Word: alessandro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alessandro Scarlatti: Sonata a Quattro (New Music Quartet; Bartok). A pre-Bach genius (1660-1725) who specialized in operas and cantatas, Scarlatti was one of the first to write a real string quartet. This one, full of surprising glints and glows, is played to perfection by one of the U.S.'s finest ensembles. On the same disk: quartets by Tartini and Boccherini...
...BETROTHED (591 pp.) - Alessandro Manzoni (translated by Archibald Colquhoun]-Dutton...
Legend has it that Sir Walter Scott once met Alessandro Manzoni and fervently congratulated him on his historical novel, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed). Manzoni replied modestly that the book owed everything to Scott. "In that case," said Sir Walter, "this is my finest work...
...mother nor his grandparents can read or write. His father was captured by the Russians on the Don nine years before, and, like 60,000 other Italian soldiers, has not been heard of since. None of the other ten relatives who share the poverty-ridden farmhouse in Sant' Alessandro had ever sent or received a postcard in their lives...
Debussy: Le Martyre de St.-Sébastién (Frances Yeend, soprano; Miriam Stewart, soprano; Anna Kaskas, contralto; Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra and Chorale, Victor Alessandro conducting; Allegro, 2 sides LP). Composed to a "mystery" of D'Annunzio for Dancer Ida Rubinstein, Le Martyre (1911) was itself martyred in an unsuccessful play, is rarely performed. It contains many a strange and beautiful bar, stands pretty well on its own in this first recording. Performance and recording: good...