Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Giancarlo Andretta, Domenico Nordio

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto op. 64 and Symphony no. 4 op. 90, with Domenico Nordio and Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto conducted by Giancarlo Andretta.

Formats and editions

• Hi-Res WAV file 88.2kHz · 24bit — CVLD045

Musicians

Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto
Giancarlo Andretta (conductor)
Domenico Nordio (violin)

Recording and production

Recorded at Auditorium Pollini, Padua, on 21 and 22 August 2000, using Prism Sound Dream AD2 converter at 96 kHz · 24 bit. Marco Lincetto: Schoeps microphones and Dromos cables. Fabio Framba: Sonic Solutions USP digital workstation.

Track listing

Concerto in E minor op. 64 for violin and orchestra

1 Allegro con fuoco 12’46”
2 Andante 8’46”
3 Allegro molto vivace 6’34”
Symphony n. 4 in A major op.90 “Italiana”

4 Allegro vivace 11’20”
5 Andante con moto 6’11”
6 Con moto moderato 6’59”
7 Saltarello, Presto 5’30”
Total time 57’59”

Programme notes

Introductory thoughts by Radu Lidjienko
Our mind is the most inaccessible place in the Universe. It seems to be a black box, into which a little bit of everything enters, haphazardly, often without any order, and from which completely different things emerge. The fascination that some special product of the human mind exerts on us is partly due to the aura of mystery that surrounds the human mind itself. How can it be that someone came up with the idea of producing something so perfect, so complex? How is it that a rare human being produces perfection, complexity, and beauty, given that the norm of human beings spends their entire lives in the most absolute creative constipation, rarely, and laboriously, giving birth to things that convey nothing to us? Our understanding of these phenomena is flawed by the fundamental error that consists of separating human beings from everything else, which we simply imagine as the backdrop for our deeds as superior beings. Is an equatorial forest, with its scents, its colors, and all the organisms that together contribute to keeping it alive, perfect and complex as it is, a work of art in its own way? Conversely, is it not entirely "natural" that some special men produce music like that you will hear on this CD? By restoring us all to nature, to the whole that contains us, and by abandoning the fascinating idea of the black box, which only works for brilliant beings, we would lose nothing, and instead, we could observe the perfection of the design on a butterfly's wings with the same spirit with which we observe a painting, above all with the same respect, and also spending much less, as long as there are butterflies flying freely in the meadows. Nature, at this point in its purposeless history, has produced everything that exists today, including the genius of those who conceived this music. That genius worked so that his fellow men were swept by the same mysterious wave that had originated these sounds in him. Nature has also produced the CD you hold in your hand. It has produced the extraordinary and inexplicable talent of the soloist, the conductor, and the orchestra itself. Complexity and perfection are in the mind of those who conceive the music, as well as in the reality of the infinite facts that contribute to building the path that has brought this CD to you. The musicians who play here have dedicated a significant part of their lives to allowing themselves to be traversed by the musical ideas of a genius composer. We are faced with an equally demanding task: to enjoy, to understand, and to enjoy understanding. I believe this is the greatest benefit offered to those who have the opportunity to belong to the human species.

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