie'. It was published in 1905, when Wolf-Ferrari was living in Munich, but plays like a wordless dramatic verismo aria (rather like Puccini's 'Crysantemi'). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Played by Phillip Sear http://www.psear.co.uk (Email: [email protected] WhatsApp: http://wa.me/441444483794 ) TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pianogems
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