Riccardo Muti Conducts Italian Masters (Sony Classical Masters)
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.88985465182

By Carlo Bruno, Mirella Freni, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, and Riccardo Muti. By Alfredo Casella, Alfredo Catalani, Amilcare Ponchielli, Ferruccio Busoni, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Martucci, Giuseppe Verdi, and Nino Rota. Classical. CD. Sony Music Entertainment #88985465182. Published by Sony Music Entertainment (NX.88985465182).

UPC: 889854651824.

The ever-more comprehensive Sony Classical Masters series is pleased to announce ten new releases. Ranging from symphony cycles to solo piano music, these budget-priced box sets celebrate some of the leading musicians of recent times. During Riccardo Muti's 19-year tenure as La Scala's music director, his relationship with the Filarmonica della Scala extended beyond the opera pit. The seven-CD set "Riccardo Muti conducts Italian Masters" celebrates their shared Italian heritage with a mixture of much-loved Verdi overtures, modern classics from Nino Rota ("uniformly stunning" - AllMusic Guide) and enticing works from the turn of the century by the likes of Casella, Martucci and Busoni (on an album "successful in every respect", according to Gramophone). Busoni's Turandot Suite (like the orchestral works also released here by operatic composers Ponchielli, Catalani and Puccini) is perfectly suited to an orchestra and conductor at home in both dramatic and symphonic repertoires. "How is it possible for so attractive, witty and artful a work to lay neglected for so long?" enthused Gramophone.