Paganini & Italian Genius Marco Rogliano

• Niccolò Paganini (1782 - 1840):
• 1 Paganini: Variations on "Nel cor più non mi sento", MS 44 (Guhr Version) 03:31
• 2 Paganini: Alla spagnola 00:34
• 3 Paganini: Valtz in A Major, MS 80 01:44
• 4 Paganini: Canon Duet No. 1 in A Major for 2 Violins 01:20
• 5 Paganini: Canon Duet No. 2 in B-Flat Major for 2 Violins 01:47
• 6 Paganini: Valtz No. 1 in F Major for Solo Violin 00:45
• 7 Paganini: Valtz No. 2 in E Major for Solo Violin 00:46
• 8 Paganini: Valtz No. 3 in A Major for Solo Violin 00:48
• 9 Paganini: Valtz No. 4 in G Major for Solo Violin 00:51
• 10 Paganini: Valtz No. 5 in A Major for Solo Violin 00:52
• 11 Paganini: Caprice d'adieu, MS 68 03:20
• Onorio de Vito (1792 - 1844):
• 12 Vito: 3 Variations & Coda on the Neapolitan Folk Song “Io te voglio bene assaje” 03:54
• Giuseppe Austri (1823 - 1884):
• 13 Austri: 2 Caprices for Violin, Op. 9: No. 1 in G Major, Allegro moderato 01:50
• Ferrara Bernardo (1810 - 1882): 6 Preludes for Violin (Excerpts):
• 14 Bernardo: 6 Preludes for Violin (Excerpts): No. 3 in G Major, Scherzo e cantabile 04:30
• 15 Bernardo: 6 Preludes for Violin (Excerpts): No. 5 in D Major, The Stream 02:23
• 16 Bernardo: 6 Preludes for Violin (Excerpts): No. 6 in A Major, Introduzione & Scherzo fantastico 03:09
• Ferdinando Giorgetti (1796 - 1867): 6 Violin Studies, Op. 28 (Excerpts):
• 17 Giorgetti: 6 Violin Studies, Op. 28 (Excerpts): No. 5 in D Minor, Prelude & Caprice 02:49
• 18 Giorgetti: 6 Violin Studies, Op. 28 (Excerpts): No. 2 in A Major, Allegro moderato 03:52
• 19 Giorgetti: 6 Violin Studies, Op. 28 (Excerpts): No. 6, Allegro un poco mosso 02:13
• Carlo Bignami (1808 - 1848): 12 Violin Caprices (Excerpts):
• 20 Bignami: 12 Violin Caprices (Excerpts): No. 6 in D Major, Allegro 03:52
• 21 Bignami: 12 Violin Caprices (Excerpts): No. 4 in E-Flat Major, Allegro assai 01:47
• 22 Bignami: 12 Violin Caprices (Excerpts): No. 12 in D Minor, Allegro con forza assai 02:48
• Total Runtime 49:25

Info for Paganini & Italian Genius

Paganinis works for solo violin are among the most important and demanding in the repertoire. In addition to his famed Caprices Op. 1, Paganini wrote a series of characterful solo pieces that reveal his melodic and rhythmic gifts. Those selected here are little-known. Some, such as Alla Spagnola, the five waltzes and the Duetti, have only recently been rediscovered. Paganinis influence on Italian composers can be heard in the works he inspired from leading contemporaries and colleagues, where their preludes, caprices and études show the stylistic breadth and originality of Italian virtuosi. Violinist Marco Rogliano has appeared at the world's most important venues, including New Yorks Carnegie Hall, the Grosser Saal of Berlins Philharmonie, the Herkulessaal in Munich, and the Ciajkovskij Hall in Moscow. Particularly committed to Italian violin repertoire of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, his discography includes many world premieres of works by composers such as Paganini, Rolla, Respighi, Zanella and Sciarrino.

Marco Rogliano, violin

Marco Rogliano
After a very early start of his musical studies through his family (which has a long tradition of stringed instrument players), Marco Rogliano got his Violin degree at the "S. Cecilia Conservatory" in Rome (where he was born in 1967) under the guidance of Antonio Salvatore.

