{"product_id":"wolf-ferrari-belli-idillio-concertino-serenata-music-cd-5028421958750","title":"Wolf-ferrari \/ Belli - Idillio Concertino \/ Serenata - Music CD","description":"Given it's color by a pastorally evocative scoring of oboe and small orchestra, the Idillio Concertino lives up to it's name with calm and gentle cantabile writing throughout in Wolf-Ferrari's most neoclassical vein. The composer's declared idol was Mozart, and all three of these works seek to recover something of a timeless beauty which many locate in Viennese Classicism. \"When a piece of music touches our heart,\" said Wolf-Ferrari, \"we do not need to understand why it does so: indeed it is something that should not be understood, even were it possible to do so. We do not need to be botanists to perceive the beauty of a forest! In art, it is sentiment, not reason, which determines our reaction. Art does not desire an audience of initiates, a congregation of the faithful, but a pure and open heart.\" This newly recorded album is for every listener who feels likewise. The solo instrument for the Suite-Concertino is the bassoon, but the dreamy mood prevails in the long-breathed opening Nocturne, which is followed by a quick, strumming scherzo, a lovely heartfelt Canzone and a gentle concluding Andante. This pair of concertos from 1933 is complemented by one of Wolf-Ferrari's best-known instrumental works, the four-movement Serenade for Strings which dates from a full 40 years earlier, before the composer embarked on an operatic career. In this precociously mature work- written at the age of 17- Mozart is even more clearly a guiding light, as indeed he was for the composer's contemporary Busoni, who lends his name to this chamber orchestra based in the northeast of Italy.","brand":"AEC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42312415182923,"sku":"BRLT95875.2","price":18.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/7223\/1499\/files\/3679478-2414309_8460c103-611e-405c-8b19-ea4957e5c1b6.jpg?v=1775747850","url":"https:\/\/rockbandmerch.com\/products\/wolf-ferrari-belli-idillio-concertino-serenata-music-cd-5028421958750","provider":"Rock Band Merch","version":"1.0","type":"link"}