c d. Rose

Tom [ Scherman, of the Little Orchestra Society ] came to me and said, “Hey Kubik, I’m being pestered all the time by the pianist in my orchestra, Frank Glazer, for a solo appearance, and by Bob Nagel, my trumpet player, and the principal violist [ Theodore Israel ] .” And so Tom, figuring to kill three birds with one stone said, “Can’t you write me a piece for piano, viola, trumpet, and orchestra, and I’ll have my three players do the solo parts and they’ll get off of my back?” I said, “Sure.” And since it came within a month or so after I’d finished recording the score to the film C-Man, which had exactly those three solo instruments, I just re-wrote it as the Symphony Concertante. Don’t do that thinking that you’re going to save time. It’s twice as hard, it’s ten times as hard, than to just write a new piece.

Ceci est l'épopée drolatique d'une cuisinière qui n'a jamais eu peur de rien. Personnage loufoque et truculent, Rose a survécu aux abjections de cet affreux XXe siècle qu'elle a traversé sans rien perdre de sa sensualité ni de sa joie de vivre. Entre deux amours, elle a tout subi : le génocide arménien, les horreurs du nazisme, les délires du maoïsme. Mais, chaque fois, elle a ressuscité pour repartir de l'avant. Grinçant et picaresque, ce livre raconte les aventures extraordinaires d'une centenaire scandaleuse qui a un credo : "Si l'Enfer, c'est l'Histoire, le Paradis, c'est la vie".

Jordi Savall - Giulio Caccini (c. 1550-1618) - Le Nuove Musiche (1984) {Deutsche Harmonia Mundi GD 77164}
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Classical / Renaissance / Baroque

Giulio Caccini (c.1550-1618) was born in Rome, and soon took up an important musical post in Florence under the Medicis. He was widely famous, and apparently a very controversial figure, having boasted of inventing the solo chordally-accompanied song. His two collections entited Nuove Musiche of 1602 & 1614 are certainly important to this development, and Caccini was one of a handful of composers to first work in this new style. However, it had become common practice to perform older madrigals in this way via intabulations, so any notion of invention is hazy at best. Nonetheless, Caccini's detailed ornaments given to the printed vocal part are a landmark in composition.