Hi Res Download, Wolf-Ferrari (composer)

From The Jewels of the Madonna to Il campiello, Wolf-Ferrari was up there with his Italian contemporaries Puccini and Mascagni when it came to writing music that simply basks in the glow of... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The conductor here is Lance Friedel, an American who has a fairly wide repertoire that embraces the likes of Carl Nielsen and Bohuslav Martinů. Is Friedel slumming it here? Perhaps, but seconds... — MusicWeb International, April 2015 More…

Dego’s fine-spun tonal purity and spotless intonational poise are exceptionally beguiling…Wolf-Ferrari’s melodic invention is not especially memorable, yet Dego’s seductive phrasing and infectious... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…Gianandrea Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic weight and pace these often featherlight textures to perfection, particularly in the several delightful song-based movements with plucked or strummed... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Noseda] approaches each item with a relish and stylistic certainty that makes you sit up and listen. The playing, also, is the equivalent of what one might hear in a major opera house, and... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Haider continues his excellent series of orchestral works by Wolf-Ferrari, beginning here with the composer’s colourful portrait of his home city. Wolf-Ferrari can do blood and thunder, but... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

A very welcome recording of WolfFerrari’s perpetually underrated, richly Romantic orchestral music. Alban Beikircher is a lively soloist in the Concerto, though the orchestral sound is occasionally... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2021, 3 out of 5 stars More…