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Ronaldo MIRANDA (b. 1948) Piano Concerto * Concertino * • Horizontes • Variações Temporais Eduardo Monteiro, Piano * Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra Fabio Mechetti
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Ronaldo Miranda is a multi-award-winning Brazilian composer with works commissioned by leading artists and institutions. His music is regularly performed in prestigious venues in Brazil and around the world. Miranda’s Piano Concerto is an exciting virtuoso blend of atonality alongside hints of Bartók, contrasting with the flowing scales and delicate patterns found in the Concertino . The prize-winning Horizontes is a symphonic poem that tells the story of Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the New World, while Variações Temporais (Beethoven Revisitado) is an inventive set of variations on some of Beethoven’s most famous motifs and themes. Key features: • Developed in collaboration with the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, our The Music of Brazil series is part of the Brasil em Concerto project, presenting around 100 orchestral, chamber, choral and vocal works from the 19th and 20th centuries recorded by the country’s top orchestras, ensembles and artists, and selected according to their historical importance for Brazilian music. • Considered one of the great pianists on the Brazilian scene, Eduardo Monteiro gained international recognition after winning First Prize and the special jury award for Best Performance of Beethoven at the 1989 Cologne International Piano Competition in Germany. He was also a prize winner at the Dublin International Piano Competition in 1991 and at the Santander International Piano Competition in 1992. Monteiro takes a special interest in Brazilian music and his interpretations of it are today considered benchmarks of excellence by many music critics. Click to listen to Concertino for Piano and Strings: I. Allegro (enérgico) LISTEN
8.574591 Release date: 28 Mar 2025
Companion titles – Recent releases in The Music of Brazil series
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Gaetano DONIZETTI (1797–1848) Alfredo il Grande Dramma per musica in two acts (1823) Libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola (d. 1831) Critical edition by Edoardo Cavalli
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© Fondazione Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo, 2021 Gilda Fiume, Soprano • Antonino Siragusa, Tenor Lodovico Filippo Ravizza, Baritone • Adolfo Corrado, Bass Hungarian Radio Choir • Orchestra Donizetti Opera • Corrado Rovaris
The Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo continues to present early works by Donizetti that have been unjustly neglected for decades. Alfredo il Grande , a love story that explores the defeat of the invading Danish army by the victorious Britons, was first performed in 1823 and was revived in this production two centuries later. Skilfully orchestrated, it features memorable arias for the hero Alfredo, and includes a superb concluding rondo for the heroine Amalia, as well as a radiant quintet. The opera is heard here in Edoardo Cavalli’s 2021 critical edition. Gramophone called it ‘a vocally accomplished performance’ and ‘a fine revival’.
8.660576-77 Release date: 14 Mar 2025
Companion titles – Gaetano Donizetti, Composer
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