Alfredo Casella - Scherzo

Alfredo Casella (1883-1947) composed his Second Symphony between 1908 and 1910 in Paris, where, as a 13-year-old, he had enrolled at the Conservatoire (his classmates included Enescu, to whom the work bears a dedication). With a duration in excess of 50 minutes, it’s a turbulent, lusciously opulent outpouring in four movements, the last of which culminates in a grandiloquent epilogue. Stylistic nods come thick and fast - Wagner, Strauss, Mahler, Rimsky-Korsakov, Scriabin, Respighi and Pizzetti - and its sprawling design unquestionably cries out for a firm hand on the structural tiller.

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Wow….Who knew? Great find! Echoes of Khatchadourian, too. BRAVO from México!

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Name of painter?

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Gustav Klimt ;-)

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