Neglected Masterworks vol.12.2 - Hommage à l'Italie (Postcards from Italie) - d'Indy _ Gounod _ Godard _ Elgar

several foreign composers dedicated to Italy some of their orchestral works (Berlioz: Harold en Italie - Mendelssohn: Italian Symphony - Tchaicovsky: Capriccio Italien, Stravinsky: Italian Suite etc...) 

in these collections I picked up many of lesser-known ones...

RELATED TOPICS: Strauss - Aus Italien, Op.16

Hommage-vol.12.1:http://ariaclassicacompilations.blogspot.it/2013/05/neglected-masterworks-vol121-hommage_3187.html

Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931)

Symphonie en la mineur "Italienne" (1870-72)
track01: Rome. Andante maestoso; Allegro ma non troppo
track02: Florence. Allegro vivace
track03: Venice. Andante, sans lenteur
track04: Naples. Saltarelle: Allegro ma non troppo

Orchestre de Bretagne
conductor: Lionel Bringuier
Timpani 2007

Charles Gounod (1818-1893)

track05: Saltarello (1871)

CSR Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava)

conductor: Ondrej Lenard

Naxos 1989

Benjamin Godard (1849-1895)

Scènes Italiennes, Op.126 (1891)

track06: Serenade Florentine

track07: Sicilienne

track08: Tarantelle

CSR Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava)

conductor: Ondrej Lenard

Naxos 1989

Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

track09: In the South (Alassio), Op.50 (1903-04)

London Philarmonic Orchestra

conductor: Adrian Boult

EMI 1972/1988

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