Anna Serova – Walton: Cello Concerto (Arr. for Viola & Orchestra by Anna Serova) – Roberto Molinelli: Lady Walton’s Garden (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Anna Serova – Walton: Cello Concerto (Arr. for Viola & Orchestra by Anna Serova) – Roberto Molinelli: Lady Walton’s Garden (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:15:31 minutes | 807 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos

With his distinctive blend of incisive drama and lyrical expressiveness, Sir William Walton was one of the greatest English composers of the 20th century. He and his wife Susana made their home on the Italian island of Ischia where he composed the Cello Concerto – a work he considered to be the best of his three concertos for string instruments – heard here for the first time in a stunning transcription for viola by Anna Serova. The Italian composer Roberto Molinelli pays homage to Susana’s Argentine roots and the beautiful garden she created, La Mortella, with his concerto Lady Walton’s Garden, displaying a colourful use of South American and Neapolitan instruments. William’s Rock and The Missing E are also dedicated to La Mortella. This fascinating project marks the 40th anniversary of Sir William Walton’s death, and it presents four world premiere recordings, all composed on and celebrating the island of Ischia and the Walton’s famous Giardini La Mortella, still regarded today as one of the most captivating gardens in the world.

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Valentina Danelon, Yulia Berinskaya, Anna Serova – J.S. Bach, Taneyev: Inventio (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Valentina Danelon, Yulia Berinskaya, Anna Serova – J.S. Bach, Taneyev: Inventio (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:07:18 minutes | 650 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Brilliant Classics

The pure polyphonic quality of J.S. Bach’s Inventions and Sinfonias cannot be overstated – simple yet bursting with ideas, they offer an agile introduction to late-baroque musical forms and imitative writing in general, while retaining a cantabile feel. These exquisite miniatures, transcendent of the didactic purpose to which they were relegated for too long, provide an orderly and at once concise and comprehensive survey of Bach’s soundscape. The purity and density of their musical substance, distilled in a sort of abstract and universal language, has naturally encouraged numerous arrangements from the 19th century onwards for vast array of other instruments.

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Anna Serova & Filippo Faes – Filippo Faes : Nostalghija (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Anna Serova & Filippo Faes – Filippo Faes : Nostalghija (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:19 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca/Universal Music

A unique figure on the international scene both as soloist and chamber musician, the violist Anna Serova has several compositions dedicated to her in recent years by some of the most important contemporary composers. In fact, by writing for her they have created a new genre in composition uniting the form of the concert piece with the action of an opera.

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