Particularly meaningful for his interpretative education has been his following work at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Ruggiero Ricci, the Chigiana Academy in Siena with Riccardo Brengola and the Stauffer Academy in Cremona with Salvatore Accardo. He soon attained international recognition, receiving prizes in various competitions, including the "V.Bucchi" Contest in Rome (1988), the "Young Soloists Selection" in Helsingborg(Sweden-1989), the "47^ International ARD Competition" in Munich(1998)and the "East and West Artists Intern. Selection" in New York(2002). Rogliano made his first international debut as a soloist in 1989 performing the Sibelius Violin Concerto in Sweden with the Helsingborg Symphony Orch. conducted by Ari Rasilainen.

Afterward he has played with Orchestras such as Moscow Radio Symph. at the Ciajkovskij Hall, Berliner Symphoniker at the Berlin Philharmony Hall, RAI Symph.Orch. in Turin, Sicily Symph.Orch. in Palermo, Italian Chamber Orch., Pomeriggi Musicali Symph.Orch. in Milan with conductors like Lior Shambadal, Gunter Neuhold, Salvatore Accardo, Franco Petracchi, Marco Angius, Tito Ceccherini.

In July 2009 he made his debut in China playing the Paganini Violin Concerto n.4 with the Macao Symph.Orch. for the Season Closing Concert. Furthermore he played for recitals in famous international contests like the S. Petersburg Philharmony Hall, the Weill Recital Hall at the New York Carnegie Hall, the Tokyo Casals Hall and Asahi Hall, the Munich Prinzregententheater and Herkulessaal, the S. Cecilia Academy Hall, the Alla Scala theatre, the Parma and Turin "Teatro Regio". He has collaborated with artists such as Reiko Watanabe, Ingolf Turban, Bruno Giuranna, Danilo Rossi, Enrico Dindo, Hansjorg Schellenberger, Alexander Lonquich, Gianluca Luisi, Roberto Cominati, Andrea Lucchesini, Shuku Iwasaki, Koichiro Arada, Lucio Gallo. His performances have been broadcasted by RAI, Radio France, Bayerischer Rundfunk.

He won the "Diapason d’Or" with his recording of "Allegoria della Notte" for Vl. and orch. by S. Sciarrino for Kairos (more details here), and his 25 Caprices by N. Paganini for Tactus (the second italian after Accardo) were acclaimed by magazines like Fanfare, Gramophone, Diapason (5 stars) and Le Monde de la Musique (4 stars). Furthermore he's dedicated particular attention on bringing out many italian rarities for violin in XIXth and XXth century, recording for the first time the Humoreske and Leggenda for Violin and Orchestra by O. Respighi for Inedita, the complete works with piano by O. Respighi, the complete works with harp by L.M. Tedeschi, the Violin Sonata and Poemetto by A. Zanella, the Four Seasons by A.Vivaldi together with "Seasons" by A.Guarnieri (best CD Amadeus) for Tactus.

Other important productions were the Naxos CD of the Piano Quintet op.20 by Thuille and the Two Violin Sonatas and Violin Suite op.14 by Ch. Sinding for ASV classical acclaimed by magazines like Fanfare, American Records Guide, BBC Music (4 stars) and many others.

He's been particularly appreciated by many contemporary composers dedicating their works to him like S. Sciarrino, A. Guarnieri, G. Manca, G. Taglietti, C. Galante, M. Dall’Ongaro, C. Ambrosini, C. De Pirro, D. Nicolau, F. Luque, G. D’Angiolini.

He is presently Chairman of Chamber Music and Violin at the "G.B.Pergolesi"Conservatory of Fermo and Violin teacher at the Pavia Music Academy with collegues like Danilo Rossi (viola) and Enrico Dindo (cello).

He plays a violin by Nicola Bergonzi (Cremona,1790) trusted from the Maggini Foundation of Langenthal in Switzerland.

His last important CD releases are dedicated to rarities like the music with piano by Liszt (A. Dindo, piano) for the magazine Amadeus, the first recording of the complete works with piano by Thuille for Naxos (G. Luisi, piano) and the First Recording of Sciarrino "Stagioni Artificiali" for Vl. and ensemble (M. Angius, conductor) with Stradivarius.

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