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The another gaze !

Hiram Gomez Pardo | Valencia, Venezuela | 01/14/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Italy has always been a powerful source of inspiration , specially for foreign composers.



Let's take around a brief review : Tcahaikovsky `s Souvenir d'Florence and Italian Caprice ; Berlioz `s Harold , Liszt `s pilgrimage `s years and Mendelssohn `s Italian Symphony , seem confirm it .



When Charpentier won the Prix of Rome in 1887 the spell began . He wrote five Impressions d' Italie which quickly made his name were known all over Europe .



The interesting point to remark is that if Berlioz influenced him , Charpentier turned his mind to Bizet in the Second Movement : At the fountain .



This is a prodigious but sincere resemblance of this unforgettable and land .



The tonal richness and the sumptuous texture given by the composer makes of this performance unique and sublime .



If you exclude a famous performing of Albert Wolff in the sixties there is no other version in the options `s market.



Historical document .

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