The surviving second and third acts of Catone in Utica, one of Metastasio's most dramatic libretti, premiered in Verona in the spring of 1737 in a setting by Vivaldi, contain some of his finest, most mature, and most original arias, and are published here for the first time. They evince a potential dramatic intensity that makes us regret all the more the loss of the first act. Only one aria of Act I can be definitely recovered from a surviving opera, but the rest has now also been successfully reconstructed by Alessandro Ciccolini, whose intimate knowledge of Vivaldi's working methods, combined with brilliant stylistic insight won universal acclaim for his work on Vivaldi's Motezuma and Ercole sul Termodoonte. Ciccolini has also composed cadenzas and da capo variations for all the arias, published here in an appendix.A complete recording under the direction of Alan Curtis is available from Naïve Records(OP30545).Press Quotes:'[For his completion,] Alessandro Ciccolini, who, mindful that Vivaldi frequently adapted vocal music for his instrumental works and vice versa, has composed the missing passages using themes from the concertos as his starting point. His arias dovetail beautifully with Vivaldi's scheme of things...' The Guardian'Ciccolini and Curtis deserve enormous credit for transforming an incomplete obscurity into a coherent and compelling opera.'Gramophone'The opera survives incomplete, but this is a fascinating and apt reconstruction and there is some marvellous stuff here.' BBC Music Magazine / Conducteur

Création
12/05/2018 - Chassignoles, Festival La Grange aux Pianos - Camille Supéra (violoncelle), Michel Supéra (saxophone), Cyril Huvé (piano)
Commanditaire
Michel Supéra et le Festival La Grange aux Pianos
Dédicace
Michel Supéra, Camille Supéra et Cyril Huvé
Notice
Snow, Moon and Flowers est une oeuvre pour violoncelle, saxophone et piano inspirée des Cent Vues d'Edo d'Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858).
Caractéristiques du mouvement artistique ukiyo-e, ces estampes gravées dans le bois puis reproduites sur papier sont publiées au milieu du XIXè siècle. Si elles célèbrent la beauté de la nature, elles saisissent également ces instants contemplatifs et rêveurs de la vie quotidienne ; ces moments intimes où l'on peut s'émerveiller de l'immensité d'un ciel étoilé, savourer la fraîcheur de l'ombre d'un cerisier, écouter le craquement de nos pas sur la neige, ou encore flâner au bord d'une rivière et apprécier le chant des oiseaux. A une époque où l'agitation prend parfois le pas sur notre quotidien, ce sont ces images sereines et contemplatives, et le lyrisme poétique de ces paysages japonais qui m'ont attirée et inspirée pour cette oeuvre.
La pièce s'articule ainsi en dix épisodes, chacun représentant un de ces moments rares et précieux.
Snow, Moon and Flowers est dédiée aux commanditaires et créateurs : Michel Supéra, Camille Supéra et Cyril Huvé.
Under the Cherry Tree... - Suave, boisé
Starry Night under the Snow... - Hypnotique
Taken by the Falls... - Emporté - Plus lyrique - Plus calme
Night Fireworks in the city... - Vif, énergique
Peaceful river through the window... - Contemplatif, rêveur
Bird-Watching from the bridge... - Serein
Taken by the Falls... - Emporté - Plus lyrique
Dawn Clouds... - Paisible
Starry Night under the Snow... - Hypnotique
Under the Cherry Tree... - Suave, boisé / Partitions classique / Ensemble et orchestre / Conducteur / JOBERT

Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's horn concertos: the Mozart expert Henrik Wiese edits the central work genre of Viennese classicism according to the current status of international Mozart research. Mozart wrote the Horn Concerto K. 417 - like the other works of this genre as well - for his horn-playing friend Joseph Leutgeb. The jokes which the composer made at Leutgeb's expense are wellknown. For example, he called the dedicatee a 'donkey” in the autograph, and, as Henrik Wiese evidences in his preface, Mozart also occasionally enjoyed a bit of tomfoolery with the soloist in the musical text as well. Otherwise the editor's task was anything but amusing. The main source - the autograph score - is incomplete: missing are the close of Movement I as well as the entire slow middle movement. For these two sections, Wiese used a copy of the score from the archive of the publisher Johann André. The unusual circumstance that Mozart generally left the horn part almost unmarked recurs in the Concerto K. 417 and was deliberately maintained in the Urtext edition./ Répertoire / Conducteur